Nurses' role in medication safety Choo, Janet, Hutchinson, Alison and Bucknall, Tracey 2010, Nurses' role in medication safety, Journal of nursing management, vol. 18, no. 7, Special Issue : This issue : Service improvement in health care, pp. 853-861, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2010.01164.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Nurses' role in medication safety Author(s) Choo, Janet Hutchinson, Alison orcid.org/0000-0001-5065-2726 Bucknall, Tracey orcid.org/0000-0001-9089-3583 Journal name Journal of nursing management Volume number 18 Issue number 7 Season Special Issue : This issue : Service improvement in health care Start page 853 End page 861 Total pages 19 Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd Place of publication Oxford, England Publication date 2010-10 ISSN 0966-0429 1365-2834 Keyword(s) decision making information technology medication administration medication error medication safety nursing Summary Aim To explore the nurses role in the process of medication management and identify the challenges associated with safe medication management in contemporary clinical practice. Background Medication errors have been a long-standing factor affecting consumer safety. The nursing profession has been identified as essential to the promotion of patient safety. Evaluation A review of literature on medication errors and the use of electronic prescribing in medication errors. Key issues Medication management requires a multidisciplinary approach and interdisciplinary communication is essential to reduce medication errors. Information technologies can help to reduce some medication errors through eradication of transcription and dosing errors. Nurses must play a major role in the design of computerized medication systems to ensure a smooth transition to such as system. Conclusion The nurses roles in medication management cannot be over-emphasized. This is particularly true when designing a computerized medication system. Implication for nursing management The adoption of safety measures during decision making that parallel those of the aviation industry safety procedures can provide some strategies to prevent medication error. Innovations in information technology offer potential mechanisms to avert adverse events in medication management for nurses. Language eng DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2010.01164.x Field of Research 111003 Clinical Nursing: Secondary (Acute Care) Socio Economic Objective 920210 Nursing HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30033096 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Nursing and Midwifery Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 02 Mar 2011, 13:22:31 EST Tue, 22 Mar 2011, 11:07:22 EST Tue, 29 Mar 2011, 10:19:06 EST Tue, 29 Mar 2011, 10:20:04 EST Tue, 29 Mar 2011, 10:24:49 EST Wed, 15 Jun 2011, 10:15:46 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 13:05:51 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 17:28:01 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 45 times in TR Web of Science Cited 52 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1127 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 02 Mar 2011, 13:22:27 EST by Jane Moschetti

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