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Mar 22, 2022 · Former nurse RaDonda Vaught is on trial on charges of reckless homicide. Her case raises consequential questions about how nurses use computerized medication-dispensing cabinets.
- Medication errors happen all the time. Human error is a fact of life and mistakes with medication are the most common errors in health care. Studies have shown that, besides increasing hospital stays and inpatient expenses, medication errors cause more than 7,000 deaths annually in the United States.
- Nurses are the most exposed to making medication errors. Nurses have always played a major role in preventing medication errors. Research has shown that nurses are responsible for intercepting between 50% and 80% of potential medication errors before they reach the patient in the prescription, transcription and dispensing stages of the process.
- Put the patient first. You discover you have made serious medication error, while you are half-way through administering the drug, at some later stage or when a colleague finds the error.
- Practice self-care. In the days and weeks that follow you will experience the psychological trauma widely known as the second victim syndrome. The first casualty is the patient who has been hurt by the error and the second victim is the person who has to live with its consequences.
A neonatal nurse practitioner (NP) with 7 years of experience and a nursery nurse with 6 years of experience investigated whether the medication could be given intravenously instead. Although they consulted references, the information they found was unclear, and they misinterpreted it.
- Stephen P. Hurley, Marcus J. Berghahn
- 2010
May 2, 2022 · A nurse made a fatal error. Why was she charged with a crime? How the RaDonda Vaught case threatens patient safety. by Keren Landman, MD. May 2, 2022, 6:20 AM PDT. RaDonda Vaught and her attorney...
The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements informs decision making about ethical violations by nurses and nursing education programs. The Code is the nursing profession’s ethical standard of practice and nursing’s contract with society.
- Linda L. Olson, Felicia Stokes
- 2016
For example, nurses are held accountable to use their clinical judgment to avoid causing harm to clients (maleficence) and to do good (beneficence). When administering medications, nurses should validate the medication is doing more “good” than “harm” (adverse or side effects).
Oct 28, 2021 · Most of the resulting deaths (80%) are caused by gastrointestinal bleeds from NSAIDs, aspirin, or the anticoagulant warfarin. Errors occur at every stage of the medicines management process, but over half (54%) are made at the point of administration.
