SAFE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION

Act on Safe medication administration



Act on Safe medication administration

Introduction

My name is Stella Smith, and I am 24 years old student nurse. I am studying in a nursing school since 4 years. In these 4 years, I have worked on different nursing models and nursing treatment aspects.

In this paper, I am talking about the legislations of Act on Safe medication administration. According to the Institute of Medicine's (ION) first quality Chasm report, the medication errors are the main cause of mortality. Medical errors also result in deaths; therefore, there is a great need to follow the safe medication administration.

Brief Outline of Legislation

According to Article 22, “ When the nurse considers that as a result of a prescription may even cause harm, or risk subjecting the subject of unjustified treatments care contact who issued the prescription, to discuss the doubts and the basis for their concern. If the treating professional position remains unchanged, the nurse will act according to their discretion, either in accordance with the professional or making use of conscientious objection, always leaving a written record of their performance ".

Policy Issue/Legislation Background

The delegation of medication administration in Colombia, is legal and is based on Decree 3616 of 10 October 2005 "By means of which contains descriptions of the assistants in the area of ??health, adopting its occupational profiles and training, the basic requirements of quality programs and other provisions, Article 4, which makes the description of occupational profiles for nursing assistants, who Competition No. 7 states: "Administer medications as delegation and in accordance with established techniques in relation to ethical principles and legal regulations." The Court asked whether the fact that there is legal regulation ethically justify this activity that poses risks to the patient is delegated to nursing assistants and analyzes that the article mentioned conditions the delegation of medication administration as established in the early ethical and legal requirements and within those contemplated in Law 911 of 2004, which states in Article 8.

"The nurse, based on the analysis of the circumstances of time, manner and place, may delegate nursing activities to the nursing assistant when, according to his opinion, endangers the physical or mental the person or group of people who care and provided to exercise oversight of delegated activities.

The nurse has the right and responsibility to define and implement criteria for selecting, supervising and evaluating professional and support staff of the nursing staff, to ensure that it meets the requirements and complexity of nursing care. " In this sense, nurses need to analyze in depth what ethical and legal implications would the delegation of responsibility for administering medication in the support staff, which brings risks for the personal care and what strategies they would implement to prevent them.

Implications for nursing practice and/or for the delivery of quality health care

The scope of the rules is significant because in addition to matters specified in, previous lines until now, the law 266 of 1996 in Article 3 through which defines the purpose ...