Question

..Optus 4G 2:33 pm 64% During handover, you find that one 14) vour clients is having high doses of IV Antibiotics administered as an infusion in 50ml Normal Saline over 30 minutes. Clie is complaining of severe pain at the IV sit nausea, dizziness and increased fatigue. Drug administration guidelines state the medication should be given in 250ml Normal Saline over two hours. 14.1) After identifying this drug error, explain your actions. Feedba 14.2) What recording and reporting shou be done with medication errors?

Answer 1

1) After identitying this deug error, patient safety is ensured first. Symptom based treatment has be given.

The health care providers need a ready access to the information about maximum rate of administration of the medication and the risk associated with it when given too fast in IV. This information should be given as an alert in pharmacy applied product labels. Make the warnings appear in the automated dispense screens.

A least concentrated solution of drug help to avoid administration too fast.

2) Record the medicine related safeguards incidents in details in an accurate manner. Record them immediately after the incident has occurred. In many cases the nurses will not report errors because of fear of consequences associated with reporting or when the patient has no harm. It should be reported to agency’s safety information and adverse events reporting programs.