Adapting a Distraction and Interruption Simulation for Safe Medication Preparation: An International Collaboration

Medication errors have two victims: patients directly harmed by the error, and nurses having harmed patients by making an error. For nursing students and new nurses, inexperience and distractions are chief factors leading to medication errors (Thomas,  McIntosh,& Allen, 2014; Wolf,  Hicks,& Serembus, 2006). Interruptions may include self-distraction, loss of focus, events occurring in close proximity, patients, other health care providers, phone calls, and texts (Hayes,  Power, Davidson, Daly,& Jackson, 2015).
Source: Clinical Simulation in Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Innovations in Simulation Source Type: research