News spotlight: Hospital averts five rights-related medication errors
Nurse Leader Weekly, November 10, 2008
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Every nurse knows verifying the five rights—the right medication, the right dose, the right route, the right patient, and the right time—before administering medication is paramount to patient safety, but even despite these efforts medication errors still occur.
Oconee Medical Center in Seneca, SC, is providing nurses with an extra degree of security that helps cut medication errors by introducing a wireless, handheld bar-code scanner, IntelliDOT Bedside Medication Administration. According to IntelliDOT Corp., the facility has achieved a 100% reduction in five preventable rights-related errors since the introduction of the device.
The company says the device complies with a variety of Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) standards, including patient identification. Nurses use it to scan patients' wristbands at the bedside before administering medication and to document medications.
Sources: MarketWatch.com and IntelliDOT.com
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