A nurse administers the wrong medication to a patient. The charge nurse reminds the nurse to complete a critical occurrence report describing what had occurred. What is the goal of the critical occurrence report?
1. Critical occurrence reports are completed if the event has harmed the patient.
2. Ethical issues such as medication errors are reported to the ethical society of the institution.
3. Prevention of future errors can be improved by the report and investigation of the critical occurrence reports.
4. Nurses can be found liable of medication errors and lose their job.
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Rationale 1:Critical occurrence reports are completed to investigate and improve the medication administration process.
Rationale 2: Reporting of medication errors is considered the legal and ethical responsibility, but errors are not reported to the ethical society of the institution.
Rationale 3:All errors should be reported and investigated by the use of critical occurrence reports.
Rationale 4:Nurses have a legal and ethical responsibility to report medication errors. However, not all nurses who are involved in medication errors lose their job.
Global Rationale: All errors, whether or not they harm the patient, should be reported and investigated with the goal of identifying ways to improve the medication administration process to prevent future errors.
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