PPT-Safety Medication errors

Chapter Topics Medical errors Medication errors Prescription filling process in community and hospital pharmacy practices Medication error prevention Medication error reporting systems Learning Objectives. Group 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9qBK3Infsw. History of Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA). In 1994, inspired by a nurse from . Colmeg-Oneil. Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) . Their system became the model for the BCMA. Medication Order Writing & the “Do Not Use” Abbreviations. To enhance understanding of the linkages between medication safety and communication.. To ensure that all healthcare professional and associated staff are familiar with the “DO NOT USE: Dangerous Abbreviations and Symbols, Dose Designations” Materials from the Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety.. Spreading Medication Reconciliation Improvements. Hospital. Presenter. Month YYYY. Continuity is an Issue in Health Care. 10-67% of medication histories contain at least one error. 1. Incomplete medication histories at the time of admission have been cited as the cause of at least 27% of prescribing errors in hospital. S:. Recently, we have had . several IV . medication errors in the SICU with continuous drips. B:. Several factors related to these errors, including:. • Verifying the correct medication is hung. Risk Reduction . How do you define a medication error?. “any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or client harm while the medication is in the control of the healthcare professional, client, or consumer.”. Are Key to . Keeping Kidney Patients Safe. On average, dialysis patients take 6 to 10 different medications each day.. Most dialysis patients report that they only “sometimes” discuss all of their medications with their doctor.. . Youness R. Karodeh, B.Sc., Pharm.D., R.Ph. .. Assistant Dean, Associate Professor and . Director of Nontraditional Doctor of Pharmacy Program. Howard University, College of Pharmacy. Washington, D.C. Module 12. Medication Errors. The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention defines a medication error as follows: any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of health care professional, patient, or consumer. Objectives. After reading this chapter, you will be able to: . Identify problems patients would experience with over-the-counter purchases and take appropriate action to intervene.. Identify commonly prescribed drugs. . By. Tsneem. . Tagelsir. . Khider. Medication safety. What is “medication error”?. Error . . Failure. of a planned action to be completed as intended. Medication error . Any . preventable event . H. Gwen Bartlett, BS Pharmacy, . PharmD. , . BCPS, BCCCP. Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice. Cardiology Specialty. Husson. University. Bangor, ME . 1. Disclosure. I. . have no relevant financial . Philip A Routledge. James Coulson. All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre. Cardiff, Wales, UK. Case Study. A 44 year-old woman had a urinary tract infection and was prescribed the antibiotic nitrofurantoin for 10 days. Two weeks later she noticed numbness, pins and needles and tingling of the lower limbs up to mid-thigh. She was examined by a neurologist three months later, who stated that this was likely to have been a peripheral neuropathy related to the previous course of nitrofurantoin. She is referred to you (as a clinical pharmacologist) for advice.. Rationale. medication use has become increasingly complex in recent times. medication error is a major cause of preventable patient harm. as future doctors, you will have an important role in making medication use safe. Admire Sankoh. GNUR: 530 Utilize Research-Evidenced Based Practice . Facilitator: Dr. Horton. September 15, 2015. Title, Author, and Abstract. . The title is concise, but non-specific. The title is attractive to individuals that are conducting research on the topic of medication errors.