Effectiveness of Teaching Standardized Protocol on Safe Medication Administration Process Upon the Level of Knowledge among Nurses at a Tertiary Care Hospital, Chennai
Keywords:
Medication errors, health care delivery, lack of communication, monitoring side effects of drugs, adverse drug reactions, sentinel events, high-risk and alert medications, strategies to reduce medication errors and legal implicationsAbstract
Strategies to improve medication safety focused on acute care settings. Twenty-six studies and descriptions of quality improvement projects were identified. Strategies used to focus on recommendations to prevent medication errors at various stages, from a nationwide voluntary organization to improve safety of patients and empower education system of nurses and other health care providers in safe practices in health care system and vast growing technology.