Medication errors in health care
The instructions
The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
Describe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 (from the Assessment Topic Areas media piece) and provide details about it.
Explore your chosen topic. For this, you should use the first four steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking. This approach was introduced in Assessment 2.
Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.
Use scholarly information to describe and explain the health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic.
You may find the How Do I Find Peer-Reviewed Articles? library guide helpful in locating appropriate references.
You may use articles you found while working on Assessment 2 or you may search the Capella library for other articles.
You may find the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide helpful in your search.
Review the Think Critically About Source Quality to help you complete the following:
Assess the credibility of the information sources.
Assess the relevance of the information sources.
Analyze the health care problem or issue.
Describe the setting or context for the problem or issue.
Describe why the problem or issue is important to you.
Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue.
Provide examples that support your analysis of the problem or issue.
Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue.
Describe what would be required to implement a solution.
Describe potential consequences of ignoring the problem or issue.
Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
Explain the ethical principles (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if potential solution was implemented.
Describe what would be necessary to implement the proposed solution.
Explain the ethical principles that need to be considered (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if the potential solution was implemented.
Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.
These are the sources:
Cleary-Holdforth, J., & Leufer, T. (2020). Senior nursing studentsʼ perceptions of their readiness for Oral Medication Administration prior to final year internship. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 39(1), 23–32. https://doi.org/10.1097/dcc.0000000000000401
Lowe, A. A., Gerald, J. K., Clemens, C., Gaither, C., & Gerald, L. B. (2021). Medication administration practices in United States’ schools: A systematic review and meta-synthesis. The Journal of School Nursing, 38(1), 21–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/10598405211026300
Sloss, E. A., & Jones, T. L. (2019). Alert types and frequencies during bar code–assisted medication administration. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 35(3), 265–269. https://doi.org/10.1097/ncq.0000000000000446
Veen, W., Taxis, K., Wouters, H., Vermeulen, H., Bates, D. W., Bemt, P. M., Duyvendak, M., Oude Luttikhuis, K., Ros, J. J., Vasbinder, E. C., Atrafi, M., Brasse, B., & Mangelaars, I. (2020). Factors associated with workarounds in barcode‐assisted medication administration in Hospitals. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29(13-14), 2239–2250. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15217