The Nurse's Role in Medication Safety

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Written especially for nurses in all disciplines and health care settings, "The Nurses' Role in Medication Safety" focuses on the hands-on role nurses play in the delivery of care and their unique opportunity and responsibility to identify potential medication safety issues. It provides nurses with practical strategies and real-life examples to improve medication safety in their healthcare organizations. This books also offers expert advice from nurses and researchers on how to: develop effective medication reconciliation processes that make use of a nurse's unique abilities in the area of preventing medication errors; address repetitive error patterns; work with other nurses, pharmacists, and physicians as partners in medication safety; encourage nurses to report medication errors; use human factors engineering solutions to help nurses improve medication safety; use technology (such as smart pumps and computerized prescriber order entry) to help nurses improve medication safety; and, address the ethical and moral effects of a nurse's role in medication safety.