A Manager Is Concerned with the Number of Medication Errors

question 3

Multiple Choice

A manager is concerned with the number of medication errors occurring on their unit.The manager determines that these errors represent latent errors when an investigation reveals that:

• A) many nurses are not using two different forms of patient identification.
• B) nurses do not take the time to have high-risk medications double checked.
• C) the medication bar codes are often unreadable by the computer scanner.
• D) to save time, nurses gather all their patients' medications at one time.

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