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Medication Errors Reduction. Reduction of Medicatioon Errors

This week, you will submit summaries of quantitative and qualitative studies. The purpose of this
assignment is to become familiar with published research, research designs, and methodologies.
For the assignment, you will select one quantitative research study and one qualitative study
related to the field of nursing and write a summary of each study. Each summary must be
accurate, succinct, and clear. These articles should be somewhat related to your PICOT
questions which is the following. please pick one but if it is too hard pick something close to
medication errors reduction
1) For nurse administering medication, (P) will implementing a “ Quiet zone” (I) as compared to
no intervention (C) reduce interruptions and distractions, decrease medication errors and
improve medication safety (O) during the 9am medication pass time (T)?.
2)For nurses who works in emergency department administering high-risk medications such as

insulin or heparin (P), will practicing double-checking (I) , as compared to giving those
medications without double-checking (C), reduced medication errors (O) while patients are in the
E.D (T)?”.
3)In patient over 65 years old (P), will practicing medication conciliation by asking the patient to
bring a bag of all their medication including herbal and over the counter drugs (I), as compared to
usual care by just asking questions ( C ) reduce medications errors (O) while patient are
hospitalized (T)?
Ensure the following questions are addressed in each summary:
1. What type of research is it (quantitative, qualitative, and design)?
2. What was the research question(s) or hypothesis?
3. What is the sample, the sample size, and sample attributes?
4. What was the setting of the study?
5. What were the researcher’s findings? (Identify one.)
You must submit the research study articles along with your summaries.
Each summary should be between 150–250 words.
Use current APA format to style your paper and to cite your sources.
For the Quantitative and Qualitative Abstract Assignment (due week 4) you should:

Select a topic in nursing or medicine
Select one original research article that is quantitative and one which is qualitative. NOTE: The
articles should not be a mixed-method, review article, a meta-analysis, a Meta-synthesis or a
systematic review.
Summarize the articles
Both abstracts should be combined into one single Word document.
For a manuscript to be considered an original research article, the following conditions need to
be met:
It should be written by the researchers who actually conducted the study.
It should include the hypothesis or research question, the purpose of the study, and the details of
the research methods.
The research findings should be reported.
These findings should be interpreted and possible implications discussed.
Your paper should include:
A title page
Body
Reference page listing your sources

Formal Medical Case Report

General Instructions:

IMPORTANT: READ THE COMMON PROBLEMS AND THE SAMPLE PAGES AS WELL, IT IS CRITICAL FOR THE GRADE.

Health professionals often find themselves writing case reports, in various forms, that rely on careful observation of a patient’s struggle with an illness or other disorder. The case report is a kind of story, one that differs from more literary stories in that the tale it tells appeals not to our emotions, but to our scientific curiosity. It is intended to help those who read it to make diagnoses. It tells the reader what symptoms to look for, and how a disease usually presents itself (which is particularly useful when the disease is new or rare). The clinician does not know, on first seeing a patient, what point the illness has reached in its natural course. The case report helps in this situation by giving a thorough description of the whole course of an illness, and does so by relating an actual instance of the condition as suffered by a real person.

Because you are not yet in the field, you may think that you have no patients about whom to write a case report. You do, however, know a great deal about a variety of diseases and temporary or permanent disabilities, even if they are only the common ones, like a childhood illness, or one of the diseases that frequently appear among the elderly. Any of these topics can—if not too simple—provide the basis for the case report I am asking you to write. So, too, might your knowledge of a more unusual physiological or psychological problem.

For this assignment, write a formal case report, using as a model the case report that I gave you, and using as your subject an actual person. Your next assignment, after this one, will also be a case report, but more “creative” (and will further require that you find a new person to write about). For now, we will be more detached. Your audience is different from the last essay; this time, you should think of the audience as people with a medical education, and you should imagine that you are an expert on the condition you are describing. You will therefore not need much explanation of technical matters, but will probably have some, carefully adjusted for the audience. You should include both the specific course of the condition as suffered by your patient, and a discussion of the condition in general. Support your discussion with at least one source written for a professional audience (you can of course include more than one). You will likely include most of the following:

The patient’s age, gender, ethnicity, economic background, and other such basics.

Careful descriptions of the patient’s health condition. These descriptions must be based on your own observation of the patient, or your discussion with people who know—or knew—the patient. You can write about someone who is deceased; you can also write about an infant, or a person with an illness so advanced that he or she can no longer communicate. In these cases, you will rely on conversations with friends or family of the patient.

Your description of the patient’s health condition should also be highly detailed. You will likely discuss the onset of the problem and its course, as thoroughly and specifically as possible. Remember that one purpose of a case report is to tell those who read it how the disease presents itself through its whole progression. Consider possible triggers to the condition, the severity of episodes, the usual duration, the extent to which physiological and emotional responses change throughout the course of the problem, responses to treatment or palliatives, and much else.

          Do not use yourself as the subject. This is your chance to do real medicine, and take an actual case history. You will miss that chance if other people are excluded.

                  Do not use a real name. Refer to the subject as “the patient.”

                  You must get your subject’s permission to write about him or her. Attach to the paper a signed consent form from the subject, or the equivalent. There is no official form, so just make up a simple one of your ow