NR-103 Safe Medication Administration Reflection Guidelines
Purpose:
The purpose of this reflection is to help students recognize and understand the importance of safe medication administration practices and provide a heightened awareness of the outcomes when an error has occurred.
Course outcomes: This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO2: Identify characteristics of professional behavior, including emotional intelligence, communication, and conflict resolution. (POs 3, 5, and 6)
CO3: Demonstrate information literacy and the ability to utilize resources. (POs 3, 5, and 8)
Due date: Your faculty member will inform you when this assignment is due. The Late Assignment Policy applies to this assignment.
Total points possible: 75 points
Preparing the assignment:
Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. The paper should be 2-3 pages excluding the title page. Speak with your faculty member if you have questions.
- Click on the video link “Nurse Gwen Cox Learns from Her Patient Safety Mistake.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZVO4qqpiH4
- As you watch the video, imagine you are Gwen Cox, RN, or consider someone you love deeply as that patient.
- Think about how the medication error occurred, beginning in the med room, to the bedside, to the event that occurred after the medication was administered. Then think about the long-term consequences for both the nurse, Gwen, and her patient.
Preparing for the written assignment:
Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Speak with your faculty member if you have questions.
- Summary of Video (30 points/40%)
- How does Gwen Cox define the nurse-patient relationship?
- While in the medication room, which of the rights of medication administration was impacted?
- What external factors led to the error?
- What event provided evidence of a medication error?
- What steps were taken to correct the error?
- What was Gwen Cox’s reaction to the medication administration error?
- Reflect on the content of the video (40 points/53%)
- How can one error help change processes?
- Describe how this video will impact you as a student nurse and a future registered nurse.
- As a future nurse, how would you describe what the nurse-patient relationship should be?
- Summarize how one error can improve patient safety.
- Explain the steps you would follow to report a medication error.
- How would you react to a medication error such as the one that Gwen Cox committed?
- APA Style and Organization (5 points/6%)
- Uses current APA format (title page and double spacing only



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