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Härkänen, M., Voutilainen, A., Turunen, E., & Vehviläinen-Julkunen, K. (2016). Systematic review and meta-analysis of educational interventions designed to improve medication administration skills and safety of registered nurses. Nurse Education Today, 41, 36–43. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2016.03.017 This journal suggests evaluating the nature, quality and effectiveness of education intervention in order to promote enhanced the medication administration skills and safety in hospitals for registered nurses. There are using methods such as narrative analysis of the nature of the interventions, the effective public health practice project quality assessment tool to the quality of studies, calculating effect sizes and a meta-analysis is used for the effectiveness …show more content…

The writers introduced types of errors such as wrong patient and wrong dose errors. Also they reveal the data is useful not only implementations of educational strategies, but also tracking of performance. Moss, J., & Berner, E. S. (2015). Evaluating clinical decision support tools for medication administration safety in a simulated environment. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 84(5), 308–318. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2015.01.018 Running Head: Annotated bibliography 3 The specific aims of this journal are cultivate strategies to a methodology and tools, which is for clinical decision support systems in order to reduce the occurrence of medication administration errors. Moreover, the writers revealed there is seemed undervalue their necessity for support to the medication administration decision support tools by nurses’ evaluation as well as their actual performance. Navas, H., Graffi Moltrasio, L., Ares, F., Strumia, G., Dourado, E., & Alvarez, M. (2015). Using mobile devices to improve the safety of medication administration processes. Studies In Health Technology And Informatics, …show more content…

Safety strategies were identified and prioritized. Smeulers, M., Onderwater, A. T., Zwieten, M. B., & Vermeulen, H. (2014). Nurses' experiences and perspectives on medication safety practices: an explorative qualitative study. Journal of Nursing Management, 22(3), 276-285. doi:10.1111/jonm.12225 This article define medication errors and when occur these medication administration errors (MAEs) such as one or more of the seven rights of medication administration (right patient, right drug, right dose, right time, right route, right reason and right documentation) are violated. Moreover, the writers suggest study more about nurses’ knowledges with and perceptions on preventing MAEs through this journal. Wulff, K., Cummings, G. G., Marck, P., & Yurtseven, O. (2011). Medication administration technologies and patient safety: a mixed-method systematic review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 67(10), 2080-2095.

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