Healthcare Problem

Instructions: Analyzing a current healthcare problem or issue THE PROBLEM/ISSUE IS MEDICATION ERROR Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. Describe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 (MEDICATION ERRORS) (from the Assessment Topic Areas | Transcript media piece) and provide details about it. Explore your chosen topic. For this, you should use the first four steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking.  Identify possible causes for the problem or issue. Use scholarly information to describe and explain the health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it. Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic.  locate appropriate references. Review the Think Critically About Source Quality to help you complete the following: Assess the credibility of the information sources. Assess the relevance of the information sources. Analyze the health care problem or issue. Describe the setting or context for the problems or issues. Describe why the problem or issue is important to you. Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue. Provide examples that support your analysis of the problem or issue. Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue. Describe what would be required to implement a solution. Describe potential consequences of ignoring the problem or issue. Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing. Analyze the ethical implications if the potential solution (the one for which you provide pros and cons) were to be implemented. Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making. Discuss the pros and cons of implementing the proposed solution from an ethical principle point of view. Describe what would be required to implement the proposed solution Short Description: A medication error is a preventable adverse effect of a patient taking the wrong medication or dosage, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. Medication errors can be a source of serious patient harm, including death. Potential Intervention Approaches: – Medical staff education – Packaging improvements – Patient medication safety training Keywords for Articles: medication administration, medication errors, medication safety