Segurança do paciente na administração de medicamentos

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.9062217088

• Palavras-chave: Segurança do paciente. Prescrições de medicamentos. Enfermagem.

• Keywords: Patient safety. Prescriptions of medicines. Nursing.

• Abstract:

  INTRODUCTION: Patient safety is a worldwide concern and can be defined as preventing or avoiding adverse events or injuries during hospitalization. Among the most common adverse events related to health care is the medication error, which is defined as any preventable event that can cause or induce the inappropriate use of medicines or harm the patient while the medicine is under the control of the health professional. OBJECTIVE: To describe the strategies used by nursing to avoid adverse events related to medication administration and the specific objectives: To know the implications of medication administration errors and To identify the risk factors for adverse events in the medication administration process. METHODOLOGY: An exploratory study, with a qualitative approach, carried out through an integrative literature review. In the Virtual Health Library (VHL) databases: Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), Nursing Database (BDENF), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO), using the Descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS): Patient Safety; Prescriptions of medicines; Emergencies and Nursing, during the month of September 2018. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: After refinement were analyzed11 publications made by nurses in the last five years. These articles punctuated the motives that favor adverse events and how to avoid them. Among the main causes are: medication error, patient change, dosage error and time. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: This study allowed the identification of numerous articles on the subject. However, the number of errors within nursing care related to medication administration is still large.

• Número de páginas: 15