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Melissa Davis1, Jessica Coviello
1Author Affiliations: Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing (Dr Davis), Hartwick College, Department of Nursing, Oneonta, New York; and Associate Professor (Dr Coviello), Yale School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Background:
Medication errors, now thought to be 4 times greater than previous estimates, harm patients, families, health care institutions, and nurses themselves, who are second victims of their mistakes.
Problem:
Current nursing education may lack coherent medication safety frameworks other than the classic Five Rights construct.
Approach:
This project piloted an educational intervention with senior associate degree nursing students based on high-reliability organization (HRO) safety principles.
Outcomes:
Subjects evaluated the HRO safety concepts learning experience positively and improved pretest to posttest scores by 74%.
Conclusions:
This study demonstrates subjects' ready acceptance and comprehension of HRO safety theory as applied to medication safety, an alternative to the Five Rights construct.
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