Scenario 1:
As a nurse practitioner, you prescribe medications for your patients. You make an error when prescribing medication to a 5-year-old patient. Rather than dosing him appropriately, you prescribe a dose suitable for an adult.
Give examples. For example, say it was corticosteroids. Talk about the drugs effects on child (kinetics & dynamics briefly), use highest level pharmacological information, since you chose adult dose. Talk about ethical moral & legal aspects of this error & how you will rectify the issue. Give information as short paragraphs, not big blobs. Use peer reviewed scholarly references, provider based, not patient based.
1. Review the scenario assigned by your Instructor for this Assignment.
Search specific laws and standards for prescribing prescriiption drugs and for addressing medication errors for your state or region(Maryland) and reflect on these as you review the scenario assigned by your Instructor.
2. Consider the ethical and legal implications of the scenario for all stakeholders involved, such as the prescriber, pharmacist, patient, and patient’s family.
3. Think about two strategies that you, as an advanced practice nurse, would use to guide your ethically and legally responsible decision-making in this scenario, including whether you would disclose any medication errors.
Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:
Explain the ethical and legal implications of the scenario you selected on all stakeholders involved, such as the prescriber, pharmacist, patient, and patient’s family.
Describe strategies to address disclosure and nondisclosure as identified in the scenario you selected. Be sure to reference laws specific to your state (Maryland).
Explain two strategies that you, as an advanced practice nurse, would use to guide your decision making in this scenario, including whether you would disclose your error. Be sure to justify your explanation.
Explain the process of writing prescriiptions, including strategies to minimize medication errors.
Use peer reviewed scholarly reference articles, provider/clinician based, not patient based, from peer reviewed, current US based journals. Use of non-scholarly references, especially patient based, is not acceptable at post-graduate, clinician level education.
