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Why BMV - Resident Safety
BMV decreases errors
- Opportunity for errors
- 588 Residents / 10 meds per day / 5880 med per day
- 2,146,200 Meds per year
- Average Medication Error Rate 6%
- What if we only have 1% = 21,462 errors per year
- 0.1% = 2146 Errors
- Noted through observation - Errors Prevented
- Wrong dose errors prevented
- Wrong medication errors prevented
- Wrong resident errors prevented
Notes:
ICU- Wrong Medication nurse pulled ASA EC order was for plain.
Ltc- Wrong Med nurse pulled Ibu order was for ASA. Just grabbed the wrong med out of cart
Acute- Wrong med pulled from Pyxis caught with BMV
LTC- XR ordered but resident was getting plain medication.
Acute/LTC—Wrong patient eMAR open.
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