Annotated Bibliography-Medication Error

Annotated Bibliography-Medication Error

Applying Library Research Skills

In healthcare, there exist various challenges that affect the healthcare providers as well as patients. One common challenge that affects patients and healthcare providers almost in equal measure is medication errors. Medication errors refer to adverse effects of care that can be preventable with or without the evidence of harm to the patients. There exist a wide variety of medical errors that can exist in healthcare and they include incomplete diagnosis or improper prescription of drugs.

With my education and knowledge, I will help the healthcare team identify ways and approached that they can implement in their daily activities to prevent medical errors because they pause a great risk to the health of patients. Besides, medication errors can increase the cost of medication and to the extreme; they can cause the death of patients.

Identifying Academic Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

I used Summon, Capella University’s search engine to find my relevant search articles through the online library. To ensure that my articles were aligned to my field of interest, I used key words to filter my search content using the phrases, “Medication error and “Medication Error in the U.S.A.”. Besides, I limited my search to peer reviewed articles.

Assessing Credibility and Relevance of Information Sources

I selected peer reviewed articles published within five years to ensure that the articles were credible and relevant to my area of interest. Besides, all the articles that I selected reflected authors that have experience or that practice in various fields in healthcare with profound professional experience. Besides, I assessed each of the selected articles to confirm that they had the actual concepts of medication errors, causes and their effects in healthcare.

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Annotated Bibliography

Owens, K., Palmore, M., Penoyer, D., & Viers, P. (2020). The effect of implementing bar-code medication administration in an emergency department on medication administration errors and nursing satisfaction. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 46(6), 884-891.

This article emphasizes the need for implementing Bar-code medication administration as a means of reducing medical errors in healthcare. Bar-code medication administration is an inventory used in hospitals to help in the distribution and prescription of medicines to help reduce medical errors. According to the literature presented by the article, bar-code medication administration implementation within the emergency department will help in curbing some of the medication administration errors that may cause adverse effects to the patients.

Further, the article reveals that bar-code medication administration implementation was responsible in reducing medical errors by a margin of 74.2% which is essential in improving nursing satisfaction as the system helps nurses in administering medicines. The major outcome of bar-code medication administration implementation as noted in the article is the possibility of preventing medical errors as well as improving nursing satisfaction. The importance of nursing satisfaction in healthcare is diverse as it builds the nurse morale and helps them to cope with occupational stress.

This article is relevant to my area of interest given that it addresses an evidence-based strategy of preventing medical errors, one of the contributing factors to poor patient outcomes and increased patient morbidity and patient mortality.

Yousef, N., & Yousef, F. (2017). Using total quality management approach to improve patient safety by preventing medication error incidences. 
BMC health services research
, 
17
(1), 1-16.

According to the article, drug administration errors account for the majority of medical errors within healthcare. For instance, the article affirms that in a previous study, data revealed that medication errors accounted for 6.7 out of 100 administrated medication doses, a worrying trend. The article therefore aimed to propose measures that would help in reducing medication errors to at least 1 out 100 doses. According to the article, some of the proposed interventions to help curb medication errors are clear handwritten prescription and professional education.

Clear handwriting is essential in ensuring that the dispensing physician is able to clearly see the exact dose written by the prescribing healthcare provider hence prevent instances where poor handwriting accounts to medication errors. Besides, professional education is essential in that it helps in equipping healthcare providers with the required knowledge on medication prescription and dispensation. According to the article, administration fault accounted to 24.8% while 42.8% was related to the prescription phase. Also mistakes due to poor handwritten prescription were 17.6%. The authors therefore concluded that improving on handwriting is an effective way of reducing medication errors.

Kahn, S., & Abramson, E. L. (2019). What is new in pediatric medication safety? 
Archives of Disease in Childhood
, 
104
(6), 596-599.

According to Kahn & Abramson, (2019), medication errors account to a large portion of medical errors with the pediatric population remaining to be highly vulnerable. Besides, the article highlights that errors can occur at various places during care. The article is particularly interested in highlighting the various advancements in pediatric care that have been implemented to ensure medication safety among the most vulnerable patient population, pediatric patients.

The article highlights some of the technologies that have implemented to reduce medical errors such as the use of mobile application technologies and workflow management, barcoding technologies that enhance safe medication administration through the use of SMART pumps as well as computerized provider order entry and clinical support Annotated Bibliography-Medication Error.

Effective implementation of the approaches will help in significant reduction in the general medication errors that have adversely affected the health and wellbeing of sick children. This article is in line to my area of interest because it highlights medical errors in healthcare and precisely focuses on the pediatric population that is more vulnerable.

Alqenae, F. A., Steinke, D., & Keers, R. N. (2020). Prevalence and nature of medication errors and medication-related harm following discharge from hospital to community settings: a systematic review. Drug safety, 43(6), 517-537.

Medication safety during hospital admissions has been greatly highlighted but the same has not emphasized on medical errors after hospital discharge. The point of discharge my particularly pose significant challenges which may affect the adherence to prescribed medication after discharge which may lead to medical errors and associated effects. For instance, discharge may make some patients anxious and hence feel the freedom to abuse some of the prescribed drugs. Also, medication errors at home can happen intentionally or by mistake, either of which leads to adverse consequences. According to the article, the home environment increases the risk for poor drug adherence as well as adverse drug reactions. The risks of drug reactions may result due to the fact that at the point of discharge, some of the medications are stopped while other are initiated that may react to previously administered medications. According to the authors, some of the factors that enhance medication errors include poor communication at the point of discharge, poor or insufficient monitoring, lack of discharge summaries ad letters. Therefore, to prevent medical errors after discharge, the aforementioned factors must be rectified.

Learning from the Research

The research has enriched me with relevant information on medication errors by identifying some of the factors that contribute to medication errors as well as ways of preventing the occurrence of the errors. The peer reviewed articles were of great help to the study because they contain information that is credible and practices that are evidence based. For instance, the study has helped appreciate that medication errors can equally happen within the home setting after hospital discharge.

References

Alqenae, F. A., Steinke, D., & Keers, R. N. (2020). Prevalence and nature of medication errors and medication-related harm following discharge from hospital to community settings: a systematic review. Drug safety, 43(6), 517-537.

Kahn, S., & Abramson, E. L. (2019). What is new in pediatric medication safety? 
Archives of Disease in Childhood
, 
104
(6), 596-599 Annotated Bibliography-Medication Error

Owens, K., Palmore, M., Penoyer, D., & Viers, P. (2020). The effect of implementing bar-code medication administration in an emergency department on medication administration errors and nursing satisfaction. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 46(6), 884-891.

Yousef, N., & Yousef, F. (2017). Using total quality management approach to improve patient safety by preventing medication error incidences. 
BMC health services research
, 
17
(1), 1-16.

 

Annotated Bibliography-Medication Error

Create a 3-5 page annotated bibliography and summary based on your research related to best practices addressing one of the health care problems or issues in the Assessment Topic Areas media piece faced by a health care organization that is of interest to you.

Introduction

In your professional life, you will need to find credible evidence to support your decisions and your plans of action. You will want to keep abreast of best practices to help your organization adapt to the ever-changing health care environment. Being adept at research will help you find the information you need. For this assessment, you will review the Assessment Topic Areas media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues to research, which will be a current health care problem or issue faced by a health care organization that is of interest to you.

Instructions

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

For this assessment, research best practices related to a current health care problem. Your selected problem or issue will be utilized again in Assessment 3. To explore your chosen topic, you should use the first two steps of the
 Socratic Problem-Solving Approach 
to aid your critical thinking.

View the 
Assessment Topic Areas
media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues in the media piece to research. Write a brief overview of the selected topic. In your overview:

Summarize the health care problem or issue.

Describe your interest in the topic.

Describe any professional experience you have with this topic as a Health care provider who has administered numerous and various medication to patients in the past.

Identify peer-reviewed articles relevant to health care issue or problem.

Conduct a search for scholarly or academic peer-reviewed literature related to the topic and describe the criteria you used to search for articles, including the names of the databases you used. You will select four current scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles published during the past 3–5 years that relate to your topic.

I Used “Summon”  database the school’s online Library.  I used key phrases such as “Medication error and “Medication Error in the U.S.A.” and any other phrase along that line.  The articles are peer reviewed.  I Attached them.

Refer to the 
NHS-FPX4000: Developing a Health Care Perspective Library Guide
to help you locate appropriate references.

Use keywords related to the health care problem or issue you are researching to select relevant articles.

Assess the credibility and explain relevance of the information sources you find.

Determine if the source is from an academic peer-reviewed journal.

Determine if the publication is current.

Determine if information in the academic peer-reviewed journal article is still relevant.

Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format. Provide rationale for inclusion of each selected article. The purpose of an annotated bibliography is to document a list of references along with key information about each one. The detail about the reference is the annotation. Developing this annotated bibliography will create a foundation of knowledge about the selected topic. In your annotated bibliography:

Identify the purpose of the article.

Summarize the information.

Provide rationale for inclusion of each article.

Include the conclusions and findings of the article.

Write your annotated bibliography in a paragraph form. The annotated bibliography should be approximately 150 words (1–3 paragraphs) in length.

List the full reference for the source in APA format (author, date, title, publisher, et cetera) and use APA format for the annotated bibliography.

Make sure the references are listed in alphabetical order, are double-spaced, and use hanging indents.

Summarize what you have learned from developing an annotated bibliography.

Summarize what you learned from your research in a separate paragraph or two at the end of the paper.

List the main points you learned from your research.

Summarize the main contributions of the sources you chose and how they enhanced your knowledge about the topic.

Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:

Assessment 2 Example [PDF]
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Additional Requirements

Your Annotated Bibliography-Medication Error assessment should also meet the following requirements:

Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.

Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

APA tutorial: Use the 
APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]
 for guidance.

Written communication: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

Content: Provide a title page and reference page following APA style.

References: Use at least four scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles.

APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citation of outside sources in the body of your paper and also on the reference page.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.

Identify academic peer-reviewed journal articles relevant to a health care problem or issue and describe the criteria used for the literature search.

Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care.

Assess the credibility and relevance of information sources.

Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format.

Summarize what was learned from developing an annotated bibliography.

Annotated Bibliography-Medication Error

Competency 4: Write for a specific audience, in appropriate tone and style.

Summarize a health care problem or issue and describe a personal interest in it and experience with it.

Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.