As a nurse practitioner, you prescribe medications for your patients. You make an error when prescribing medication to a 5-year-old patient. Rather than dosing him appropriately, you prescribe a dose suitable for an adult.

 

 

• Explain the ethical and legal implications of the scenario you selected on all stakeholders involved such as the prescriber, pharmacist, patient, and the patient's family.

 

 

• Describe strategies to address disclosure and nondisclosure as identified in the scenario selected. Be sure to reference laws specific to CALIFORNIA.

 

 

• Explain two strategies that you, as an advanced practice nurse would use to guide your decision making in this scenario, including whether you would disclose your error. Be sure to justify your explanation.

 

 

 

• Explain the process of writing prescriptions including strategies to minimize medication errors.

 

The ethical and legal implication of medication error:

Medical errors require systematic management strategies for the prevention of medication errors.

The education of healthcare providers, nurse practitioners, and physicians is necessary for reporting medication errors.

The prioritized error reports first for a better working business.

The ethical implication involves the following points:

• Beneficence:

The healthcare provider must attempt the good for all patients in all situations.

• Autonomy:

It means the patient has all rights to decide their health matters related to the healthcare provider.

• Justice:

The healthcare provider should be consistent with medication prescriptions. The nurse practitioners should be able to explain and justify their actions.

• Non-maleficence:

The basic medical ethics also includes that "first no harm" to the patients.

Disclosure and non-disclosure specific to California:

• California association for nurse practitioners published the latest edition for healthcare practitioners.
• These perspectives help to widely view the disclosure and non-disclosure for the measurement of critical risk management.
• This program is organized to facilitate the movement in culture with accountability, transparency, and prevention of medical error.
• For the improvement in safety and quality, understanding mistakes and patient suffering id used.
• Communication with patients openly encourages effective medical error disclosure and non-disclosure.
• California law specifically involves the performance and qualification of the job.

Step-by-step explanation

Decision making:

• Effective decision making helps in decreasing medical errors in nursing.
• This will initialize the actions related to medical errors in the prescription of medicines.
• Double-check procedure applied in giving medical prescriptions.
• Everything about the patient history and current situation must be recorded in the documents and electronic medical records.
• For the efficiency of the medicine ensure the proper understanding of the storage of medicines.
• Medicine guide also provided with the prescription for a better understanding of medicine.

Process of writing prescriptions:

1. During writing prescriptions, the healthcare provider must consider the following elements:
2. The prescription must use language which is read easily read and understands by the patients.
3. Medical errors in medicine prescriptions have neat and clean writing.
4. Medical prescription also mentioned the quantity and frequency of drugs.
5. It also includes the number of days like projected days which are specified for taking medicines.