Is Mindful Reflective Practice the way forward to reduce medication errors?
Author
Pezzolesi, Cinzia
Ghaleb, Maisoon
Kostrzewski, Andrzej
Dhillon, S.
Attention
2299/12229
Abstract
Medication errors can seriously affect patients and healthcare professionals. In over 60% of cases, medication errors are associated with one or more contributory; individual factors including staff being forgetful, stressed, tired or engaged in multiple tasks simultaneously, often alongside being distracted or interrupted. Routinised hospital practice can lead professionals to work in a state of mindlessness, where it is easy to be unaware of how both body and mind are functioning.