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Medication Use Risk Management: Hospital Meets Home Care

Deborah Anne Ondeck

Risk management is an objective strategy that seeks to eliminate or decrease the chances of financial loss and legal action. Risk management focuses on an actual mistake, an accident, or a potential similar occurrence. Risks occur in nursing in a variety of practice settings. Nursing has identified several key areas in which systematic change has improved and decreased the risk factor encountered in practice. This article targets medication usage and administration and the methods introduced in quality improvement processes to decrease risks and potentially reduce financial and legal risk.

Key Words: medication errors • medication use • nursing administration • quality improvement • risk management

Home Health Care Management & Practice, Vol. 12, No. 2, 5-10 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/108482230001200203


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