Individuals must perceive themselves and their actions as part of the overall process and must realize that systems will help them provide safer patient care. Just as an organization must develop systems and processes to reduce risk for errors, so must individual caregivers. Individual actions, behaviors, and work processes should be evaluated for potential deficiencies and redesigned. Selected recommendations for individual processes and behaviors of prescribes, pharmacists, and nurses, respectively.
The incorporation of the patient/family into the medication-use process should be aimed at achieving a set of behaviors in patients that will reduce risk for medication errors; The length and detail of these selected recommendations reflect the expanded complexity and opportunity for error as care becomes closer to the “point of care,” and errors are more dependent on individual performance.
The CapsulCard™ helps make medicine simple by facilitating a quick review of your medication list for inappropriate medications, drug interactions, and/or dosing errors. Such information can be used to alter individual behaviors and actions. Making a commitment to recognize individual fallibility, alter error-prone activities, and consistently work to reduce potential for errors is clearly the responsibility of all care providers.
