Patient Falls and Medication Errors

Falls of problems / interests are the second most common adverse event in medical institutions after medication errors, and it is estimated that 30% of hospitalized falls are seriously injured. Due to the seriousness of this problem, the Joint Committee urged 2009 to reduce the risk of patient injuries to hospital nationwide patient safety goals (AHRQ, 2006). Falls are the main cause of injuries caused by hospitals, complicating and complicating hospitalization, resulting in lower quality of life, increased costs, and accidental hospitalization for long-term care facilities.

"The experienced RN leads to inappropriate nurse placement levels associated with patient falls, infections, misdiagnosed doses, and even increased mortality worsened patients This condition drives nurses from the bedside By creating the environment, it affects care and alleviates the lack of care. " It is effective and highly reliable, responsible for developing and implementing nursing placement plan for each unit. These staffing plans are not mandatory based on the staffing principles of ANA (membership login is required). They are created in collaboration with Direct Care Registered Nurse (RN) itself, and are based on the unique situation of each department and the changing needs.

Background: Patient medication is part of clinical practice and has a high risk of error. The cause of medication errors is individual or whole body. In order to prevent the occurrence of errors, it is important to establish protection measures. Purpose: To investigate protective measures taken by nurses in the clinical setting to prevent misdirected medication. Methods and Materials: Search documents issued between January 2000 and August 2011 with Medline, Science Direct and Cochrane Library. RESULTS: Protection against misoperation was associated with drug preparation and management, and dose calculation methods. Change in health system problems related to nurse, nursing education, oral drug order, interdisciplinary collaboration, manager nurse, and drug management

Research on patients with drug-related errors Many studies fall into this category. Many people are interested in errors and adverse events related to inpatient ordering and drug management, but some studies focus on outpatients. Adverse events are defined as damage caused by medical management, not a potential disease or condition in the patient. 29 Not all, but a significant proportion of adverse events are the result of mistakes. Many studies have investigated the proportion of adverse events due to medical mistakes. Because of methodological problems, few studies have focused on errors in all ranges of things that cause harm and those that endanger patients but do not cause harm.