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Topic for this paper. Title-Medications error
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A medication error is a preventable adverse effect of a patient taking the wrong medication or dosage, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. Medication errors can be a source of serious patient harm, including death.
Potential Intervention Approaches:
- – Medical staff education
- – Packaging improvements
- – Patient medication safety training
Keywords for Articles:
medication administration, medication errors, medication safety
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Outline on Medication Error
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➢ Introduction
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➢ Article Review
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➢ Annotated Bibliography
4. 7th Paragraph
➢ Conclusion
Running head: MEDICATION ERROR
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Medication Error
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MEDICATION ERROR
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Introduction
A medication error is defined as a lack of success in treating patients that leads to potential
side effects such as death. There exist many ways in which medication errors can occur. The
most common form of medication errors occurs when deciding what prescription should be
given, leading to prescription errors. Other forms include omission, improper dosage, wrong
time, and drugs. Even though medication errors are serious, they are not common; thus are
referred to as trivial. It is important to note that system failures result in minor errors that could
be serious; thus, they have to be detected. Detection of medication errors is important since
healthcare improves and maintains health through treatment prevention and other health
improvement practices. My interest in the topic comes from my understanding of healthcare.
Therefore, healthcare improvement has to incorporate the detection and prevention of medication
errors. Medication error has often been known to interfere with the medical practitioner's
profession and harm patients. Becoming a medical practitioner is important to me. However,
while training, trainees often make small medical related errors, including medication errors such
as prescription mistakes. While working in a healthcare facility, the management established a
chart review that encouraged observation and direct reporting by medical practitioners and
patients once they notice an error in a prescription (World Health Organization, 2016).
Article review
The first article related to the topic is called “Factors associated with medication
administration errors and wh...
