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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...

Medication Errors & Their Prevention

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

Efficacy of Bar Code Medication Administration

This research paper offers a literature review of studies that pertain to bar code medication administration (BCMA) systems. The p...

Use of Information Technologies in University Libraries

automation is also responsible for the creation and maintenance of digital technologies, which now make it possible to generate in...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

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...

Errors in Medication and Nursing Prevention

for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...

An Analysis of Medication Errors

it can be catastrophic. Indeed, in England and Wales recent medication errors have resulted in thirty-seven deaths (Nursing Stand...

Patient Safety and Human Factors

This research paper pertains to nursing errors that threaten patient safety, such as medication errors. Five pages in length, five...

Medication Errors

in control of the medication. Worse, not all medication errors are reported. If the wrong medication has reached the patient, the...

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 ...

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...

Nike; Computerized Interviewing Process Case Study

personal contact during the initial stages of the application process some applicants may be deterred from following through the a...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Electronic Documentation, Making the Switch

documentation towards the use of electronic medical records (EMRs). This frequently, however, causes conflict among nursing staff,...

An Overdoes of Intravenous Medication and a Change Theory Application

while in the hospital plus the incidence of symptoms and/or disease that would have initially required use of the medication. In ...

Criminal Justice System and the Effects of Technology

details. Digital enhancement of such evidence has made the retrieval and identification of even the tiniest and most illegible ev...

Paper Based System Replacement by the Development of a Computerized System

In six pages an existing paper based system is replaced by a computerized based system with DBMS aspects discussed. Four sources ...

Connecticut's Core CT system and Government 'Red Tape'

as to whether or not such methods can work in the long run. Though Core-CTs implementation is still underway, it is helpful to us ...

A Hypothetical Research Study/Chessie System

agreed upon strategy," in which the CPS employees works cooperatively with parents to reduce risk, moving families toward specific...

Baltimore’s Child Protective Services & Chessie

the promise by officials that Chessie would give workers ready access to thousands of case files on a statewide basis had yet to m...

The Potential of a New Information System; GIS Case Study

whose job it is to prepare the quotations based ion the paperwork that the advisers send them. If we look at the information syste...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

Justification of Commercial Advantages of Computerised Loan Management Systems Over Manually Based Systems

This 5 page paper examines how and why computerization of the loan management process is superior to the former manual systems. Th...

Health Care Industry and Medication Errors

potential for depression. It stands to reason, therefore, that if nurses in critical care units are experiencing higher rates of ...

Preventing Medication Error Change Project

for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...

'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 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...

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...

Nursing's Philosophical Issues

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...