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Chapter Review Medic
Chapter Review Medication Safety
Medication Error Category A: | No error |
Medication Error Category B: | Error; no harm. Error did not reach patient. |
Medication Error Category C: | Error; no harm. Error reached patient but did not cause harm. |
Medication Error Category D: | Error; no harm. Error did not cause harm but patient needed monitoring. |
Medication Error Category E: | Error; harm. Error may have contributed to or resulted in temporary harm. |
Medication Error Category F: | Error; harm. Error may have contributed to or resulted in temporary harm that led to hospitalization. |
Medication Error Category I: | Error; death. Error that may have contributed in death. |
Medications with high incidence of medication errors: | Insulin, morphine, potassium chloride, albuterol, heparin, vancomycin, cefazolin, acetaminophen, warfarin, and furosemide. |
Patient rights: | Drug, dose, dosage form, route of administration, and time. |
Common high-alert medication: | Adrenergic agonist (Epinephrine), antithrombotics agents (blood thinners), chemotherapeutics agents, hypoglycemics, insulins, moderate sedation agents, and narcotics. |
Medications on timely administration must be administered within: | 30 minutes of time of administration. |
Potentially inappropriate medications for elderly: | Anticholinergic, benzodiazepines, nonbenzodiazepine sedatives, androgens, estrogen with or without progestins, insulin, sulfonylureas, NSAIDS, aspirin, skeletal muscle relaxants, and oral decongestants. |
Patient Package Inserts (PPI) have: | Description, clinical pharmacy , indications and usage, contraindications, warning, precautions, adverse reactions, drug abuse and dependence, overdosage, dosage and administration, how supplied, and date of the most recent revision of labeling. |