Medication errors occur every day and are caused by many different aspects such as: dispensing errors, prescription errors, administration errors, mistakes in the calculation of drug concentration, incorrect storage ,under staffing, similar medication bottles, poor or illegible physician order, failure to monitor the patient after administering medications, and one of the primary causes lack of communication. In one of my articles by the name of Preventing medication errors in transitions of care: A patient case approach, there was an 84 year old patient with a complicated medical history which included chronic heart failure. At the time of admission the nurse that was responsible for this patient further complicated her diagnosis by not asking
