High Alert Medications

Reda Samy

ISBN 10: 3659577715 / ISBN 13: 9783659577710

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2014, 2014

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 112 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: High Alert Medications
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659577715
• ISBN 13: 9783659577710
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 8D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 8 millimeters depth
• Weight: 185 grams

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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.

About the Author

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.