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Medication Error Reporting in Senior Living & Care

How effective medication error reporting systems improve safety, enable learning, and prevent future errors.

What this article explains:

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    Topic: Medication Error Reporting and Safety Culture in Senior Living & Care
  • Who this is for: Clinical directors, nurses, administrators, and quality assurance teams in senior living & care communities
  • Problems addressed: Underreporting of medication errors, punitive reporting culture, missed learning opportunities, recurring errors
  • Systems involved: Incident reporting systems, root cause analysis, error tracking dashboards, quality improvement workflows
  • Why this matters now: A non-punitive safety culture is essential for error prevention and continuous quality improvement

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Executive Summary

A culture of safety encourages error reporting without fear of retribution. Effective reporting systems enable learning, prevent recurrence, and improve medication safety.

Error Reporting Culture

Creating a culture where errors are reported without fear enables learning and improvement. Non-punitive reporting systems encourage staff to report errors and near-misses.

Safety Culture

Non-punitive reporting encourages error reporting and learning.

Prevention

Analysis of errors enables prevention of future incidents.

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