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Implementing AORN recommended practices for medication safety provides guidance to perioperative nurses to reduce medication errors through risk recognition, collaboration, and policy development.
Implementing AORN recommended practices provides strategies for perioperative nurses to improve medication safety and reduce errors.
May guide perioperative medication safety policies; leaves open the need for prospective validation of error reduction.
Medication errors in the perioperative setting can result in patient morbidity and mortality. The AORN "Recommended practices for medication safety" provide guidance to perioperative nurses in developing, implementing, and evaluating safe medication use practices. These practices include recognizing risk points in the medication use process, collaborating with pharmacy staff members, conducting preoperative assessments and postoperative evaluations (eg, medication reconciliation), and handling hazardous medications and pharmaceutical waste. Strategies for successful implementation of the recommended practices include promoting a basic understanding of the nurse's role in the medication use process and developing a medication management plan as well as policies and procedures that support medication safety and activities to measure compliance with safe practices.
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Hicks et al. (2012) conducted a review in Medication errors in the perioperative setting. AORN Recommended practices for medication safety was evaluated. Implementing AORN recommended practices for medication safety provides guidance to perioperative nurses to reduce medication errors through risk recognition, collaboration, and policy development.
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