Medication Safety In Nursing Practice 8 Running Head; Nursing Practice Medication Safety
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Medication Safety In Nursing Practice2Medication SafetyMedication safety is the freedom from any preventable form of harm with medication use. Medication is an aspect which entails adverse drug events which result from usage of medication., (Rajasekaran et al, 2017 pp. 183) The consumed drugs leads to adverse reactionsand include observations of side effects, overmedication and medication errors. Adverse drugs events are termed as serious public health issue globally. Medication safety has led to improved revision of standards which emphasizes on systems which prevents occurrences of drug adverse effects. Health care practitioners’ and professionals thus are obligated to ensure safe use of medications and minimisation of errors, (Carayon, et al, 2014 pp.14-17). Medication safety has been attributed to adverse drug events which result to injuries from medication use. Adverse drug events can be caused by preventable errors. Adverse drugevents that are not prevented result in adverse drug reactions referred to as drug response is noxious and not intended and occurs at doses designed for prophylaxis, diagnosis or disease therapy medication, (Sørensen et al,2016. Potential cases of adverse drug evens are referred top medical errors which don’t cause any harm to the patients as they are managed before they harm the patient. Medication safety has been shown to have an impact on health outcomes of patients such as hospital length of stay, rates of readmission and overall health care costs, (Hall et al 2016). Impacts on nursing practiceMedication safety affects nurses negatively. The trauma effects on the nurse can be at times overwhelming to bear. Nurses most of the times worry on patients. Nurses often feel upset, guilty and often terrified on medication safety. At times they often feel loss of confidence, guilty and terrified, which end up feeling angry on the system and for themselves, (Lavin, Harper & Barr, 2015). Most of the medical safety concerns are committed by nurses. This is largely attributed to nurses being the largest medical team who offers drugs to patients and spends an estimate of 40% of their time hospitals set ups giving medication, (DoH, Australia, 2004).Medical safety concerns such as medical errors often lead to various medical problems such as poor treatment of patients, legal problems and rehospitalisation cases, damaged medical profession and further decline on nurses reputation. Medical safety is a professional nursing issue as the main goal of an health care systemis to ensure that there is preservation and promotion of health, (Croke, 2003). Preserving the safety of the patient is key determinant in providing care. a paramount stage in medical care is patient safety which is guaranteed with medical safety aspects. Since the awareness of
Medication Safety In Nursing Practice3medical errors in the beginning of new millennium, many huge efforts have been made to ensure that patients access safe medical experiences and safety process. Medical errors have been attributed as common form of errors which have threatened safety of the patients in hospitals, (Australian Government, 2008). Medical administration in this sense is an important nursing task. The work over load coupled with increased dosage intake of medication prescription in the professional practice puts the nursing practice at a delicate balance of ensuring safety. Occurrences of medical errors often have disastrous effects on patients and affect the overall nursing practices, as medical negligence sets in, (Tobiano et al, 2015 pp 2745-2455). Medical safety often occurs at high incidence level on a day. Medical errors as a form of medical safety indicators can include practices such as administration errors, dispensing errors, wrongful information on writing of orders and errors committed during ordering. A nurse on a single day can administer more than 50 medications in any single shift, (Durham et al, 2016 pp 76). These medical errors have tremendous effects on the nurses. It affects them negatively. They undergo psychological trauma as the medical errors can be so much overwhelming to the nurse. Nurses worries a lot about the patient, often this worries are accompanied by feelings of upset and feelings of guilt. At times missing basic medical safety practices can lead them to loss of confidence in their enjoyment on clinical practices, (Zimmerman & House, 2016 pp 49).Medical safety wrong doings have shown to have negative effects on patient confidenceand overall burden on health care system. Further it has been shown to increase health care costs. Safety has been advanced by ethical and code of ethics of no harm for patient safety. Inorder to ensure principle of do not harm is practised, health care facility fosters an environment which allows patient safety and eliminates the burden associated with patient confidence and recovery, (Tobiano et al, 2016). An important aspect in ensuring medication safety is through identifying medical errorsand their root causes. Medication errors have been the most contributing factor of medication safety, which threatened patient safety and has been used as an index of determination on patient safety in various hospital settings. Studies done have shown that medication errors increases hospitalization stay by 2 days which lead to an increase of between $2000-$2500 per patient, (Kim et al, 2017). Further most of the medication errors are committed by nurses.Further causes of committing these medication errors have been attributed to personal factors such as stress, fatigue drug administration errors, lower levels of attention, predisposing
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