Question

..Optus 4G 2:33 pm 64% During handover, you find that one 14) vour clients is having high doses of IV Antibiotics administered as an infusion in 50ml Normal Saline over 30 minutes. Clie is complaining of severe pain at the IV sit nausea, dizziness and increased fatigue. Drug administration guidelines state the medication should be given in 250ml Normal Saline over two hours. 14.1) After identifying this drug error, explain your actions. Feedba 14.2) What recording and reporting shou be done with medication errors?

Answer 1

14.1, It is our responsibility to take care of the patient without making harm. Avoid blaming others for this error. stop the adverse effect first from worsening. inform the physician about the error and stabilize the patient first and report the error according to organization policy and culture and accept the truth and facts.
14.2, Reporting error can prevent future error. maintain rapport communication with patient and family about the events disclosure and make the patient safety, it improves trust and loyalty. Report to manager and supervisor about the event and adverse effect, this reduces the incidence of a lawsuit. Error reporting mechanism includes formal and informal reporting. formal reporting mechanism by including when medication error happened that should be document in the patient record by error events, degree of harm caused by error and whether this incident disclosed to everyone and patient or not and whether manager aware of this error or not related to disclosure.