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Basic Principles of Medication Administration

order must be provided and understood in order to ensure that proper administration occurs. Nurses must be aware of the factors im...

Overview of Medication Errors

the University of California at San Diego, researchers analyzed over 62 million death certificates for the years 1979 through 2006...

Psychiatric Drugs

is excreted from the body. By the time the drug goes through membranes and organs, less than 100 percent of the drug is available ...

Antipsychotic Drugs and Autism

psychotropic medications in psychology, in general, and with autism, in particular. This discussion will include movements in psyc...

The Thao Case/Medication Error

prohibited from working over 12 hours in a 24-hour period or more than 60 hours per week for 2 years ("Criminal case," 2007). Th...

A Qualitative Assessment of Medication Errors

quantitative aspect of the research by Koppel et al. provides a very different approach to understanding the issue. The quantitat...

Critique of Bohomol, Ramos and D'Innocenzo (2009)

of a research article is "an impersonal evaluation of the strengths and limitations of the research being reviewed" (Coughlan, Cro...

Medication Communication/Concept Analysis using Orem's Theory

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...

Two Article Summaries

effectiveness of a computer-based access that informed primary care physicians of all prescriptions dispensed to specific patients...

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

Pharmacological Overview of Asthma

the attack from happening at all. This can be of immense relief to those accustomed to suffering from debilitating asthma attacks,...

Reducing Medical Errors

focuses on methods to reduce errors and also improve the safety will focus on individual nursing skills and adherence to protocols...

Two Types of Healthcare Information Systems

opportunity to lower costs, decrease errors and promote increased productivity. The following paper examines two types of healthca...

Motivational Interviewing for Addicts

be an effective model with substance abuse. 2. Controversy using medication in recovery treatment Until the relatively recent pa...

Medication Errors

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

Self-Medication in Schizophrenics

genes tends to be normalized (Leonard, Mexal, & Freedman, 2007). Likewise, such a genetic phenomenon might explain the tendency ...

Medications and Bipolar Disorder

sleep problems, fatigue, and problems concentrating, among others (Ketter and Wang, 2010). Diagnosing bipolar disorder accuratel...

Overview of Adolescent Depression

of morbidity and mortality and depression among youth has become increasing prevalent. Adolescent depression has been shown to gen...

Issues Concerning Childhood Depression

the childs life. Children are not simply adults in miniature, as their bodies and organ function are in a continual state of deve...

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...

NPs Prescribing/Alberta

In 1999, Albertas Nursing Profession Act Extended Practice Roster Regulation provided province authorities with the legal capacity...

Oppositing to Medicating Children with ADD or ADHD

with ADHD/ADD has only a very limited effectiveness, and the side effects and risks associated with it are simply too great. The ...

The Impact of Adult ADD/ADHD on Education

diagnosis of ADD is an extremely complex process, which is complicated by the fact that the symptoms are very similar to other emo...

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...

3 Research Studies' Literature Review

in all. General weaknesses : The sample population all came from the same hospital, which may limited the applicability of the f...

Treatment Alternatives for CHF Besides Surgery

performed are not always that promising. To further complicate the success of SVR the age-old problem of surgery-related depressi...

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 ...

Overview of Antidepressant Escitalopram

of depression. BACKGROUND Escitalopram is an oral drug which is intended to be used for the treatment of depression and generali...

Sppech Pathology and ADHD

Center for Health Statistics, approximately 6.7% of children aged 5 to 17 were reported to have ADHD in 1997-2000" (Attention Defi...

Treatment and Adolescent Depression

2006). Marcotte and colleagues (2002) note that a great deal of progress has been made in this field over the last two decades but...