Question

-What are the most common medication errors?

-What are risk factors for medication errors?

-When can medication errors occur?

-Why must each error be thoroughly investigated and documented?

-What are the advantages of documenting medication errors?

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Answer 1

Q.What are the most common medication errors?

A. Medication errors :it is defined as any preventable event that may cause inappropriate patient harm while the medication is in the control of the healthcare professionals, patient, or consumer.

The most common type of medication error was wrong administration -technique,  wrong dose, wrong preparation, wrong time, prescribing error, dispensing error, monitoring error.

Q. When can medication errors occur?

A. Medication errors can occur at any time in patient care, from the point of ordering the medication to the time of admistered the drug. Due to poor communication between the doctors and you, due to medical abrevations, and also the the drug names sound alike look alike.

Q. -What are the advantages of documenting medication errors?

A. Advantages of documenting:To recognise the major types of errors, to determine baseline rates of errors, to reduce the risk, to encourage the quality care, accurate and Detailed information and continuity of care in the patient chart.