medication errors

Medication Errors are among the biggest issues devoted in health care setting today in America. According to a recent Journal of the American Medical Association, medication error causes more than 10,000 of injures and deaths every year. Medication giving include five basic rights: Right patient, Right medication, Right route, Right dose, and Right time. Contrary to the above is medication errors. However, most common errors are occurred by poor transcriptions, drug interactions, drug name confuse, and …

…for a surgery, prophylactic anticoagulant is administered to prevent clots and perhaps continues post-op. If a patient is not given his medication at right time, he could break a clot and might be embolism to death. Even though the nurses dealing with too much work load, it is still their responsibilities to keeping a right documentation for their patients. It also has been said, ¡° if you don¡¯t chart is you didn¡¯t do it.¡±