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Jill Scott-Cawiezell,Ginette A Pepper,Richard W Madsen,Greg Petroski,Amy Vogelsmeier,Dave Zellmer,

Providing safe nursing home care is both a clinical and fiscal challenge in many countries. The fiscal realities result in the addition of other workers, such as medication technicians or aides (CMT/A), to the health care team. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of various levels of credentialing among nursing home staff who deliver medications (RN, LPN, or CMT/A) on medication error. In addition, the impact of distractions and interruptions was explored. Using naïve observation, 39 medication administrators representing various levels of credentialing were unobtrusively observed to determine the number of medication errors, distractions, and interruptions in five nursing homes. There were no differences in medication error rates by level of credential. However, RNs had more interruptions during their medication administration, and these increased interruptions were associated with increased medication error rates when wrong time errors were excluded (p = .0348).

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J Scott-Cawiezell,GA Pepper,RW Madsen,G Petroski,A Vogelsmeier,D Zellmer,

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PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, U.S. Gov't,

Journal: Clinical nursing research

VOLUME: 16

Page Numbers: 72-8

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ISSN: 1054-7738

DAY: 3

MONTH: Feb

YEAR: 2007

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LANGUAGE: eng

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KEYWORDS: Nursing Homes

MESH TERMS: manpower

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AFFILIATION: University of Missouri-Columbia, MO 65211, USA. scottji@missouri.edu

Country: United States

AGENCY: United States AHRQ

GRANT: 5 UC1 HS14281-02

ACRONYM: HS

MEDLINETA: Clin Nurs Res

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