Nursing Report: Analysis of Quality Assurance and Medicine Errors

This report delves into the critical concept of quality assurance within nursing practices, emphasizing the accountability of nurses for effective patient care. The focus is on medicine errors, a significant threat to patient safety, with data from Canada highlighting thousands of incidents. The report explores the causes of such errors, including faulty supplies and administration issues, and discusses the role of quality assurance in maintaining high standards of care and preventing adverse health effects and legal repercussions for healthcare institutions. It examines the factors contributing to declining quality assurance, the impact of medicine errors, and the significance of healthcare institutes adhering to quality assurance frameworks to minimize errors and ensure patient well-being. The conclusion underscores the importance of addressing medicine errors to prevent patient deaths and adverse health outcomes. References to relevant studies are provided to support the analysis.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Quality assurance – medicine errors..........................................................................................2
QA linked to the healthcare practice..........................................................................................2
Summary of the practice reflection............................................................................................2
Nursing boards and final thoughts.............................................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................4

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Introduction
Quality assurance in the nursing practices is the dynamic concept where it is assumed
that nurses are accountability for the effective care of the patients (Sciacovelli, et. al., 2017).
For this report, medicine error is the learning plan.
Quality assurance – medicine errors
Medicine errors are the major threat to the patient safety, as in Canada there are over
5000 incidents noted in the year 2018 that are indicated by the National Health Service
hospitals. These kinds of errors are mistakenly done by the multiple factors such as involving
faulty supply, labelling and errors of administration, etc (Nccmerp.org, 2019).
QA linked to the healthcare practice
The purpose of the QA is to maintain the high quality of patient care and to prevent
such errors because these kinds of errors put the adverse effect on the patient health and these
errors also put the various legal concertation on the healthcare institute (Ather, et. al., 2013).
QA helps the health care institute to reduce the pharmacology and CPT so that better quality
assurance can be implement in effective and efficient way (Nccmerp.org, 2019).
Summary of the practice reflection
The significance of this study is to examine the critical factors that are responsible for
the declining the quality assurance terms in effective and efficient way. As the adverse effect
of the medicine errors is analysis through the utilization of the medicine cycle by the patient.
In various countries, medicine errors cause a number of deaths (Sciacovelli, et. al., 2017).
Nursing boards and final thoughts
Prescribing errors may be defined as the incorrect drug selection for a patient. Such
errors can include the dose, quantity, indication, etc. Health Care institutes should work in

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accordance with the prescribed framework of the quality assurance so that they can minimize
such errors (Okafor, et. al., 2016).
Conclusion
It is concluded that such medicine errors cause number of deaths in the world. Such
kind of errors put the adverse effect on the health of the patients. The degree of adverse
effectiveness depends upon the utilization cycle by the patient.

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References
Ather, A., Neelkantreddy, P., Anand, G., Manjunath, G., Vishwanath, J., & Riyaz, M. (2013).
A study on determination of prescription writing errors in outpatient department of
medicine in a teaching hospital. Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 6(2), 21-24.
Nccmerp.org. (2019). About Medication Errors. Retrieved from:
https://www.nccmerp.org/about-medication-errors
Okafor, N., Payne, V. L., Chathampally, Y., Miller, S., Doshi, P., & Singh, H. (2016). Using
voluntary reports from physicians to learn from diagnostic errors in emergency
medicine. Emergency Medicine Journal, 33(4), 245-252.
Sciacovelli, L., Lippi, G., Sumarac, Z., West, J., del Pino Castro, I. G., Vieira, K. F. &
Plebani, M. (2017). Quality indicators in laboratory medicine: the status of the
progress of IFCC Working Group “Laboratory Errors and Patient Safety”
project. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), 55(3), 348-357.