Here’s how to access a collection of 19 articles on strategies for reducing interruptions and errors during medication administration that are dated within the last five years. Strategies include wearing vests/tabards with signage, educating nurses about safe medication administration and strategies for handling interruptions, creating a safe zone/no interruption zone, involving and educating patients, using signs, using safety pictograms, using a card instructing nurses how to respond to interruptions, integrating mindfulness exercises in medication administration, implementing and supporting nurses’ rights of medication administration, employing behavioral management strategies, and making sure all nurses on a unit do not administer meds at the same time.

a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage (http://health.library.emory.edu)
b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then paste the following links into your browser: https://tinyurl.com/y5dzngb3
d. The references will appear in PubMed. Click on a reference and you will see a Find it at Emory on the right side of the page which will provide links to full text within Emory University’s licensed resources. Emory Healthcare staff may send citations of needed articles they are unable to access to Ask a Librarian; a library staff person will request the article(s) from an outside library and email them to the EHC staff person upon arrival.

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Important message for Emory Decatur Nurses. The links will not work for you. To access these articles contact the Emory Decatur Library:

Emory Decatur Hospital
Jessica Callaway (Jessica.callaway@emoryhealthcare.org
404.501.1628