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Nursing in Health and Social Care Sector Essay

   

Added on  2020-07-22

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1A “Back to Basics” Approach to reduce medication errors.............................................................1Effectiveness of a ‘Do not interrupt’ bundled intervention............................................................4CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7.........................................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTIONNursing is profession in health and social care sector and its main focus on care offamilies, individuals and also communities in order to recover, attain and maintain optimal lifequality. Under this, it is a responsibility of health care organisations to maintain health of peopleand also take care of them in an effective or efficient manner (Maryudi and et. al., 2012). In thismention report discuss about the two articles Back to Basis approach to minimize EDmedications errors and other is Effectiveness of a ‘Do not interrupt’ to minimize interruptions.Aims, results, methods, internal and external validity of these two journals will be discussed ingiven report.A “Back to Basics” Approach to reduce medication errorsThere are many frequent errors are noticed in emergency department which cause harmto the life of patients. From the research, it is observed that 36% of medication errors arehappens at administration phase. The proper medication of patients is done by nurses in most ofthe cases. So, it is the responsibility upon management if to appoint qualified nurses having theknowledge about medication and proper care in emergency departments. There is also need toprovide adequate training which helps them to learn about new skills regarding treatment ofdifferent kind of patients for their optimum care.. The main “Aim” of this article is to reinforce basic medication procedures which helpsin reduction of medication errors in emergency departments. There are different “Methods” which are used for improving the skills and reduction ofmedication errors. Under this, examine that needed to provide 3 month educational programmeafter analysing its pre-post outcome variables (Broome, 2015). Such educational programmes isknown as “ Preventing Medication and IV Administration Errors” which provides theinformation regarding the current errors which are happen on regular basis in emergencydepartment and simultaneously provides the approaches which recommends practices whichcontributes in removal of reduction of errors. It is observed from the above article that out of 127nurses, 75% are participated in medical programme. The three different measures are used forpre and post intervention. The first measures is about to assess the knowledge about basicmedication administration procedures through use of tests. Secondly, application of the methodsof survey to assess the information through behaviours which reflects the recommendation about1

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