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Learning Objectives
Define medication error.
List the potential and professional costs of making a medication error.
Correlate workarounds with medication errors.
Delineate the "Six Rights of Nursing Medication Administration."
Identify what the National Academy of Medicine sees as the ultimate reason why medical errors occur.
List ways to prevent errors with the pediatric COVID-19 vaccine.
Specify a way to prevent inappropriate polypharmacy.
Identify problems identified by The Joint Commission that make medication reconciliation a challenge.
Specify one reason for concern when IV pumps are placed outside of isolation rooms.
List ways in which chronic stress can affect the nurse's ability to function.