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Provide your answers to the following questions in a 2-page paper. Use APA Editorial Format for all citations and references used.
1. What should the "culture and environment of safety" look like when preparing and administering medications?
2. Discuss a common breach of medication administration.
3. Identify three (3) factors that lead to errors in documentation related to medication administration.
4. What can I do to prevent medication errors?
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Culture and Environment of safety in Medication Administration
A culture and environment of safety should consider elements beyond the basics. A
safety culture should have effective interaction among medication administration processes and
structures, health providers' attitudes and perceptions, and individual safety-related behaviors.
Safety culture has effective safety management systems, psychologically and behaviorally
willing and ready leaders and workers to create and maintain safety. The development of safety
cultures starts with the commitment of leadership to safety (Page, 2004). Leaders have the
strongest ability to influence and unite all groups through vision articulation, effective
communication, training, rewards and incentives, oversight, and close oversight to patient safety.
Open communication between management and workforce enhance accountability to safety by
sparking positive change. Also, organizations should have solid safety procedures to shape
workers attitudes and behaviors. Therefore, culture and environment of safety have safety
systems and processes that represent the experience and feelings of workers through their input.
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