bar-code medication administration (BCMA)

Bar-code medication administration (BCMA)
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Bar-code medication administration (BCMA)
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BCMA is one of the systems used in medication to reduce electronic errors. It has the benefit of verifying to the medication administration that right patient receives right drugs at the right time. It is also used by nurses to scan their barcodes for easy identification. Many of the systems have adopted this automatic BCMA to fasten the medication process. The technology has also been used to reduce all the number of both late and early administration in most hospitals early (Dwibedi, et al., 2011). Thus it has been used to reduce the potential adverse of drugs which are always related to the transcription errors. The final benefit is that it has been as an additional b safety net in medication administration because with the help of close integration both medication and pharmacy administration, it has helped to review all systems in ensuring that only nurses are allowed to monitor and give medications to the patients. This must be done only after the pharmacists have reviewed all the medication orders (Vanderboom, 2016). Therefore, it allows patients to benefit more from the pharmacist’s clinical approach. The primary barrier to BCMA is lack of enough evidence that BCMA reduces all the medication errors in hospital thus making it be a problem for it to be applied in all hospitals.
Q2
The use of barcodes for automating the data can easily cause the medication errors thus affecting the patients.

Another practice is the traditional or paper-based process used in administering the drugs to the patients (Lee, et al., 2015). In this case, the medication orders are manually transcribed by a physician and the nurse also manually verifies it before giving it to the patient. It is the risk because the drugs have not been electronically identified.
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To avoid the errors mentioned above, the physicians are not supposed to verify the drugs and give patients manually. In addition, all the medication needs to be verified electronically before being administered to the patients. This will help in avoiding all the errors related to medication.

References
Dwibedi, N., Sansgiry, S. S., Frost, C. P., Dasgupta, A., Jacob, S. M., Tipton, J. A., & Shippy, A. A. (2011). Effect of bar-code-assisted medication administration on nurses’ activities in an intensive care unit: A time-motion study. American Journal Of Health-System Pharmacy, 68(11), 1026-1031. doi:10.2146/ajhp100382
Lee, B. C., Lee, S., Kwon, B. C., & Yi, J. S. (2015). What Are the Causes of Noncompliance Behaviors in Bar Code Medication Administration System Processes?. International Journal Of Human-Computer Interaction, 31(4), 227-252. doi:10.1080/10447318.2014.986641
Vanderboom, C. E. (2016). Leadership Strategies, An Interdisciplinary Team, and Ongoing Nurse Feedback: Ingredients For a Successful BCMA Project. Nursing Economic$, 34(3), 117-125.