The document discusses medication errors and safe medication practices, including defining medication errors, causes of errors, and policies and procedures to prevent errors. Key policies include identifying patients, checking medications against orders, monitoring effects, documenting properly, and reporting any errors. The goal is to ensure the highest quality medications are safely administered as prescribed to prevent wrong drugs and adverse reactions.
Medication error- Etiology and strategic methods to reduce the incidence of M...Dr. Jibin Mathew
A medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer
Hello Everyone :)
I hope this presentation will help us to:
Understand the system-based causes of medication errors.
Describe a model for a systems approach to error analysis.
Identify weaknesses or failures in key elements of the medication-use system.
Select effective risk-reduction strategies to prevent medication errors.
Medication error- Etiology and strategic methods to reduce the incidence of M...Dr. Jibin Mathew
A medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer
Hello Everyone :)
I hope this presentation will help us to:
Understand the system-based causes of medication errors.
Describe a model for a systems approach to error analysis.
Identify weaknesses or failures in key elements of the medication-use system.
Select effective risk-reduction strategies to prevent medication errors.
Role of the pharmacist in medication safety.Subash321
Role of the pharmacist in medication safety. In this you know about the medication safety, medication error & how to prevent medication error. And the role of the pharmacists in medication safety.
Nurses must administer numerous drugs daily in a safe and efficient manner. The nurse should administer drugs in accord with nursing standards of practice and agency policy. The safe storage and maintenance of an adequate supply of drugs are other responsibilities of the nurse.
The nurse documents the actual administration of medications on the medication administration record. The MAR is a medical record form that contains the drug’s name, dose, route, and frequency of administration
Medication safety and Prevention of Medication errors.pptxsats81
The topic is related to pharmacology in nursing. The topic concretely described about common medical errors in medication prescription and administration .The topic also include how we can prevent medication errors at different stages of emdication dispensing.
A medical error is a preventable adverse effect of care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient.
May occur at any time, from the prescription to consumption of the medicines by the patient
The Role of Pharmacist in Patient SafetyArwa M. Amin
Module: Pharmacy Professional Skills
Coordinator: Dr. Arwa M. Amin Mostafa
Academic Level: Undergraduate, B.Pharmacy
School: Dubai Pharmacy College
Year of first presented in Class: 2018
This presentation is for Educational purpose. It has no commercial value associated with it.
For proper use of medication rational drug use (RDU) is raised. Requirements of rational drug use and it's different steps and roles of pharmacists are described here.
brief review on clinical pharmacy, drug information centre & patient safety program
The lecture was presented at Al-Mahmoudiya General Hospital as part of the training course for fresh appointed pharmacist at 16/5/2023 at 11 & 15/5/2023
Clinical errors by nursing / paramedic staffMohit Changani
Nursing staff care is very critical for the management of any patient. Nursing staff need to be specific and punctual in providing care. This presentation deals with common clinical errors that might be occurring on the care provided by nursing or paramedic staff
This presentation is prepared to enhance the adherence of patient to their specific medication as prescribed by the physician and the role of pharmacist in improving the adherence of patient to their medication including various factors influence the adherence ,methods to measure adherence and methods to improve adherence .
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Medication errors & safe medication practices
any incorrect or wrongful administration of a medication,
such as
a mistake in dosage
or route of administration,
failure to prescribe
or administer the correct drug
or formulation for a particular disease
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• or condition, use of outdated drugs,
• failure to observe the correct time for
administration of the drug,
• or lack of awareness of adverse effects of
certain drug combinations.
• Causes of medication error may include
difficulty in reading handwritten orders,
• confusion about different drugs with similar
names,
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• POLICY AND PROCEDURE FOR
ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATIONS:
AIM: To provide uniform guidelines for
administering and charting of medications and
• treatments.
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Always Wash hands before and after
administration of any form of medications and
between patients.
• Identify the correct patient and confirm their
identity before giving the medication
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• If patient is conscious explain procedure to the patient
(Eg:" im going to give you an injection...)
Try as much as possible not to bring pain or discomfort to
patient during administeration of medication (no
harsh,jerky movements)
Monitor the effects of the medicine administered and document
in the nursing records
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• Incase a prescribed drug is discontinued,
write "DISCONTINUED" in red pen along
with the date and hand over to other
nurses,make sure physicians orders are
followed.
• Always write correct drug name with correct
dosage on prescription pad and date on
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• Identify the correct patient and confirm their
identity before giving the medication
Check the drug at the site of preparation
(eg:medication trolley) along with dosage,expiry
of drug etc. Again recheck this information at
patients bedside before administering the drug.
• Ensure any preliminary checks and
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• Aim:To ensure that IDS Pharmacy Staff handle
drug recalls consistently.
Rationale: to prevent wrong drug and adverse
drug reaction.
Procedure:
MEDICATION MUST BE OF THE HIGHEST
QUALITY:Only medication of highest quality
dispensed from the Pharmacy. Any drug of
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• Aim: this policy is to describe the Medication
Error Reporting procedure.
Rationale: To prevent risks associated with
the therapeutic
• use of medications.
• Appropriate identification of an error and the
documentation, assessment of medication
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• If patient is conscious explain procedure to
the patient (Eg:" im going to give you an
injection...)
Try as much as possible not to bring pain or
discomfort to patient during administeration of
medication (no harsh,jerky movements)
• Monitor the effects of the medicine
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• before giving any high risk medication,verify
with the doctor on duty.
Only prescribe medications as per doctors
written orders,make sure documented orders
are signed by doctor with correct date and
name.
• Written orders for medications chould be
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• Never miss time to give drug,if drug is not
given on time ,strictly do not give double
dose. write "not given" in medication
chart/register and explain the reason of not
giving during handover.
• If medication is prepared and part of the dose
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• wrong dose, wrong route, omitted dose, extra dose, medications ordered
to be
given STAT/NOW that are given late, and medications not given at the
ordered
time interval, e.g., ordered every 6 hours and given
late.Physician/prescriber notification must be documented in the medical
record using
• the Provider Contact Note (Ucare) or other appropriate note.
Reporting
Medication errors will be reported using the Incident Reporting form
according Incident ReportingPolicy ref ( )
It includesName of the Medication involved
• Type of error
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• Examples of Errors
Prescribing: Illegible handwriting or unclear orders
Non-compliance with order-writing guidelines
Wrong order form used
Therapeutically incorrect orders
Decimal point errors
Documenting -Improper therapeutic screening of order at time of taking
order off by nursing or pharmacy (dose, allergy check)
Incorrect/incomplete transcription of order on MAR or Kardex
Not transcribed onto MAR or Kardex
Pharmacy transcription error
Incorrect documentation of medication administered
Dispensing -Medication not available due to
delays in sending order,
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• Check if it is necessary for the medication to
be given before or after food/fluid
• Written orders for medications should be
clear and legible.
