Review Questions
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CH. 12
1. Provide two examples of possible patient safety issues related to medication errors and
adverse drug events and demonstrate how a healthcare organization could avoid these safety issues
with effective policies and procedures.
Patient safety issues are mainly related with medication error or adverse drug effects. Medication error
can be defined as the failure of planned action to be completed as intended. Another common issue occurs
during providing healthcare adverse drug event on improper transfusion. Type of medication errors
include delay for informing diagnosis for disease. Failure in doing the laboratory tests. Failure to act as
maintaining agent for observing patients. For development, the healthcare can implement some of the
below things. Clinical practice guideline should be made. Cost effective manner should be applied.
Patient centered case management tools should be facilitated. Risk factors should be identified and
focused.
2. A physician provided an order for a patient to receive Tylenol if his or her temperature was “>
99.5 degrees F” Is this an acceptable medication order? Why or why not?
No, this is not an acceptable medication order because analgesic Tylenol is given only when the
temperature is above 100 ° F, 99.5°F is normal. The patient should be observed for raise in temperature
