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In seeking to administer drugs, nurses ought to be guided by the five medical administration rights. These are patient, time, dose, drug, and route (You, Choe, Park, Kim, and Son, 2015). One issue that I consider to be of great concern in my practice is medicating patients late leading to noncompliance. This happens to be one of the more significant errors in the administration of medications in a healthcare setting, with the other errors being wrong dose and wrong medication. When nurses fail to administer drugs to patients as prescribed – in the right dosage and at the right time - such an action gets in the way of the full realization of drug benefits. According to Stokowski (2012), the rule of the thumb when it comes to the administration of medications has been within half-an-hour before or after the time scheduled for administration.In seeking to locate evidence-based practices that address the concern highlighted herein, this text took into consideration reliable and credible research sources. The credibility of the said sources was assessed on the basis of the qualifications and credentials of the authors, comprehensiveness of the information presented, and the accuracy of presented data. Well-researched and presented texts citing verifiable sources were taken into...
For instance, Berdot at al. (as cited in Stokowski 2012) “found an overall medication error rate of 27.6%, but only 7.5% when wrong-time errors were excluded.” Also, in their observation of more than 30 healthcare installations, Barker et al. (as cited in Stokowski 2012) found that 19% of the total number of medication doses administered involved a minimum of 1 error – with approximately half of these falling under wrong-time errors. Medication errors could be triggered by a wide range of factors.
Studies conducted in the past have clearly indicated that such factors as disruptions and interruptions, general work environment, and failure to maintain ward stock ware are to blame for wrong-time errors (Keers, Williams, Cooke, and Ashcroft, 2013). In that regard, therefore, healthcare organizations ought to take into consideration these factors in an attempt to take corrective and remedial measures meant to minimize instances of patients being offered medications in a format that is not timely, thereby leading to noncompliance. In a study titled Perceptions Regarding Medication Administration Errors Among…
nursing competencies, outline what they are, and how they will influence the trajectory of my nursing career path. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the Quality and Safety Education in Nursing have put together a joint document that outlines six different competencies associated with nursing (QSEN, 2012). These six competencies are quality improvement, safety, teamwork and collaboration, patient-centered care, evidence-based practice and informatics. Quality improvement is associated
Evidence-Based Practice: Systems Theory and Diffusion of Innovation Theories to Healthcare Delivery and Nursing Practice The ability to acquire accurate and timely information enhances nursing practice and patient outcomes. Search engines and healthcare nursing databases operate in different ways, and it is necessary for healthcare professionals to understand how to access and efficiently use both public and professional resources. Because today the public has greater access to electronic health information, healthcare
Evidence-Based Practice Task a: Nursing Research Journal in APA-Format Chaney, D. & Glacken, M. (2004). Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Research Findings in the Irish Practice Setting. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 13, 731-740. The five areas of research, background information, literature review, methodology discussion, data analysis, and conclusion in the journal article. Areas of Research Report Issues Addressed The researchers used information from previous studies like Treacy & Hyde, 2003 to create background for the
The study involved giving adolescents a questionnaire to determine if they perceived their weight and appearance with accuracy; most females overestimated their weight and most males underestimated their weights. However, this was just 35% of the participants. The bulk of the participants (65%) were able to assess their body weight accurately. On the other hand, the results of the study indicate the need for interventions to help develop health
In fact the inabilty of the sociall work profession to adequaelty and discretely define EBP, specifically the main goal of this work, may in part be to blame for scholalry blunders, such as the use of evidence-based practice in a title of a work that is highly qualitative, anecdotal or even based on a single or small set of case studies. Just as Weed lists the various levels of evidence,
evidence-based practice use in nursing for making decisions using evidences to provide care to patients. This assignment has highlighted five main principles of EBP. These principles should be considered while implementing EBP. Moreover, there are certain challenges and barriers in implementing EBP. This assignment focused on strategies for implementing EBP. Introduction of evidence-based practice to the workplace: Changing the accepted confirmation of an NG (nasogastric) tube Currently, I am employed at a