Literature Review
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Literature Review
The purpose of this assignment is to conduct a literature review on Drug error. For the purpose of this work I will use articles of Stubbs et al. (2006), Maidment et al. (2007), Dean et al. (2002), Bohomol et al. (2009) and McMullan et al (2009) to look at causes and issues relating to drug errors. Furthermore, the content of this review will include details of the literatures, how the articles were located, the keywords used to locate them, strength and weakness of the five selected articles. This topic has been chosen because it relates to nursing profession and it is important to be aware that medication takes important role in patient’s treatment and in order way it could cause a severe harm or death if not used appropriately. Nonetheless, Bohomol et al. (2009) defined drug error as any error in the process of prescribing, dispensing, or administering a drug, whether an adverse consequence occurred or not.
Firstly, thorough literature search must be done in order to have a vast amount of relevant articles to choose the five articles from. A literature search is a systematic search of variety of published academic research articles in order to select items which are applicable to your area of interest. In other words, it is an organized and structured search for all literatures published on a topic (Greenes, 2007), and it is very resourceful and helpful in gathering facts which could be found on internet, journals, books and government documents. You can carry out literature search through computer aided with internet facility to access CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing Allied Health Literature), BNI (British Nursing Institute), MEDLINE (Medical Literature Online) and all other databases.
In order to acquire more articles to choose articles needed for this work from; I utilized Middlesex University Athens login to access the above mentioned databases and thought of different ways in which the title of this assignment could be...
The purpose of this assignment is to conduct a literature review on Drug error. For the purpose of this work I will use articles of Stubbs et al. (2006), Maidment et al. (2007), Dean et al. (2002), Bohomol et al. (2009) and McMullan et al (2009) to look at causes and issues relating to drug errors. Furthermore, the content of this review will include details of the literatures, how the articles were located, the keywords used to locate them, strength and weakness of the five selected articles. This topic has been chosen because it relates to nursing profession and it is important to be aware that medication takes important role in patient’s treatment and in order way it could cause a severe harm or death if not used appropriately. Nonetheless, Bohomol et al. (2009) defined drug error as any error in the process of prescribing, dispensing, or administering a drug, whether an adverse consequence occurred or not.
Firstly, thorough literature search must be done in order to have a vast amount of relevant articles to choose the five articles from. A literature search is a systematic search of variety of published academic research articles in order to select items which are applicable to your area of interest. In other words, it is an organized and structured search for all literatures published on a topic (Greenes, 2007), and it is very resourceful and helpful in gathering facts which could be found on internet, journals, books and government documents. You can carry out literature search through computer aided with internet facility to access CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing Allied Health Literature), BNI (British Nursing Institute), MEDLINE (Medical Literature Online) and all other databases.
In order to acquire more articles to choose articles needed for this work from; I utilized Middlesex University Athens login to access the above mentioned databases and thought of different ways in which the title of this assignment could be...