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Medication Errors

Abstract

Participants will appreciate the importance of nurses' responsibility in medication administration process, and the accountability towards patients (first victim) and self (second victim)in terms of error/s occurrences. Additionally, participants will be encouraged to delve deeper for a just rationale, create a clinical culture of support for nurses, educate students accordingly.

Authors

Seema Lall

Author Details

Seema Lall, PhD, Harriet Rothkopf Heilbrunn School of Nursing, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Sigma Membership

Non-member

Lead Author Affiliation

Long Island University Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Type

Presentation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Research Approach

N/A

Keywords:

Medication Errors, Patient Safety, Just Culture, contributing factors in underreprting of medication errors

Conference Name

Nursing Education Research Conference 2018

Conference Host

Sigma Theta Tau International,National League for Nursing

Conference Location

Washington, DC, USA

Conference Year

2018

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The lived experience of making a medication administration error in nursing practice

Washington, DC, USA

Participants will appreciate the importance of nurses' responsibility in medication administration process, and the accountability towards patients (first victim) and self (second victim)in terms of error/s occurrences. Additionally, participants will be encouraged to delve deeper for a just rationale, create a clinical culture of support for nurses, educate students accordingly.