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Medication Error Reduction Lesson Plan

deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...

ADHD and ADD and School Compulsory Medication

conspiracy to boost the sales of Ritalin (Lan, 2001). The case, Hernandez v. Ciba Geigy alleges that that the APA colluded with th...

Nursing Practice and Medication Errors

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

'Applying Airline Safety Practices to Medication Administration' Article Review

establish policy guidelines. In the administration of medication, "processes have been virtually ignored in the search for EBP" (...

'Medication Shortage' 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

In three pages this paper analyzes an article on shortage of medication from an Australian sociological perspective. There are no...

Nursing Profession and Medication Errors

that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...

Health Promotion Role of Practitioner When Clients Refuse Antipsychotic Medications Because of Side Effects

to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

ANALYSIS OF A MEDICATION ERROR

of 5-10 years. When the couple moved to Arkansas, the patient started visiting a new family practitioner. Because the pat...

Medication Administration, Study Critique

airline research, which indicates how errors occur. Additional subtopic include the standard hospital protocol and how the "five r...

Are Children Today Receiving Too Much Medication?

pill for a minor ailment only serves to build up the bodys immunity so that if it is taken enough, it will no longer be effective ...

Adverse Drug Reactions and Metabolic Changes Associated with Antipsychotic Medications

as typical or traditional (first generation) and atypical (second generation) (Blake, 2006). Typical antipsychotic medications ar...

Computerized System in the Prevention of Medication Errors

care (OMalley, 2007). The aim of this essay is to offer an overview of this problem, focusing on how it applies to a specific ho...

An Article on Psychotrophic Medications Reviewed

are divided several sections. The tricyclic antidepressants are commonly used for the treatment of depressive disorders, anxiety d...

Common Medications and Their Patient Information, Procedural Recommendations, and Side Effects

In forty two pages this paper examines drugs that are commonly prescribed for various conditions in a consideration of monitoring ...

Human Body and the Impact of Drugs

been ingested (1997). While ecstasy can last in the body for many days, what are the long term effects of this dangerous substan...

Viagra and Sexual Dysfunction

well (Auerbach, 2002). Indeed, impotence is a topic which men experience great difficulty talking about and even physicians ofte...

CMI Negotiation Case

for a total of $9 million, $8 million to use to build the company and $1 million for the purchase with a price offered ?600,000 mo...

World Trade Organizatioin's TRIPS and Public Health Declaration of 2001

the United States and elsewhere, and developing nations came about at the November 2001, World Trade Organization, which took plac...

Geriatrics and Orthostasis

blood pressure within the veins drops, too. The volume of the blood is what maintains the pressure on the vein walls. As a result,...

Medicalization Of Depression

the symptoms for diagnosing clinical depression. There must be at least five symptoms from the list that have lasted for at least ...

Pharmacist Ethics - Australia

the issues facing pharmacists in many countries is distance dispensing of medication. The concept of the mail-order pharmacy is de...

Schizophrenia and Weight Gain

exposes patients to new health risks by increasing their tendency to gain weight. Interventions that address the potential for wei...

Non-punitive Nursing Culture/Medical Errors

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Violating Nursing Protocol

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

Hospital Setting and Administration of Medication in a Consideration of Competence Building Through Reflection, Experience, and Training

is overwhelmingly female, though nursing also is experiencing a gender shift as more men come to the profession than at any time i...

Overview of Meditation

consciousness where the mind is not aware of anything in particular. During mediation, breathing slows and practitioners tend to p...

Orem's Self Care Theory Application

overall, there is nonetheless a reduced life expectancy by as much as one-third, with increased chances of blindness, kidney disea...