Nursing actions for a safe medications administration: an integrative review

Abstract: Objective: to present the published nursing actions on the prevention of errors in the administration of medications in the ICU. Method: This is a bibliographical research including articles about nursing actions in the prevention of errors in medication administration, published in the period from 2005 to 2011 indexed in the bases: LILACS, BDENF and SCIELO. Results: 13 articles that met the selection criteria were selected and analyzed. It was evidenced that the actions for the prevention of errors in drug administration comprise numerous actions, which were described from each type of error. Conclusion: Nursing should know the types of errors and adopt specific actions to prevent errors in medication administration

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online ; 6 (2014) 4 ; 1655-1665

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2014

Further information

• DOI: 10.9789/2175-5361.2014.v6i4.1655-1665
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-54582-2
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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