Medication Errors - Angeles

HOIY AI{GEL UNI\TERSITY GRADUATE ^SCHOOL OF NURSING

First Trimester School Year 2Ol2 - ²⁰¹³

Medication Errors: An At"b*is of

Contributing ^Factors

A

SPECIAL PROIECT

Presented to the Graduate School Holy Angel University

In Partial Fulfillnent

of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in Nursing Maioring in Adult Health Nursing

By:

MARIEDHEL A. DE GUZMAN

HOL,Y

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Medication Errors: An Att"lytis of

Contributing ^Factors

MariedhelA. De Guzman Abstract

To

summarize and evaluate

flurent

evidence gotdiog provision of the factors that contributes on the occr.urences of medication

erors.

To be able

to draw a mueh more in depth informadon of

effects

of

tlie problem and cluster same data

from

what is already known and lastly

to

come up

with

a

list

of recommendation

for

medication errors.

Only articles published in ^English

^language

^were

considered. Different search strategies identified reports

in

Ebscohost, Pubmed, JIAPS, ISPUB, Cochrane Library, Medbc articles

from

2000-20L2. Data regarding the effects and factors of inedication elTors

in tlie

citations are included

in

this paper. The review of studies search gave us 50 published researches

that

tackle about

the

factors

on

medication

elrors. But only

26 have met the inclusion criteria. These studies clearly stated different factors

why

medication errors

occur.

Taking

into

considerations these factors

the

researcher can reconmend steps

or

procedures

that

can minimize these occurrences of errors.

Keywords: errors, medication, factors