Topic: Medication Errors Don’t Let Them Happen to You

I have learned from the article that the consequences of medication error are severe, I believed it the responsibility of myself a student nurse and every nurse to ensure that accurate measure are followed as they greatly influence medication used. Accurate measures will include; Patient information this is very important to meds administration because it helps the nurse identify who exactly their patients are. Another important fact I took into consideration when I read the article was the “five rights”. I believe accurate patient demographic such as name, age, date of birth, allergies and history of infection gives the nurse, the rightful information that identifies the patient every time they access the patients’ medical information. Such information will correctly help nurses in choosing the appropriate drugs, dosage administrator, and the frequency of the route. The patients age is another important aspect in providing the right dose since certain drugs are only given to specific ages of people while allergy history of a patient helps the nurse accept or decline to issue medication that they believe would result in serious allergic reactions with the patient. Another aspect nurses need to take into consideration when preparing medications is the environment. It’s very important that nurses dispense medication in a quite environment to avoid distraction and med error. It is important for nurses to be free from stress, or fatigue. and also ask the Dr. question if they do not understand the handwriting, to avoid errors. Over all nurse should be attentive, confirm where there are doubts and know their five right to avoid medication errors from