From: Medication administration error: magnitude and associated factors among nurses in Ethiopia
Type of MAEs | Some observed examples |
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Technique error | Mostly during administration, the nurses used only one glove for different patients and they are not changed the glove even if it has visible contamination. |
Most of the nurses did not wash their hands before medication administration. | |
Some of the nurses had not used safe wastage disposal system like they remain the injectable syringe and vial container at the patient bed. | |
Wrong route | The observer observed while Insuline given intradermally instead of subcutaneous route. |
Missed drug (doss) | Quinine mostly was run for more than 8 h instead of 4 h and the 2nd dose missed. |
Methrindazole IV medication mostly missed at 2 PM. | |
Time error | Most 6 PM medications were being given at 4:30 PM. |
Documentation error | Most of the nurses did not document after administration of the drug. |
If the nurses documented before administering the medications, they did not cancelled what they documented even if the patient refused or can’t afford to buy the drug. | |
Dose error | Instead of administering 2 g of Ceftriaxone, the nurse administered 1 g. |
Usually at pediatric ward, the nurse did not calculate the exact doses of medication. | |
Unauthorized drug error | Instead of IV Ciprofloxaciline, IV Ceftriaxone was administered. The observer observed a nurse while she was giving Quinine IV instead of Plasil IV. |