Mitigating Nursing Errors in Medication Administration.
Uduiguomen, Oluwatobiloba Folakemi (2024)
Uduiguomen, Oluwatobiloba Folakemi
2024
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024111127808
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Medication Administration Error, refers to any avoidable mistake during the treatment process that harms patients, potentially leading to disability or death. These errors impact human relationships, erode trust in the healthcare system, and can be life threatening. Medication errors world wide incur an estimated annual cost of $42 billion United States Dollars. Nurses are usually the first course of contact and as well the last call of contact. Nurses are involved in the administration of medication during hospital stay and advice on medication administration when discharging. Mitigating nursing errors in medication administration will improve patient trust with the healthcare service, reduce financial expenditures, increases patient safety, improves patient outcomes and provides a better work environment. The aim of this literature review was to discover the interventions to mitigate nursing errors in medicine administration. The purpose was to acknowledge interventions of mitigating nursing errors in medicine administration for nursing staff. The research was conducted as a literature review by utilizing Cinahl and PubMed databases. 11 articles met the predetermined inclusive criteria and were included in the review. The data extracted were organized to determine themes and sub-themes. This literature review found that nursing errors occurred due to failures in ensuring the 7 Right´s in medication administration. However, these failures were mitigated by organizational strategies such as, implementing policies, providing educative campaigns, providing reasonable human resources as well as providing a non-punitive safety reporting system. Furthermore, nursing personnel and strategies such as, nurse´s attitude, adherence to guidelines, no interruption zone and situation awareness were some of the methods used in mitigating nursing errors in medication administration. Targeted interventions such as standardization of protocols, staff education, electronic health records significantly reduce medication errors. Furthermore, recommendations such as, mini reminder flash cards could be distributed to nurses and advocation of additional Rights to medication administration as well as, improvements on nursing workloads and resource availability.