Question

Read the article assigned for this week’s reading and answer the following questions. Submit your answers in an APA format summary. a. What is the definition of a medication error? b. What are "high-alert" medications? c. What abbreviations are dangerous? Are these evidence based? d. What drug names are frequently confused? e. How should tall man lettering be applied to differentiate look-alike/soundalike drug names?

Answer 1

a).Medication error is defined as administering a medication in a wrong dose or to wrong person or the wrong drug results in harmful effects to the individual. Violating the ten rights of medication administration results in medication error.

b).High alert medications are those which will cause serious fatal conditions if administered wrongly.some of the high alert medications are epinephrine, norepinephrine,amiodarone and vecuronium.

c).BT - bed time mistaken as bid

NORFLOX- Norfloxacin mistaken as norflex

TAC-Triamcinolone mistaken as Tetracycline.

HCT- Hydrocortisone mistaken as Hydrochlorothiazide.

d).DTaP (diptheria and tetanus toxoid acellular pertussis) confused name Tdap(tetanus toxoid and reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis).

Pitavastatin confused name pravastatin

Tramadol confused name Trazadone

Zolmitriptan confused name Zolpidem

e).Tall man lettering is applied in the drug name which will highlight the alphabet is look like or will confusing with another drug.example:acetaZOLAMIDE,acetaHEXAMIDE,buPROPion and busPIRon