V FPX4020 Assessment1 2.docx Running head: IDENTIFYING MEDICATION ERRORS NURS-FPX4020 I

V FPX4020 Assessment1 2.docx  Running head: IDENTIFYING MEDICATION ERRORS  NURS-FPX4020  Identifying Medication Errors  Capella University  NURS-FPX4020  Identifying Medication Errors  Nursing is one of the most admirable careers in healthcare and nurses make up the majority of time with their patients. As nurses strive to achieve optimal care for each of their patients, medication errors are a healthcare issue that is prevalent in the healthcare field among nurses across the United States.  Studies show that medication errors have been made by over 64% of nurses and approximately 31% of these nurses reported these errors (Gorgich, Barfroshan, Ghoreishi & Yaghoobi, 2016).  Medication errors are a major problem in the field of nursing and are most often avoidable. The most common types of these errors are giving the wrong dosage  or infusion rates and the most common reasons for errors are high nurse-patient ratios, u