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One nursing problem experienced today is medication errors. The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (2019) describes a medication error as any preventable event that causes or leads to inappropriate use of medication or patient harm while the medical is under the patients’, consumers’, or professionals’ control. According to the Institute of Medicine (IoM), every year, approximately 1.5 million Americans experience an adverse event caused by medication errors (Rose, Fischer, & Paasche-Orlow, 2017). Medication errors cost the U.S healthcare system close to $3.5 billion additional costs. According to Marvanova and Henkel (2018), medication errors are mainly due to patient-provider, provider-pharmacists, or pharmacist-patient communication errors. Medication errors need to be addressed as they threaten patients’ safety, health, and quality of life, nurses’ outcome measures, licensure, and practice at large, and the healthcare organizations’ cost of care. Thus, we must learn to identify potential leaks to medication errors can address them before they become a reality. Medication errors can happen throughout the medication-use systems e.g. during prescription, documentation, preparing, dispensing, or during administration. By addressing Medication errors, we can help to prevent the more than 100,000 reports of suspected medication errors in the U.S (FDA, 2019). We can also help reduce serious medication error consequences such as death, hospitalization, birth defect, etc. Also, we can help to improve nursing-sensitive outcomes and patient satisfaction, safety, health, and quality of life. One way we can address medication errors using nursing interventions e.g. medication reconciliation. This involves reviewing and verifying each medication for the right patient, right medication, correct dosage, correct time, and correct routine against the listed medication on transfer order (Rose et al., 2017).
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