An incident report is completed as a result of the pharmacy sending the wrong medication to the unit, even though the medication wasn't administered. Why would the nurse initiate an incident report?
a. To make sure that the pharmacy was blamed for the error and not the nurse
b. To help the pharmacy identify risks and prevent this situation from occurring again
c. To prevent the hospital from a medical malpractice suit
d. To get the healthcare provider's atten-tion about ordering medications
B
The incident report is a risk management tool that enables healthcare providers to identify risks within an agency, analyze them, and act to reduce the risks and evaluate the results. This is also true when deviations from standards occur and not only when actual adverse events happen. Alerting the pharmacy to this type of error should help prevent it from occurring again. There was no problem with the healthcare provider's order, only with how it was filled.
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