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Medication errors

Medication errors are the number-one patient safety issue at most medical facilities.

You are a member of the risk management team at a medical facility. You have been assigned to develop a professional paper that will assist nurse managers in reducing the number of errors made by new employees concerning medication. Your paper should include all of the following:

  • Discuss the most frequent cause and incidence rate of medication errors at a medical facility.

  • Incorporate the continuous quality improvement process into the identification, implementation, and measure of the plan to reduce the medication errors.

  • Discuss the rationale for reducing the errors.

  • Give at least 2 actions that the nurse should take to assist with the reduction of errors.

  • Cite at least 3 scholarly sources. Two of the sources must be recent (within the past 5 years), and the third source must come from an Institutes of Medicine (IOM) report that is related to medication errors.

APA style.