[Solved]: Nurses utilize computerized medication…

Nurses utilize computerized medication administration records (MAR), computerized provider order entry (CPOE), barcoding, and automated dispensing cabinets. Define each of these technologies (i.e. what do they do, or what is the purpose of them). Then note how the technology helps improve safety, and how human errors could make the technology unsafe. For example, if the wrong drug were stocked in the dispensing cabinet by the pharmacy technician, this would be a human error and would undermine the safety of using the technology. Medication Administration Record (eMAR)  Definition:  How it helps:  Human factors that could undermine safety of technology: Computerized Provider Order Entry  Definition:  How it helps:  Human factors that could undermine safety of technology: Barcoding  Definition:  How it helps:  Human factors that could undermine safety of technology: Automated Dispensing Cabinets  Definition:  How it helps:  Human factors that could undermine safety of technology: 2. The nurse is about to administer eye medication to the patient. There are two medications that have your patient’s name on them. One medication says “otic”; the other says “ophthalmic”. Which medication would you give? 3. What are the four different parenteral routes? What type of tissue does the medication get delivered into (i.e. vein, dermis, adipose tissue, muscle, etc.)? 4. When using an inhaler, does a patient get more medication into their lungs with or without a spacer? (Hint – see the document entitled “Why Spacers Rock” under the “Readings” section on this week’s module.) 5. What is meant by a “culture of safety” ? Name three ways a “culture of safety” can be implemented on a unit to prevent medication errors?