PTCE - Patient Safety and Quality Assurance - Section 3.2
Apply error prevention strategies, including correct-patient verification, Tall Man lettering, inventory separation, leading and trailing zeros, bar code usage, and avoidance of error-prone abbreviations.
Apply error prevention strategies including Tall Man lettering, leading zeros (never trailing zeros for whole numbers), bar code medication administration, correct-patient verification, and avoidance of ISMP error-prone abbreviations. Choose the most appropriate strategy for a given dispensing or administration error risk.
Tall Man letteringLeading zeroBar code medication administrationError-prone abbreviation
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