Key result
Nurses in the intensive care unit play an essential role in identifying, evaluating, and averting medication errors to prevent patient harm from inappropriate drug usage.
Highlights the importance of nurses in identifying and preventing medication errors in the ICU.
Supports ICU nurse involvement in medication error prevention; leaves open whether targeted interventions reduce actual harm rates.
In Brief Nurses need to identify, evaluate, and avert medication errors, along with avoiding any preventable drug usage that may lead to patient harm in the ICU.
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Dalal et al. (2015) studied this question. Nurses in the intensive care unit play an essential role in identifying, evaluating, and averting medication errors to prevent patient harm from inappropriate drug usage.
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