Introduction.
Medication errors are avoidable events that can lead to potentially catastrophic or fatal consequences for the patient. There are a number of ways a medication error may occur: a prescribing error – wrong drug, dose, route or frequency, or the error may fall within the dispensing context: wrong dose given, wrong drug to the wrong patient, wrong route e.g. intravenous instead of intramuscular route. Drug prescribing and dispensing are complicated tasks requiring significant attention to detail and are often carried out under time or task pressure. In this research proposal we intend to study if by minimizing distractions to nurses Continue reading...
