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Ethical Issues and Medication Errors

In five pages this paper examines medication error issues from an ethical perspective. Eight sources are cited in the bibliograph...

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...

'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" (...

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...

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...

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...

Increasing the Quality of Care in Nursing

This 16 page paper outlines the elements that need to change for improving quality of nursing care. This paper explains that the p...

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...

Assessment of an IT Web Site

include a jobs section as well as a section containing white papers across a large number of different areas such as SOX complianc...

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...

Reducing Medical Errors

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

Exploring the Fundamental Attribution Error

by someone else, they would likely have an external explanation handy to excuse their behavior, rather than acknowledging any mora...

Cognitive Psychology and Human Error

so resulting in an error (Reason, 1990). Neville (2001) clarifies that there are other distinctions between errors as well which ...

Human Error in Aviation Accidents

can included things like incorrect flight adjustments, incorrect equipment use, and poor skills in emergency reaction. Because of...

Comparison of the Health Care Systems in Canada and America

In twelve pages this research paper contrasts and compares the advantages of Canada's public approach to health care as opposed to...

Health Care and Poverty in Urban America

This formula, at 1994s standards, placed the poverty line at $14,800 for a family of four, no matter if they were in the urban Nor...

1995 Plan for Health Care Savings

In eleven pages this paper considers 1995's H.R. 323 with the emphasis upon health care savings and applications to later tax defe...

Importance of a US National Program for Health Care

their cost in the treatment of the condition. Other insurance companies will chose not to insure the individual with the pre-exis...

An Overview of Clinical Pathways

Clinical Pathways can be important to saving the health care system of this country, according to this paper. It gives an overview...

Defeat of the The Boren Medical Reform Bill

In four pages a health care provider reviews the Boren Amendment and opines that its demise is in the best interest of health care...

The National Health Care System in Canada

Fifteen pages and 14 sources. This paper relates the fact of the increasing discontentment with the universal health care system ...

American System of Health Care

In seven pages an examination of the U.S. health care system includes discussion of general health care issues of coverage, physic...

Marrone and His Vision of Dying Dying

Death and dying are a major concern in American society today. Robert Marrone addressed the various issues in Death, Mourning, and...

An Overview of the Health Care System in the United States

The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...

Home Health Care Marketing

In five pages this paper examines how to market home health care with a local marketer interviewed and a community facility that f...

Leadership in Health Care

In nine pages this paper examines health care leadership in a consideration of such topics as policy, whether or not health care s...

Science of Healthcare

In twelve pages the scientific practice of health care is described in a consideration of the relationship between health care and...