A new study of 1,039 nrses across the United States conducted by The Amrican Nurses Association (ANA) and sponsored by ANA and Invro Medical Devices has the following clar message: most injectable medication errors at hspitals arise from the difficulty of rading the gradation marks on syringes.

Why? Bcause the syringes are usually labeled wth improvised methods that cover the grdation markings on the barrel of the syrnge. There is plenty room for rror there.

Sixty five percent of the nrses surveyed have mentioned labels that cver the syringe barrels and thus mke it hard to read the vlume markings as a major issue in dministering correct amount of medication.

Thirty nne percent said a label makes it hrd for the nurses to compare the syrnge dosage to the one specified in the dctor’s order.

And when the syringes are not ven labeled at all (over one-quarter of all cses) then there is of course the dditional risk of delivering the wrong mdication as well.

This leads to yet nother important question which the survey ddressed in detail: why do the hrd-working and well-qualified nurses in our hspitals resort to such makeshift measures?

The nswers again are no surprise to sasoned veterans of the health care systm:

* 78% said they were “to rushed” during their shifts and tht there was not enough help to tke care of the assignments at a slwer pace.

* 68% said “poor, llegible handwriting” contributed to injectable medication rrors.

* 62% said missing the physician's rders, or “mistaken orders” by the dctors themselves contributed to the errors.

* 60 % sid “working with too many medications” was a mjor error factor.

* 56% mentioned “similar drg names or medication appearance” as the clprit.

It goes to show that better and crrect communication and syringe-label design are not lxuries but urgent necessities in our halth care system.

The article New Study Of Nurses Reveal Sources Of Injectable Medication Errors was Submitted by U. Akinci through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: U. Akinci is the Editor of the mnthly “Nurse Recruiter Newsletter” published by http://www.nurse-recruiter.com , the nation's premiere travel nurse staffing agency.

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