Medical Errors and Decision-Making

Medical Errors and Decision-Making Student’s Name Professor’s Name Institutional Affiliations Course Name and Number Due Date Medical Errors and Decision-Making Medical errors can occur in diverse forms, including hospital-related infections, medication, or surgical issues. A recent inspection in Philadelphia uncovered a medical error incidence involving the administration of excess doses to a patient in Lankenau Medical Center (Srakocic & Sherman, 2023). The issue arose from negligence in following protocols that caused a nurse to administer 1.5 more milligrams of hydromorphone, which Gantz (2023) reports doubled the recommended dose. This mistake required healthcare providers to use naloxone to reverse the overdose, leaving the patient with adverse health ramifications while recovering in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Thus, the outcomes of the medical error triggered life-changing ramifications, leading to safety warnings against the healthcare facility. Adhering to routine clinical guidelines such as barcode medication administration (BCMA) presents one of the ways that healthcare providers could have made the correct decision in the case. According to Mulac et al. (2021), BCMA has demonstrated its capacity to eliminate such errors in healthcare practice. The approach a...