Research Medication Errors – Medical Science Assignment Help

Assignment Task

 

Research Report
In this research project, you are required to research medication errors, follow the organisational policy and procedure for addressing medication errors and discuss examples and prevention strategies. 
Research Proposals in a Nutshell:
The basic purposes of all research proposals are to convince the reader that:
the research project has clear objectives;
the research project is worth doing (it is significant/ important in some sense and will make an original contribution to knowledge / understanding in the field)
the proposed methods are suitable and feasible;
there is a well thought through plan for achieving the research objectives in the available time frame.
Note that it is not enough to simply describe previous works, your project, and your methods.
Assessment conditions: You must complete this research project using word-processing software 
You must follow the requirements of word limits to complete all activities in this assessment task 

1. A number of different categories of medication errors are provided below, you will be required to research and identify the definition of each of them. 
Medication error  Definition.
Omission error Wrong dose error Extra dose error Wrong dosage form error Wrong time error 

2. Three categories/classes of failure of medication errors are listed in the table below. You are required to identify the possible cause and provide an example for each. 
Error Cause Example 
Human failure  Technical failure  Organisational failure 

3. Three categories/classes of failure of medication errors are listed in the table below. You are required to identify the possible root cause and provide an example for each. 
Error Cause Example 
Assumption error  Selection error  Capture error