What This Document Is
This document is a student assignment completed by Nadege Desrivieres for Capella University’s NURS 4020: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety course, submitted on January 15, 2021. It focuses on applying research skills to the critical issue of medication errors in nursing.
Why This Document Matters
This assignment is intended for the course instructor, Professor Wanda Williamson, as a demonstration of the student’s ability to locate, evaluate, and briefly summarize scholarly sources related to a specific healthcare problem. It’s part of the coursework designed to build research competency in nursing students.
Common Limitations or Challenges
This is a student work and represents a preliminary exploration of the topic. It is not a comprehensive literature review or a definitive guide to medication error prevention. It serves as an assessment of research skills, not a complete analysis of the subject matter.
What This Document Provides
The assignment includes a brief introduction to the problem of medication errors, followed by summaries of three scholarly articles: Gorgich et al. (2016), Musharyanti et al. (2019), and Izadpanah et al. (2018). Each summary includes information about the source database, the authors’ key findings, and an assessment of the article’s relevance and reliability. This preview does *not* include the full text of the articles themselves, nor does it offer in-depth analysis or recommendations.
