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GAPS IN PRACTICE
Discussion: Discuss Gaps in Practice
One of the most significant practice concerns in clinical settings happens to be medication errors. From the onset, it would be prudent to note that medication errors are described by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA (2019) as any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the healthcare professional, patient, or consumer. The focus of this discussion front will be errors attributable to healthcare professionals. The negative impact of medication errors in as far as patient outcomes and wellbeing are concerned is well documented. For instance, as the FDA (2019) further indicates, medication errors could result in disability, life threatening situations, and even death. Towards this end, the relevance of deploying strategies to rein in this particular concern cannot be overstated.
In the past, there have been a few instances of medication errors in my facility. A recent assessment of the concern indicated that a huge percentage of the said errors is concentrated in drug prescription, followed closely by errors during drug dispensation. The issue is not specific to my facility. This is to say that available data indicates that the concern affects many other healthcare organizations across the country. Indeed, according to data availed in the year 2016, medication errors were identified as a leading cause of...…regarding intravenous medication errors (Abukhader and Abukhader, 2020).
In the final analysis, it would also be prudent to note that in addition to the implementation of the medical safety education program as has been highlighted elsewhere in this text, there may be need to factor in a number of other considerations that are of equal relevance. For instance, in a study seeking to explore the most effective strategies to rein in medication errors, Gorgich, Barfoshan, Ghoreishi, and Yaghoobi (2016) indicate that increased workload happens to be a rather common cause of errors of this kind in healthcare settings. Towards this end, there may be need to address a myriad of other factors that have the potential to trigger…
References
Abukhader, A., & Abukhader, K. (2020). Effect of Medication Safety Education Programon Intensive Care Nurses’ Knowledge Regarding Medication Errors. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 8, 135-147.
Cohen, M.R. (2007). Medication Errors. American Pharmacist Association.
Gorgich, E.A., Barfoshan, S., Ghoreishi, G. & Yaghoobi, M. (2016). Investigating the Causes of Medication Errors and Strategies to Prevention of Them from Nurses and Nursing Student Viewpoint. Glob J Health Sci., 8(8), 220-227.
John Hopkins Medicine (2016). Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us
U.S. Food and Drug Administration – FDA (2019). Working to Reduce Medication Errors. https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-consumers-and-patients-drugs/working-reduce-medication-errors
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