Medication Safety + nursing

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

found several gem articles while google surfing today and just had to share.

attacking the medication error problem http://www.safer.healthcare.ucla.edu/gl/pdf/lumetra1.pdf

globalrph clinical links: 5 star rating :) :) :) :) :)

http://www.globalrph.com/clinlinks.htm

iv drug dilution list

http://www.globalrph.com/dilutionlist.htm

ismp: [color=#397574]more on avoiding opiate toxicity with pca by proxy

http://www.ismp.org/msaarticles/pcaprint.htm

[color=#397574]intimidation: practitioners speak up about this unresolved problem (part i)

survey examines intimidation by prescribers

amnews: april 26, 2004. survey examines intimidation by ...

[color=#397574]medication safety alert!http://www.ismp.org/msaarticles/recentarticles.html

[color=#397574]ismp medication safety alert! nurse advise-err, a medication safety newsletter designed specifically to meet the needs of nurses who transcribe medication orders, administer medications, and monitor the effects of medications on patients. this monthly, two-page newsletter will be offered free to nurses during 2005.

[GingerSue]

Thanks, this is most useful.

I had been thinking about a patient whose son one day demanded that I inject something into his father from an unlabelled container. He insisted it was B12. I refused because there was no prescription, and in addition, nurses can't inject something from a container that has no label!

[SmilingBluEyes]

Never can we be reminded too much, Karen, the gravity and weight of what we do, including administering meds. Thank you for these articles, Karen. I will read all of them, for I never say "it can't happen to me"....I just pray I dont' make a med error each time I go to work!