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High Alert Medications: Assessment of Nurses' Knowledge and Practice among Critically Ill Patients - Couverture souple

Samy, Reda; Khalil, Nahla; Yousseif, Warda

 
9783659577710: High Alert Medications: Assessment of Nurses' Knowledge and Practice among Critically Ill Patients
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659577715 ISBN 13 : 9783659577710
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Nurses' lack of knowledge is considered to be one of the most significant factors contributing to medication administration errors. Although any medication can cause harm when used improperly, high alert medications are more likely to cause harm, and the harm they produce is likely to be more serious.As well, nurses working in intensive care units are always overloaded; they are dealing with more than one critically ill patient at a time, managing emergent situations and administering a lot of medications to those patients. Most of those medications are categorized as" high alert medications" .Moreover, there are scanty researches done into this area. Therefore, there are intense need to assess nurses' knowledge and practice regarding those types of medications.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Nurses' lack of knowledge is considered to be one of the most significant factors contributing to medication administration errors. Although any medication can cause harm when used improperly, high alert medications are more likely to cause harm, and the harm they produce is likely to be more serious.As well, nurses working in intensive care units are always overloaded; they are dealing with more than one critically ill patient at a time, managing emergent situations and administering a lot of medications to those patients. Most of those medications are categorized as" high alert medications" .Moreover, there are scanty researches done into this area. Therefore, there are intense need to assess nurses' knowledge and practice regarding those types of medications.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mr.Reda Samy is currently a M.Sc candidate in the Department of Critical Care and Emergency Nursing at Faculty of Nursing- Cairo University, Egypt.His current research areas include assessment of nurses regarding selected high alert medications among critically ill patients in different intensive care units.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659577715
ISBN 13 
9783659577710
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
112
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