Med Errors
Why are children more likely to experience medication errors in relation to dosages?
Because dosages are based on body weight
The most common medication error involves:
Dosage
A system designed to prevent future mistakes and ask what happened, why it happened, and what can be done to prevent its recurrence is called:
root cause analysis (RCA)
Which organization has established patient safety standards?
TJC
Receiving two or three medications for the same condition is referred to as:
polypharmcacy
How many drug orders and label checks must be performed when dispensing and administering medications?
3
Patients must be educated so they understand the potential adverse effects that need to be reported:
Immediately
Medication errors can occur in how many stages within the medication process?
3
First stage errors can occur during prescribing or ordering when practitioners are:
distracted or interrupted
Patients must be educated so they understand the potential adverse effects that need to be reported:
immediately
A medication error may occur when dealing with outpatients because pharmacists do NOT do which of the following?
Adequately counsel patients
Which organization has helped to standardize the medication error reporting system?
NCC MERP
The steps that can help in avoiding medication errors and promoting safe administration of medications include assessment, planning, implementation, and:
evaluation
The most common medication error involves:
dosage
Manufacturing mistakes can lead to which of the following?
medication errors
Unexpected occurrences involving death or serious physical or psychological injury are called:
sentinel events
Which type of medication error describes an occurrence that required intervention necessary to sustain life?
Category H
A medication error classified as Category I is described as which of the following?
Errors that occurred that might have contributed to or resulted in the patient's death
Keeping track of a patient's medications as he or she changes health-care providers is called:
medication reconciliation
Nearly half of all fatal medication errors occur in patients older than:
60 years old
After a patient is discharged, he or she should receive a complete list of which of the following?
Medications to be taken
MedWatch is a program for reporting medication errors and was established by which government agency?
FDA
Health-care professionals should double-check medications against which of the following?
Medication administration record (MAR)
A separate written report that is completed after updating the specific records about a medication error is known as which of the following?
Incident or occurrence report
According to the Institute of Medicine, how many deaths occur from medical errors annually in the United States?
98,000