PHRM 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Addressograph, Medical Error, Dosage Form
Document Summary
Continuity of care: medication coordination and medication safety. Devoted to medication error prevention and safe medication use. Helps healthcare practitioners keep patients safe and leads efforts to improve medication use process. Advocate for med safety through analysis and prevention of medication incidents. Identify risks in systems, recommend safeguards and advance safe med practices. Research showed that most errors occur at the time of prescribing . Patient name & id 2 unique identifiers (use an addressograph) Medication name unabbreviated, generic name (except for combination products) Route of administration (use approved abbreviations, format & units) Frequency of dosing (use approved abbreviations, format & units) Prn, with additional dosing criteria max dose, frequency, clinical criteria. Legible prescriber id signature, printed name, college id. Clearly write ranges or sliding scale (with dosing increments) Neither is accepted as a safe practice but allowable in emergent care" such as life threatening situation or during surgery.
