NURS FPX4020 Assignment1 Attempt1.docx NURS-FPX 4020 Enhancing Quality and Safety: Med

NURS FPX4020   Assignment1 Attempt1.docx  NURS-FPX 4020  Enhancing Quality and Safety: Medication Errors  Capella University  NURS-FPX4020: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety  Enhancing Quality and Safety: Medication Errors  Medication administration is a critical process impacting patient care daily. There are many factors affecting medication administration which in turn, leads to administration errors. When a medication administration error occurs, there are effects on patient care, so preventing medication administration errors is imperative. Hospitals and facilities must implement procedures and policies that make the medication administration process safer and more efficient.  Medication Errors  Elements of the Issue  The nine rights of medication administration seek to decrease the occurrence of medication administration errors. These rights include: the right patient, the right drug, the right route, the right dose, the tight time, the right form, the right documentation, the right action, and the right response. These nine rights are the framework that nurses follow when administering medications. As humans, we rely on our thought processes to perform actions. “The thought process can be broken down into 2 steps: planning and execution” [ CITATION Pop16 \l 1033 ]. Errors can occur throughout either of these two steps, unfortunately making medication errors even more difficult to avoid.  Violation of the Nine Rights  Medication errors occur throughout the many phases of medication administration