University Assignment: QUM Framework and Medication Error Analysis

This report examines the Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) framework, focusing on its principles and application in healthcare settings. It addresses the importance of medication, the principles of the QUM framework, and their relation to medication errors. The report highlights the significance of consumer primacy, partnership, and system-based approaches. It discusses values, legislation, training, and education within the QUM framework, emphasizing the responsibilities of registered nurses in medication management. Strategies to reduce medication errors are explored, including pharmacist-led reviews and the analysis of medical records. The document references various studies and guidelines to support its analysis, aiming to improve patient safety and healthcare outcomes. The report also discusses the importance of policy development and continuous improvement within the QUM framework, including the need for ongoing reflection and updates based on experience and analysis.

APPLYING THE
PRINCIPLES OF QUM
FRAMEWORK IN
PRACTICE
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QUALITY USE OF MEDICINES
(QUM)
Quality Use of Medicines Framework signifies the management of
the medicines that have been incorporated into the healthcare
system (Quality Use of Medicines (QUM), 2019)
In addition, length of the treatment and the dosage to be
administered while carefully monitoring the health condition
The objective of the National Strategy for QUM is to cause the
most ideal utilization of meds to improve wellbeing results for all
Australians (Hope, Mayne & King, 2015)

IMPORTANCE OF
MEDICATION
Medications assume a focal job in social care and add to critical
upgrades in wellbeing results (Makiani et al., 2017)
Australian and International studies show a high commonness of
medicine related issues including prescription blunders and
Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) related with hospitalization
Medicine errors can have been characterized as a disappointment
in the treatment procedure that prompts, or can possibly prompt,
damage to the patient (Roughead et al., 2016)

PRINCIPLES OF QUM
FRAMEWORK AND RELATING
IT WITH MEDICATION ERROR
Consumer primacy
Partnership
Existing support for activity (Weekes, 2015)
Collaborative, multi-disciplinary and consultative activities
Approaches which are system based (The National Strategy for Quality
Use of Medicines, 2002)
Effective partnership needs to be built by medical professionals by
collaboration of activities which hold consumer primacy as superior and
implementing approaches which are primarily system-based

VALUES AND LEGISLATIONS
TO INCORPORATE INTO THE
HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Development and further implementation of the policy - Policy and methodology
archives likewise give a manual for activity to accomplish the general objective. The
National Strategy is a developing report. It requires consistent reflection and update
dependent on experience and analysis (Sluggett et al., 2017)
Training and Education - Fitting instruction and preparing gives the essential
information and aptitudes to help QUM. It ought to happen inside a QUM system as
these permits the job of medications in wellbeing to be talked about (Cloete, 2015)
According to Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009,
registered nurses are liable to manage the medications that are to
be administered to the patient upon the prescription of the
physician.

STRATEGIES TO REDUCE
MEDICATION ERRORS
A drug specialist should lead a review survey of all medicine
orders produced while the drug store was shut when a drug
specialist is accessible or the drug store opens (Wilson et al., 2016)
Another measure that could be used to improve consciousness of
mistakes is the evaluation of therapeutic records to identify
blunders that were not generally announced (Westbrook et al.,
2015)

REFERENCES
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Hope, D., Mayne, P., & King, M. A. (2015). S3 Medicines online: Access to pharmacist only
medicines from online pharmacies in Australia. AJP: The Australian Journal of
Pharmacy, 96(1136), 24. ISSN: 0311-8002
Makiani, M. J., Nasiripour, S., Hosseini, M., & Mahbubi, A. (2017). Drug-drug interactions:
The importance of medication reconciliation. Journal of research in pharmacy practice, 6(1),
61. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4103%2F2279-042X.200992
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https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/nmp-quality.htm
Roughead, E. E., Semple, S. J., & Rosenfeld, E. (2016). The extent of medication errors and
adverse drug reactions throughout the patient journey in acute care in Australia. International
journal of evidence-based healthcare, 14(3-4), 113-122. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1097/XEB.0000000000000075

REFERENCES
Sluggett, J. K., Ilomäki, J., Seaman, K. L., Corlis, M., & Bell, J. S. (2017). Medication management
policy, practice and research in Australian residential aged care: current and future
directions. Pharmacological research, 116, 20-28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2016.12.011
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Weekes, L. (2015). QUALITY USE OF MEDICINES: CONSIDERATIONS IN
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Westbrook, J. I., Li, L., Lehnbom, E. C., Baysari, M. T., Braithwaite, J., Burke, R., ... & Day, R. O.
(2015). What are incident reports telling us? A comparative study at two Australian hospitals of
medication errors identified at audit, detected by staff and reported to an incident system. International
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Wilson, A. J., Palmer, L., Levett-Jones, T., Gilligan, C., & Outram, S. (2016). Interprofessional
collaborative practice for medication safety: Nursing, pharmacy, and medical graduates’ experiences and
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