Discussion:Nurse Fatigue and Adverse Medication

Reaseach Topic: Nurse fatigue and adverse patient medication events.
Problem Statement: Nurse fatigue can lead to decreased concentration, drowsiness, patient mix-ups, or administration of wrong medications to patients (SOURCE). In the state of Texas, there were 38% of nurse respondents who reported to committing fatigue related errors while at work (Kelton, Kingsley, Davis, & Miller, 2014).
Purpose Statement: The purpose of this study is to correlate sleep-hours and work-hours with the number of medication errors that are made by nurses.
Dr. Monroe
Source: Kelton, D., Kingsley, E., Davis, C. & Miller, D. (2014). Running on empty? The facts about nursing fatigue. Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, 12(2), 45-49.
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Reaseach Topic: Nurse fatigue and adverse patient medication events. Problem Statement: Nurse fatigue can lead to decreased concentration, drowsiness, patient mix-ups, or administration of wrong medications to patients (SOURCE). In the state of Texas, there were 38% of nurse respondents who reported to committing fatigue related errors while at work (Kelton, Kingsley, Davis, & Miller, 2014). Purpose Statement: The purpose of this study is to correlate sleep-hours and work-hours with the number of medication errors that are made by nurses. Dr. Monroe Source: Kelton, D., Kingsley, E., Davis, C. & Miller, D. (2014). Running on empty? The facts about nursing fatigue. Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, 12(2), 45-49. Topic: Nurse fatigue and adverse medication events PICO question: Nurse fatigue can lead to decreased concentration, drowsiness, patient mix-ups or administration of wrong medication to patients (Source), In the state of Texas, there were 38% of nurse respondents who reported to committing fatigue related errors while at work (kelton, Kingsley, Davis & Miller,2014) Hypothesis: As from the details given in the question and as found from the observations in the literature the hypothesis can be as follows, there is distinct and evidentially correlation present between the number of sleep hours, work hours and the number of the medication errors that are made by nurses in general(Griffiths et al.,2014). Theoretical framework: PICO frame work essentially does contain the following aspects (Ekins, 2010), Problem: As there are more number of work hours, nurses are committing more work related errors due the problems of fatigue. There is evidence that more than 38% of the work related errors committed by nurses are directly related to the fatigue of the nurses due to excess work hours (Martin,2015). Intervention: The cause of increase in the work related errors is the presence of more number of work hours than the sleep hours, the immediate solution or control…

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