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    Improving the Awareness of Medication Administration at a Primary Care Clinic
    (2023-05-30) Fernando, Tracy Lynne; Daub, Katharyn; Ayers-Kawakami, Jeanette
    Medication errors occur too frequently in healthcare. As such, a medication administration framework was created to help prevent such errors. The medication administration framework was initially called the five rights of medication administration. A practice improvement project stemmed from these rights as medication administration errors continued to occur among staff in a Primary Care Clinic. The overall goal of this project was to increase awareness and knowledge among the medical staff of a Primary Care Clinic with an educational in-service, which would ideally reduce medication errors. An educational program was created using a PowerPoint presentation. Participating staff were asked to complete a pre-questionnaire before the program started and a post-questionnaire after the presentation. A paired t-test found no statistical significance, p > 0.05, among the sessions. However, despite not having statistical significance, aggregate data showed improvement in each pre- and post-session for the educational program. Furthermore, despite the educational sessions and improvement in post-scores, the medication rights framework is still not ingrained within daily medical staff practice, which could result in future medication errors. This aspect may continue to threaten patient safety and should be further reviewed by the Primary Care Clinic.