Healthcare Traveler - May 2008 - (Page 40) Drug Update Error watch T H E L AT E S T D E V E LO P M E N T S I N R E S E A R C H Certain vaccines are surprisingly underused the ISMP article, although nurses expressed concern over medication error, only 37% labeled the injections they prepared. Survey respondents indicated that applying labels could interfere with their use of the syringe. Among the practices offered in the article to circumvent this reluctance, and cut error rates, were use of pharmacy-prelabeled or prefilled syringes, instituting standards of label placement, and discarding all unlabeled syringes. Errors with injectable medications: Unlabeled syringes are surprisingly common! (2008). Nurse Advise-ERR, 6(1), 1. Injectable-drug errors and syringe labels E rror rates with injectable medications surpass those for other methods of administration, accounting for about two-thirds of administration mistakes, according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). The need to perform unusual steps to prepare the injectable, such as changing the drug concentration, having to enact several steps to prepare the medicine, or readying the drug outside of the pharmacy, increases the risk of error. Lack of labeling also has been cited as a major risk factor. In an American Nurses Association survey cited in E ach fall and winter, millions of Americans respond to healthservice exhortations to get inoculated against that year’s influenza strains. Other vaccines, however, have seen considerably lower rates of public acceptance, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; among them, the human papilloma virus (HPV), shingles, and whooping cough vaccines. Although the FDA-approved HPV vaccine protects against the four viruses that cause 70% of cervical cancers and 90% of genital warts, only 10% of 18- to 26-year-old women have gotten it. Only 1.9% of patients have received shingles Circle Career Card No. 628 40 Healthcare Traveler May 2008 www.healthcaretraveler.com http://www.nipinc.com http://www.nipinc.com http://www.healthcaretraveler.com
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