Topic chosen- Safe Medication

Safe medication is related to patient safety because they are getting medications to help alleviate their pain and help cure their problem but it can cause detrimental damage if not administered properly. If given too little it will not work properly, if given too much it will cause unwanted effects and could lead to death. It requires focus and detailed calculations to not make mistakes that can be bad for patients’ well being. Safe medication administration is vital for patient safety.

Some references..

Fusco, L. A., Alfes, C. M., Weaver, A., & Zimmermann, E. (2021). Medication Safety

Competence of Undergraduate Nursing Students. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 52, 1–7.

https://doi-org.proxymu.wrlc.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2020.12.003

– This resource is heavily geared towards teaching safe medication administration properly to nursing students. The goals of the study are to inform educators about medication safety competence of undergraduate nursing students and to ensure safe medication administration to future nurses. Medication safety is one if not the most important teachings of nursing school, a small mistake can end up causing a lot of damage to your patient and to your license, therefore, learning how to safely give meds has to be mastered in nursing school because there is no room for error once you become a nurse.

Park, J., & Seomun, G. (2021). Development and Validation of the Medication Safety

Competence Scale for Nurses. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 43(7), 686–697.

https://doi-org.proxymu.wrlc.org/10.1177/0193945920969929

This resource mainly talks about how medication errors occur, why they occur and why they are not reported. It focuses on the reporting aspect of medication errors and questions what the estimated percentages are for medication errors reported annually. And as nurses are the last checkpoint of handling medication before they are administered, their perception of medication errors is highly valid. This helps with bringing the medical field one step to safe medication administration and lower the number of medication administration errors that occur on a daily basis.

Tompkins McMahon, J. (2017). Improving Medication Administration Safety in the Clinical

Environment. MEDSURG Nursing, 26(6), 374–409.

This resource dives into how to improve medication administration, it talks about things that make it more likely to make a mistake. Work interruptions such as conversing with pt or family members while preparing medication, telephone calls or noise are one of the reasons why there are medication errors at bedside. This literature talks about things that have been done to reduce this problem such as creating an environment that is specifically for medication preparation. It also tests other ways to reduce medication administration errors to see it they are successful or not, this way they can be used by other institutions .

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