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N653 Fall Prevention Final Project, Sam Clark
N653 Fall Prevention Final Project, Sam Clark
Master's Projects and Capstones
N653 Fall Prevention Final Project
by Samuel K. Clark, RN
This project was done with patient safety in mind through the use of the most current EBP available.
Improving Patient Safety: Reducing Medication Errors In The Microsystem, Erica M. Dent
Improving Patient Safety: Reducing Medication Errors In The Microsystem, Erica M. Dent
Master's Projects and Capstones
In a 72-bed for-profit long-term acute care hospital located in an urban setting, there has been a fifteen percent increase of medication errors that the pharmacy department has detected across nursing, and pharmacy departments, as well as with physicians from both day and night shifts. Over the last month there has been a total of twenty-eight medication errors including the transcription, administration, evaluation, and documentation processes. The microsystem consists of a telemetry/medical-surgical unit as well as a small intensive care unit consisting of ten beds.
The prospectus details a project implemented to reduce medication errors within the microsystem. The steps …