Title of Written Assignment: Discuss the role of medication as being either “lifesaving” or “life changing-death” with regards to reducing errors during the pharmacotherapy process within the pre-hospital setting.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

– Identify methods to reduce errors in the management and administration of medication

– Understand all the drugs administered by the emergency care practitioner at the relevant scope of practice

– Explain the principles of drug dose calculations and its administration.

BACKGROUND:

“Across healthcare, organizations are increasingly focused on improving patient safety. Yet in the prehospital setting, there is a paucity of information about the safety of care, in spite of the well-known and documented idiosyncrasies. One component of prehospital care that is particularly understudied, yet highly influential to patient safety is medication administration.”

Misasi, P. & Keebler, J.R. (2019). Medication safety in emergency medical services: approaching an evidence-based method of verification to reduce errors.

Title of Written Assignment:

Discuss the role of medication as being either “lifesaving” or “life changing-death” with regards to reducing errors during the pharmacotherapy process within the pre-hospital setting.

Length:

The assignment should be no less than 1000 words and not exceed 2000 words in length, with the theme font “Arial”; font size “12” and line spacing “1.15”.

Assignments must be submitted in the format and structure as detailed below (typed):

NOTE:

(a) Title page

(b) Introduction (100-250 words)

(c) Body: (outlining the main topic and/or ideas/ and/or themes) (800-1250 words)

(d) Conclusion (100-250 words)

(e) References

(f) SafeAssign report from Blackboard

Details of the above are as follows:

(a) The TITLE PAGE should include the student’s name, student number, Academic Honesty Statement (Signed)

(b) INTRODUCTION should show the scope of essay i.e., summarize what the essay is about.
(c) The BODY of the essay should contain all the requirements as outlined in the specific task and topic. The course learning outcomes could be used as a guide to formulate the structure (themes) of the body. Real world examples (cases) could be used to further aid in your discussion of the topic.

(d) The CONCLUSION is a summary of what you have found out in the investigation of your topic.

(e) REFERENCES should give full details of all literature used in the essay (Note this should not include details of references read but not used in written assignment).

(f) It is most important that you read and sign the Academic Honesty Statement that appears on the cover sheet. Unless this statement is signed the assignment will not be accepted.

(g) Submit your final version of your assignment via the Blackboard Course Tool SafeAssign and submit the report as part of your assignment documentation.

REFERENCING

 The only acceptable referencing style is APA unless otherwise specified by the facilitator. A guide to APA Reference Style methods are available from the following website:
(https://lib.nmu.edu/help/citation-tools).

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NB!!!!!!! Plagiarism:

It is most important that you read and sign the Academic Honesty Statement that should accompany your assignment as the Title Page & submit a SafeAssign report from Blackboard.