Discuss the nursing responsibilities for administering oral medications to ensure medication safety
Discuss the nursing responsibilities for administering oral medications to ensure medication safety. Within your discussion you will also need to identify and discuss issues that predispose nurses to making common medication errors.
Read the article written by Wright, K. (2013) titled ‘The role of nurses in medicine administration errors’ which is uploaded in VU Collaborate.
Task – Discuss the nursing responsibilities for administering oral medications to ensure medication safety. Within your discussion you will also need to identify and discuss issues that predispose nurses to making common medication errors. Please note that the article by Wright (2013) is only one article which provides some initial background information. You are required to read more widely and utilise other academic literature/evidence to support your discussion within your essay.
