Medication reconciliation in the acute care setting: opportunity and challenge for nursing.

Carol Sullivan; Kristine M. Gleason; Denise Rooney; Jennifer M. Groszek; Cynthia Barnard

Commentary

Medication reconciliation in the acute care setting: opportunity and challenge for nursing.

May 4, 2005

Sullivan C, Gleason KM, Rooney D, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2005;20(2):95-98.

View more articles from the same authors.

The authors present medication reconciliation as a key piece in ensuring safety for patients and underscore the important role nurses play in this process. In addition, the nurse's role in compiling a complete medication history is outlined.

PubMed citation

Free full text

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Patient safety in nursing practice.

July 20, 2005

Quest for the ideal: a redesign of the medication use system.

January 31, 2007

Enhancing high alert medication knowledge among pharmacy, nursing, and medical staff.

June 2, 2021

The trigger tool as a method to measure harmful medication errors in children.

May 13, 2015

Development and validation of a brief culture-of-safety survey.

June 22, 2022

Patient safety: planting the seed.

July 20, 2005

Nurses' perceptions of causes of medication errors and barriers to reporting.

December 20, 2006

Data collection for adverse events reporting by US dental schools.

September 30, 2020

A nurse-driven system for improving patient quality outcomes.

April 12, 2006

In the eye of the storm: the role of the pharmacist in medication safety during the COVID-19 pandemic at an urban teaching hospital.

December 23, 2020

Intravenous medication safety and smart infusion systems: lessons learned and future opportunities.

October 19, 2005

The critical need for nursing education to address the diagnostic process.

February 17, 2021

Accuracy of pressure ulcer events in US nursing home ratings.

August 24, 2022

Structural empowerment, Magnet hospital characteristics, and patient safety culture: making the link.

April 5, 2006

Medication reconciliation at hospital discharge: a qualitative exploration of acute care nurses' perceptions of their roles and responsibilities.

March 23, 2022

Physicians-in-training attitudes on patient safety: 2003 to 2008.

September 7, 2011

A systematic review of nursing practice workarounds.

October 19, 2022

An evolving hospital quality star rating system from CMS: aligning the stars.

May 26, 2021

Enhancing healthcare process design with human factors engineering and reliability science, part 1: setting the context.

January 16, 2008

Frequency of medication administration timing error in hospitals: a systematic review.

March 29, 2023

The nurse's role in the causation of compensable injury.

October 12, 2011

Reporting of hazards and near-misses in the ambulatory care setting.

October 19, 2011

Beyond communication: the role of standardized protocols in a changing health care environment.

January 11, 2012

Referrals of infection control breaches to public health authorities: ambulatory care settings experience, 2017.

September 23, 2020

Examining medication errors in a tertiary hospital.

December 20, 2006

Perceptions of nurses who are second victims in a hospital setting.

December 22, 2021

Measures and measurement of high-performance work systems in health care settings: propositions for improvement.

February 9, 2011

Nursing strategies to safeguard COVID-19 patients from harm in the intensive care unit.

December 8, 2021

The safety culture in a children's hospital.

July 12, 2006

Wrong-site surgery.

December 13, 2017

Outcomes-based nurse staffing during times of crisis and beyond.

February 16, 2022

Creating psychological safety in interprofessional simulation for health professional learners: a scoping review of the barriers and enablers.

May 18, 2022

Providers' and patients' perspectives on diagnostic errors in the acute care setting.

February 15, 2023

The impact of "missed nursing care" or "care not done" on adults in health care: a rapid review for the Consensus Development Project.

April 13, 2022

Does employee safety matter for patients too? Employee safety climate and patient safety culture in health care.

May 20, 2015

Taking aim at infusion confusion.

April 12, 2006

A comprehensive quality assurance program for personnel and procedures in radiation oncology: value of voluntary error reporting and checklists.

August 7, 2013

Impact of patient safety culture on missed nursing care and adverse patient events.

March 20, 2019

Barriers to and facilitators of bedside nursing handover: a systematic review and meta-synthesis.

July 7, 2021

Workplace empowerment and magnet hospital characteristics as predictors of patient safety climate.

June 25, 2008

Quantifying nursing workflow in medication administration.

January 9, 2008

Description and factors associated with missed nursing care in an acute care community hospital.

October 17, 2018

Am I safe here? Improving patients' perceptions of safety in hospitals.

January 25, 2006

Optimizing Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Care Setting.

October 19, 2022

The Shift Coupon: an innovative method to monitor adverse events.

January 18, 2006

Patient safety in the NICU: a comprehensive review.

July 6, 2011

Patient perception of fall risk and fall risk screening scores.

March 15, 2023

Team-based approach to improving medication reconciliation rates in family medicine residency clinics.

October 7, 2020

Active surveillance using electronic triggers to detect adverse events in hospitalized patients.

June 14, 2006

Impact of state nurse practitioner regulations on potentially inappropriate medication prescribing between physicians and nurse practitioners: a national study in the United States.

December 8, 2021

Medication dosing safety for pediatric patients: recognizing gaps, safety threats, and best practices in the emergency medical services setting. A position statement and resource document from NAEMSP.

August 26, 2020

Bracing for the storm: one health care system's planning for the COVID-19 surge.

November 11, 2020

The effect of implementing bar-code medication administration in an emergency department on medication administration errors and nursing satisfaction.

October 21, 2020

Assessing patients 2019 experiences with medical injury reconciliation processes: item generation for a novel survey questionnaire.

May 5, 2021

Association between unmet nonmedication needs after hospital discharge and readmission or death among acute respiratory failure survivors: a multicenter prospective cohort study.

February 15, 2023

A concept analysis of undergraduate nursing students speaking up for patient safety in the patient care environment.

August 3, 2016

A mixed methods evaluation of medication reconciliation in the primary care setting.

March 2, 2022

The power of collaboration with patient safety programs: building safe passage for patients, nurses, and clinical staff.

January 3, 2007

Exploring nurses' attitudes, skills, and beliefs of medication safety practices.

August 24, 2022

Medication errors in overweight and obese pediatric patients: a systematic review.

February 9, 2022

A retrospective audit of postoperative days alive and out of hospital, including before and after implementation of the WHO surgical safety checklist.

February 2, 2022

Association of clinical nursing work environment with quality and safety in maternity care in the United States.

November 11, 2020

Nursing guidelines for comprehensive harm prevention strategies for adult patients in acute hospitals: an integrative review and synthesis.

February 23, 2022

A systematic review of the effect of telepharmacy services in the community pharmacy setting on care quality and patient safety.

June 30, 2021

The association between nurse staffing and omissions in nursing care: a systematic review.

July 11, 2018

The relationship between patient safety culture and the intentions of the nursing staff to report a near-miss event during the COVID-19 crisis.

April 5, 2023

Sleepy nurses: are we willing to accept the challenge today?

June 20, 2007

Untenable expectations: nurses' work in the context of medication administration, error, and the organization.

February 1, 2023

Root causes of adverse drug events in hospitals and artificial intelligence capabilities for prevention.

May 5, 2021

Validation of the second victim experience and support tool-revised in the neonatal intensive care unit.

January 12, 2022

Building nursing intellectual capital for safe use of information technology: a systematic review.

February 9, 2011

The quality of hospital work environments and missed nursing care is linked to heart failure readmissions: a cross-sectional study of US hospitals.

March 4, 2015

Implementation of patient centeredness to enhance patient safety.

January 31, 2006

Adopting the Fall Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety (TIPS) program to engage older adults in fall prevention in a nursing home.

February 17, 2021

Influencing a culture of quality and safety through huddles.

November 9, 2022

Standardized assessment of medication reconciliation in post-acute care.

April 27, 2022

Missed nursing care in the critical care unit, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparative cross-sectional study.

June 22, 2022

Quantifying discharge medication reconciliation errors at 2 pediatric hospitals.

October 27, 2021

A look into the nature and causes of human errors in the intensive care unit.

March 27, 2005

Implementing the clinical occurrence reporting and learning system: a double-loop learning incident reporting system in long-term care.

March 24, 2021

Advanced medication reconciliation: a systematic review of the impact on medication errors and adverse drug events associated with transitions of care.

June 16, 2021

Acute care patients discuss the patient role in patient safety.

April 6, 2011

Failure to rescue in neonatal care.

September 7, 2011

Risk factors for clinically relevant deviations in patients' medication lists reported by patients in personal health records: a prospective cohort study in a hospital setting.

March 2, 2022

A comprehensive estimation of the costs of 30-day postoperative complications using actual costs from multiple, diverse hospitals.

October 14, 2020

Perspectives on patient and family engagement with reduction in harm: the forgotten voice.

August 15, 2018

Professional behavior and value erosion: a qualitative study of physicians and the electronic health record.

November 9, 2022

The safety of emergency care systems: results of a survey of clinicians in 65 US emergency departments.

March 4, 2009

Association between limiting the number of open records in a tele-critical care setting and retract-reorder errors.

July 21, 2021

Fall prevention with the Smart Socks System reduces hospital fall rates.

September 7, 2022

Working conditions that support patient safety.

October 12, 2005

To what extent is the World Health Organization's Medication Safety Challenge being addressed in English hospital organizations? A descriptive study.

February 16, 2022

The Critical Care Safety Study: the incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care.

August 24, 2005

Exploring the concept of medication discrepancy within the context of patient safety to improve population health.

December 9, 2009

Crowding in the Emergency Department: Challenges for the Care of Children.

March 15, 2023

Implementation, CPOE, and medication errors.

June 8, 2005

Medication errors at hospital admission and discharge: risk factors and impact of medication reconciliation process to improve healthcare.

October 20, 2021

Medication safety: look-alike/sound-alike drugs in home care.

April 27, 2005

Differences in hospitals' workplace violence incident reporting practices: a mixed methods study.

May 18, 2022

A mixed-methods systematic review of interventions to address incivility in nursing.

July 15, 2020

Related Resources

Annual Perspective

Annual Perspective: Topics in Medication Safety

March 31, 2022

Geriatric medication reconciliation in the home setting.

July 21, 2021

Ensuring effective care transition communication: implementation of an electronic medical record-based tool for improved cancer treatment handoffs between clinic and infusion nurses.

August 21, 2019

Teaching nurses to make clinical judgments that ensure patient safety.

August 14, 2019

Understanding patient safety and quality outcome data.

March 20, 2019

Targeting the fear of safety reporting on a unit level.

March 20, 2019

Debriefing in the OR: a quality improvement project.

March 13, 2019

Decreasing surgical site infections by developing a high reliability culture.

February 6, 2019

Using good catches to promote a just culture and perioperative patient safety.

December 12, 2018

Blame: what does it look like?

November 14, 2018

Impact of nurse peer review on a culture of safety.

October 3, 2018

Guideline implementation: team communication.

September 12, 2018

Preventing medication errors in the information age.

September 5, 2018

Disclosure and apology: nursing and risk management working together.

August 8, 2018

A culture of civility: positively impacting practice and patient safety.

April 25, 2018

Medication errors involving nursing students: a systematic review.

February 7, 2018

Practical application of high-reliability principles in healthcare to optimize quality and safety outcomes.

February 7, 2018

Taking bullying out of health care: a patient safety imperative.

January 10, 2018

White paper on recommendation for systems-based practice competency.

December 6, 2017

Workarounds are routinely used by nurses—but are they ethical?

November 8, 2017

Improving patient safety by practicing in a just culture.

July 12, 2017

Using simulation to prepare nursing staff for the move to a new building.

April 26, 2017

Teaching students to administer medications safely.

April 19, 2017

Promoting civility in the OR: an ethical imperative.

March 8, 2017

Opioids for pain management in older adults: strategies for safe prescribing.

February 22, 2017

Incorporating quality and safety values into a CLABSI simulation experience.

September 28, 2016

Health care worker fatigue.

September 21, 2016

Medication double-checking procedures in clinical practice: a cross-sectional survey of oncology nurses' experiences.

September 7, 2016

Caregiver fatigue: implications for patient and staff safety—part 1 and part 2.

September 7, 2016

The problem with medication reconciliation.

August 31, 2016

See More About The Topic

Medication Reconciliation

Medication reconciliation in the acute care setting: opportunity and challenge for nursing.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Medication reconciliation in the acute care setting: opportunity and challenge for nursing.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site