Medication errors can range from giving to much medicine, not enough medication, or even the wrong kind of medication. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that 1.5 million patients are harmed each year because of medication errors. Let that sink in. Around 1.5 million people’s lives are being affected each year because mistakes are being made. Mistakes that are preventable. According to Medication Errors from an Emergency Room Setting: Safety Solutions for Nurses: medication errors cause more than 7,000 deaths per year in the United States. That is approximately 19 deaths per day. Incorrect dosage causes a lot of the medication errors that are seen. A sentinel evert alert stated that “47% of opioid-related adverse events in the hospitals… resulted from incorrect dosages” (Myers-Glower, M.). But hospitals are not the only place that medication errors are
Medication errors can range from giving to much medicine, not enough medication, or even the wrong kind of medication. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that 1.5 million patients are harmed each year because of medication errors. Let that sink in. Around 1.5 million people’s lives are being affected each year because mistakes are being made. Mistakes that are preventable. According to Medication Errors from an Emergency Room Setting: Safety Solutions for Nurses: medication errors cause more than 7,000 deaths per year in the United States. That is approximately 19 deaths per day. Incorrect dosage causes a lot of the medication errors that are seen. A sentinel evert alert stated that “47% of opioid-related adverse events in the hospitals… resulted from incorrect dosages” (Myers-Glower, M.). But hospitals are not the only place that medication errors are