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Why do medication errors keep happening?
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Verbal orders are accepted over the phone without read-back
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Belum ada yang berbicara.
Pharmacy reviews charts a day after the first dose was given
The ward manager spends most of the shift covering gaps in the rota
Handwritten charts are still used when the system is down, which is often
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Errors are discussed as individual mistakes, not as patterns
To be precise: this is about the system, not any nurse or doctor.
The same error recurs on the same drug every few months
Meaning the recurring pattern, not the one incident under review.
The electronic chart times out and loses the entry
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Nurses are measured on completing the round on time
Staffing is set by bed count, not by how sick the patients are
Infusion pumps on the ward come from three manufacturers
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Agency staff do not know the ward's conventions
Patients are moved between wards mid-treatment and the chart lags behind
New nurses are put on drug rounds in their first week
The drug trolley is shared between two bays
Discharge medication lists disagree with the inpatient chart
Nobody looks at the error reports together
Night shift has one nurse for the whole bay
Prescriptions are written in the corridor between other tasks
The same look-alike drugs are stored next to each other
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Allergy information is in a different system from the prescribing one
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Double-checking is signed without a second person actually looking
Meaning the recurring pattern, not the one incident under review.
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Training on the prescribing system was a one-hour session two years ago
To be precise: this is about the system, not any nurse or doctor.
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Near misses are not reported because the form takes twenty minutes
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Interruptions during the drug round are constant
Alerts in the system are so frequent that they are clicked through
Scope: this ward on this site, not the trust as a whole.
Weight-based doses are calculated by hand at the bedside
Reporting an error has led to disciplinary action in the past
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Doctors change doses verbally on the round and the chart is updated later
Meaning the recurring pattern, not the one incident under review.