A Precise Sentinel Incident Relating to Medication Administration
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For this assessment, you will develop an 8-14 slide PowerPoint presentation with thorough speaker's notes designed for a hypothetical in-service session related to the safe medication administration improvement plan you developed in Assessment 2.
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Safety Improvement Plan for Safe Medication Administration
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Safety Improvement Plan for Safe Medication Administration
Medical errors have historically been attributed to various patients’ injuries and loss
of life in some extreme cases. One of the common medical errors around the globe is
medication error, which occurs in the form of wrong medical administration (Gorgich et al.,
2016). That could be administering a wrong drug to the patient, a medication overdose, or
administering a drug at the wrong time. There are various causes of medical errors relating to
unsafe medication administration. Therefore, the paper under review presents a discussion
about the safety of medication administration. Part of the discussion includes analyzing the
cause of an issue relating to patient safety and using evidence-based techniques to address the
safety concern. Further sections of the paper discuss developing an improvement plan that is
feasible and based on evidence, including the resources available at the organization useful in
improving the plan inclined towards having safe medication administration.
A Precise Sentinel Incident Relating to Medication Administration
There have been numerous incidences related to medication administration errors.
Still, for the sake of the discussion under review, the precise issue is one relating to an
incident involving a one-and-a-half-year-old girl who was seeking treatment at a healthcare
facility. The patient is said to have serious burns at home from a hot bath tab. Based on the
diagnosis, the girl needed to stay under intensive care for a week and three days. After the
recommended time, the patient was moved to a step-down section in preparation for
discharge as soon as they got better. As part of routine medication administration, the doctor
administered Narcan to soothe the patient, and she was even permitted to take juice that time.
Notably, the doctor left verbal instructions that the nurse was not supposed to administer any
narcotics to the patient until further notice. The precise incident of interest, in this case, was
later when a different nurse on the shift walked over to the young patient’s bed and
administered methadone, a drug among the category discouraged by the doctor. Based on the
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