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Improve Safety of Using Medication Your name Institution Date Improve Safety Of Using Medication Patient Safety means freedom from unintentional injuries caused by medical care, abuse of services or lack of medical errors. Medical error is any avoidable event that can lead or cause an inappropriate use of medication or client injury while the control of the drug is under the supervision of a health care professional. Making errors are an essential part of any individual’s life. Most of the errors start from the behavioral and cognitive adaptations, which result in the development of the right behavioral skills. Carrying out medical orders are an essential part of the process of healing and caring for the patient. Also, an integral component of the nursing performance is the prominent role in the safety of the patient. Medication errors can affect the treatment cost and safety of the patient causing hazards for the sick person and their family. One of the critical duty of any nurse is giving medicine because of the resulting errors might have unintended, serious outcome for the patient. Medication errors can result in adverse consequences such as increased hospital duration of the patient, increased injuries or death cases, and increased expenses on medication. Despite the fact that most all health care members can cause a medical error, nurses commit most of the common medication errors. Since nurses are the one’s who execute most of the medical orders in hospitals and 40 percent of their time in the hospital is spent administering medicines. The rates of Medication errors caused by nurses are high both in developing and developed countries. Studies show
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