Nurse License Protection Case Study: Falsifying the record of a medication error
Medication safety has become a highly prominent issue, as national patient safety initiatives focus on the necessity to improve medication management and error reporting processes. However, dispensing and administration lapses continue to occur. This license protection case study involves a traveling registered nurse (RN) working on an inpatient oncology unit.
The workforce after the COVID-19 pandemic is much different from the prepandemic world. During the pandemic, many nurses left their current employers or exited nursing entirely. Shortages are persistent, and because of turnover, many in the current workforce are less familiar with the organizations they work for and less experienced in nursing.
Nursing professionals have a wide range of valuable resources to help them in their jobs, such as organizational policies and procedures and databases of clinical practice guidelines. Many nursing professionals use these on a regular basis to help them deliver quality care. But they tend to overlook one essential practice resource — the nurse practice act (NPA).
