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Applying Library Research Skills 1 Applying Library Research Skills Deepali Patel Capella University Developing a Health Care Perspective Rita Wunderlich May 2021
2 Applying Library Research Skills Medication errors remain a major cause of patient morbidity and mortality. Over this two-year, Coronavirus has engulfed the whole world in its tangle. More challenges are faced by health care workers today than ever before. There is a significant increase in patients’ admissions to the intensive care unit and other casualties. With COVID-19, opportunities have increased for serious medication errors. Health care providers are being hurried, overwhelmed and emotionally drained taking care of the critically ill patients. Medication errors are being reported less due to significant and understandable lack of time. Working side by side with nurses everyday has opened my eyes to challenges they face with patient in radiation oncology department. Working everyday with the patient you see how our healthcare system is fragmented which contributes significantly to medical errors. Patients tend to see multiple health care providers, and everyone might not have the same access to information as other. There are many medication errors, but the two main ones are prescribing error and wrong dose errors. Prescribing error is when the selection of the medicine is wrong based on patient’s allergies. The form, quantity, route all adds to prescribing error. Wrong dose error is when the correct dose was prescribed but not administered. There are many possible reasons why a medication error occurred, healthcare workers are distracted, the workload, lack of knowledge, incomplete patient information and systemic problems. Knowing the patient is very important. Using all the information at your disposal should ensure patients safety. Rely on your instinct and ask questions. Most important part is keeping the communication line open. Documenting any drug administered is very important. COVID-19 is showing to be a long uphill battle. The horizon seems very far right now. The stress and anxiety caused by the burden of this pandemic is unimaginable on health care workers.
3 Medication error does not just occur as a result of incompetence but there are many factors such as faulty systems and working conditions that contributes to it. Institution should promote error reporting under leaders who are reliable and credible. The reporting system should be confidential, clear and easy to use, as well as helpful. The crisis now has created difficult pathways to health care workers. As a health care worker, treating cancer patients has been stressful with COVID. With COVID, visitors are not allowed at my cancer care. Patient who has language barrier, who are old frail and weak are at a disadvantage since they have no one accompanying them inside the hospital. It is a lot to process once you step in the hospital. Identifying and Assessing Credibility of Information Sources I was able to search into resources from Capella University. From their Library’s database, I went to summon which is a single search box to find articles and other resources. From there I was able to search keywords such as “ medication errors, “and “patient safety.” I was able to find on ProQuest Central database the articles I was looking for. I investigated peer- reviewed journals from recent years through advanced search. To confirm that all contained good information, I only investigated authors who had great knowledge in health care. In each article, I wanted to have a solution to the problems they were experiencing. All the publications are current. Annotated Bibliography Aseeri, M., Banasser, G., Baduhduh, O., Baksh, S., & Ghalibi, N. (2020). Evaluation of medication error incident reports at a tertiary care hospital.  Pharmacy, 8 (2), 69. http://dx.doi.org.library.capella.edu/10.3390/pharmacy8020069
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