THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO DESCRIBE MANY MEDICATION ERRORS AND HOW TO PREVENT PHARMACIST FROM MAKING THE ERRORS. THE ARTICLE DOCUMENTED FIVE YEARS OF MEDICATION ERROR PREVENTION RESULTS, SUMMARIZING ADHERENCE TO THE ALBERTA CANCER BOARD’S MEDICATION ERROR PREVENTION POLICIES. FOR FIVE YEARS, A MEDICATION ERROR PREVENTION DOCUMENTATION WAS FAXED TO THE PHARMACY DEPARTMENT AT EACH OF THE CANCER CENTERS OF THE ALBERTA CANCER BOARD.
RESULTS OF THE SURVEY WERE LOOKED BY THE PHARMACIST RESPONSIBLE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE. Cusano, Frances L; Chambers, Carole R; Summach, D Lee. Journal of Oncology.
Pharmacy Practice 15. 2 (Jun 2009): 87-93. The Alberta Cancer Board is consisted of many cancer centers in Alberta, Canada. The Cancer center prevention committee developed a medication error prevention survey on preventing medication error policies. Every year this is sent to the pharmacy departments of all the cancer centers. MEDICATION ERRORS: DON’T LET THEM HAPPEN TO YOU (2010) RETRIEVED FROM Medication errors:
Don’t let them happen to you THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT A CRITICAL CARE NURSE WHO TRIES TO CATCH UP WITH HER MORNING MEDICATIONS AND DIDN’T READ THE PATIENT CHART OR NOTE THAT IS INTUBATED AND MEDICATION REQUIRES NOT TO BE CRUSHED, INSTEAD SHE CRUSHED THE PATIENT MEDICATION AND ADMINISTERED IT INTO HIS NASOGASTRIC AND THE PATIENT END UP DYING.
ALL BECAUSE OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS NOT READING THE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION RECORD. MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION IS A COMPLEX MULTISTEP PROCESS THAT ENCOMPASSES PRESCRIBING, TRANSCRIBING, DISPENSING, AND ADMINISTERING DRUGS AND MONITORING PATIENT RESPONSE.
ATTITUDES TO REPORTING MEDICATION ERROR AMONG DIFFERING HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS SARVADIKAR, AJIT; PRESCOTT, GORDON; WILLIAMS, DAVID. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY 66.
8 (AUG 2010): 843-53. RETRIEVED FROM: PROQUEST THIS ARTICLE IS VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT REPORTING MEDICATION ERRORS IN A HEALTHCARE ARE. REPORTING MEDICATION ERRORS CAN SERVE AS AN IMPORTANT TOOL FOR IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY. THIS ARTICLE IS AIMED TO INVESTIGATE ATTITUDES OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS (DOCTORS, NURSES, AND PHARMACISTS) IN REPORTING MEDICATION ERRORS.
THERE WERE MANY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS WORKING THAT WERE SURVEYED. THEY WERE GIVEN QUESTIONNAIRES USING TWO DIFFERENT CLINICAL SCENARIOS ORAL AND INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION OF A DRUG AND FOUR QUESTIONS WITH AN ASCENDING ORDER OF WORSENING PATIENT OUTCOME. THEY ALSO USED A LIKERT SCALE RANGING FROM 1 (UNLIKELY) TO 5 (LIKELY) TO DESCRIBE THE LIKELIHOOD OF REPORTING A MEDICATION ERROR. REFERENCES Medication Error (2000).
Medication error prevention by pharmacists – Retrieved from ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source pg. 21 ATTITUDES TO REPORTING MEDICATION ERROR AMONG DIFFERING HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS SARVADIKAR, AJIT; PRESCOTT, GORDON; WILLIAMS, DAVID. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY 66. 8 (AUG 2010): 843-53. RETRIEVED FROM: PROQUEST.