Nurse's Role

• Durham, B., CNE The nurse's role in medication safety, Nursing: April 2015 - Volume 45 - Issue 4 - p 1-4. The nurse's role in medication safety : Nursing2022 (lww.com)

From Nursing 2022, a source for clinical and professional information regarding health care professionals, discusses how medication administration is one of the main duties of nurses. It is the nurse's responsibility to know the risks associated with medication error and ways to reduce their occurrence. This article is useful in the organization to ensure nurses are aware of their responsibility with medication safety. The literature is important information to give nurses the confidence and tools needed to provide high standard patient care.

• Rohde, E. & Domm, E. (September 2017). Nurses’ clinical reasoning practices that support safe medication administration: An integrative review of the literature. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(3-4), e402-e411. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14077

This article for the Journal of Clinical Nursing discusses safe medication administration and the nursing skills and knowledge required for decision making to manage safe administration. One nursing role is to possess the critical thinking skills to be aware of potential errors, communicate with staff and patients, as well as work collaboratively within the team. This represents goals set in the organization to attain high medication safety standards.

• Mandrack, M., Cohen, M., Featherling, J., Gellner, L., Judd, K., Kienle, P., & Vanderveen, T. (May/June 2012). Nursing best practices using automated dispensing cabinets: nurses' key role in improving medication safety. MedSurg Nursing, 21(3), 134-144. Nursing Best Practices Using Automated Dispensing Cabinets: Nurses' Key Rol...: EBSCOhost (capella.edu)

In this article from MedSurg Nursing, the nurse's role is discussed as being key in providing safe medication administration related to ADC use. This is mainly due to the nurse performing the majority of the interactions involving the ADC. The article continues to review unsafe practices like overriding system safeguards which has been problematic in the organization. This resource discusses benefits of ADC use when used as the manufacturer's intention.

• Metsamuuronen, R., Kokki, H., Naaranlahti, T., Kurttila, M., & Heikkila, R. (2020). Nurses’ perceptions of automated dispensing cabinets – an observational study and an online survey. BMC Nursing. 19(27). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00420-2

This article from BMC Nursing, reviews the nurse's perceptions of ADC use which is important to overall success of implementing a new policy and procedure in the organization. When nurses are equipped with the knowledge and skills to use new technology like an ADC, they gain confidence in providing high quality care. This knowledge will facilitate nurses in the organization to work efficiently and decrease the opportunity for error.