Nurses are the fine line between medication administration errors and medication administration error prevention. Nurses should be required to go above and beyond to avoid medication errors for the safety of the patient. This paper includes studies on the nurses knowledge, adherence and opinions on two-nurse double-check method for medication administration. The research concludes the evidence proved to be insignificant. Keywords: time management, medication errors, patient safety, double-check medication administration

THE LINK BETWEEN INDEPENDENT DOUBLE CHECK AND PATIENT SAFETY
Introduction
The risk of medication errors will always exist, despite the many methods of preventing medication administration errors. The steps of the medication administration process are vital for patient safety. Unfortunately due to the lack of nurses in hospitals, nurses tend to skip steps of safe medication administration because of patient load and the time required to perform the steps. Are double checks essential in preventing medication errors? A diabetic patient on the medical-surgical floor needs the …show more content…
The main reason for the double-check method, in the nurses’ opinion, was for the safety of children from medication errors. Discovered was the contributing factors causing mistakes among nurses; this issue needed to be addressed. These factors included: shortage of pediatric nurses due workload, interruption, and the second person being unavailable (Alsulami, Z., Choonara, I., & Conroy, S., 2014). According to the article this study, “found that having patient identity as a specific item on a checklist reduced patient identity errors. None of the studies provided convincing evidence to either support or refute the practice of double-checking during medication administration and none was conducted in a children’s setting” (Alsulami,