Concept of Medication Administration Error | Report

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INTRODUCTION
Medication administration error is a critical process that leads to the development of
more severe clinical complications that affect the lives and prognosis of the patient at a very
severe rate 1. Nursing discipline play a huge role in the process of medication administration
and it is actually highly important that the nurses are trained and supervised properly in order
to perform the medication administration process in a very crucial and critical manner. It is
highly important to understand the new graduate nurses play a huge role in the development
of these psychosocial and clinical problems related to medication administration errors2. The
problem lies with the professional and self-management skills of the new graduate nurses
who lack the required mindset, personal skills and the clinical experience that affects the
perception of the new graduate nurses in formation of negative attitudes about the medication
administration process and the procedure. In the high paced acute care and in the critical care
department – where the patient has to be given various medications at a or rather a timely
basis complicates the procedures and processes related to the technique of medications (and
in addition to the given requirement of route of administration which might be different for
different drug) also play a very critical role in the development of adverse drug reactions
event resulting from medication administration error 3. Adverse drug event are severe drug
related clinical outcomes of the patient resulted due to the administration of the wrong or
incorrect drug at the wrong time which has resulted in a clinical accident situation, causing
the patient to go through an anaphylaxis or hypersensitivity or drug allergies that can prove
fatal and deadly for the patient of any age and gender. It has been seen that the workplace
where the nurses work in a clinical scenario, are the sources of stress and anxiety and it is the
very lack of psychological safety that affect the lives and the quality of practice by the nurses,
especially by the new graduate nurses as compared to the old and the experienced nurses who

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knows how to work under the immense clinical pressure of patient servicing. In the medical
literature, the causes of adverse drug reactions or adverse drug events has been attributed to
the lack of positive perception of the new graduate nurses, lack of the right attitude of the
new graduate nurses, lack of supervision by the senior nurses and lack of communication and
knowledge of the new, inexperienced nurses that has resulted in the development and
presentation of situations where the nurse has committed a medication administration error
and it is to be noted very closely and considered very well that an adverse drug event
resulting from the medication administration error can prove fatal for the subject as well.
However, the there is a gap in the understanding that how and what factors actually impact
the wrong decision making of the nurses with the medication admiration process and what
measures can be taken to correct the nursing error.
Using the PICO format, the research question can be formulated as:-
Population Intervention Comparison Outcome
Young graduate
nurses
Audits,
documentation and
electronic guiding
tools
Supervision by senior
nurses
more clarity with the
medication
administration
process in each
medical cases
Does the use and incorporation of audits and electronic reminders in the clinical supervision
process improve the outcomes of the nursing involved with medication administration error?

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LITERATURE REVIEW
A search across the electronic databases such as PubMed, Cinahal, Embase was
performed in order to find the articles that are analyzed with respect to the problem of the
research.
Inclusion criteria:
a) Articles published in the peer reviewed journals will be chosen
b) Articles that are in English language.
c) articles not more than 5 years old
Exclusion criteria:
a) Articles not published in the peer reviewed journals will be chosen
b) Articles that are not in English language.
c) Articles more than 5 years old
Article name Author name Year of
publication
Methodology Findings
4 "Intravenous
smart pump drug
library
compliance: a
descriptive study
of 44 hospitals."
Giuliano, Karen
K., Wan-Ting Su,
Daniel D.
Degnan, Kristy
Fitzgerald,
Richard J. Zink,
and Poching
DeLaurentis
2018 Descriptive
Study
According to
the study, the
use of drug
library is a
bioinformatics
based system
that is critical
to the