The Nursing Instructor Teaches the Student Nurses About How Medication

question 14

Multiple Choice

The nursing instructor teaches the student nurses about how medication errors can occur.What information will the nursing instructor include in the presentation? Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.

• A)The nurse miscalculates the medication dose.
• B)The nurse does not check the patient's identification band.
• C)The nurse does not validate an order with the physician.
• D)The nurse misinterprets a physician's order.
• E)The nurse administers the incorrect drug.

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Definitions:

Encoding Failure

A situation in which information does not get stored in long-term memory because of inadequate or insufficient encoding processes.

Storage Failure

A failure in the ability to retain information over time, typically referring to long-term memory loss.

State-dependent Memory

The phenomenon that information learned in a specific mental or emotional state is more easily recalled when in that same state.

Memory Construction

The process by which the brain pieces together bits of information to create or reconstruct memories.