Reducing Medication Errors
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Improving patient safety
The WIEGAND® system offers comprehensive and flexible solutions to increase medication and, ultimately, patient safety. Parallel to providing an improvement in the quality of care, the simple, modular system components are applicable to inpatient and ambulatory healthcare environments. Our systems reduce the work load of nurses and pharmacy assistants, resulting in a reduction in medication errors while substantially decreasing costs. |
Sustainable know-how
WIEGAND® has been studying medication processes for over forty years. Through close collaboration with care specialists, pharmacists and physicians across Europe, we continually develop our concepts to find new and practical solutions for our customers’ ever changing requirements. WIEGAND®’s concepts increase efficiency and improve the working process of nurses, thus leading to a decrease in medication errors. The WIEGAND® products are durable and have an outstanding cost-benefit ratio, which effectively facilitates the lowering of health care costs.
Day medication prepared according to administration times
In order to guarantee a smoothly running day on the ward, the medication must be well planned and prepared in advance. Based on correct care documentation, all drugs for a whole day are put into the appropriate compartments of the medicine dispensers according to the prescribed administration times. Control of the prepared medication and their administration times is thus secured.
Avoiding errors
• Check the patient’s identity
• Ensure that dosage calculations are checked independently by another health care professional before the drug is administered
• Make sure that prescription, drug, and patient match
• Make certain that the medication is given at the correct time
• Minimise interruptions during drug rounds
Source: Medication errors, DJP Williams,
J R Coll Physicians Edinb 2007; 37:343–346 |
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Reducing errors through the four-eyes principle
Drug therapies (medications) for all patients should be ideally prepared during a calm period. This task requires the highest level of concentration and should never take place at a patient’s bedside. Before administering medicines to a patient, drugs prepared in a medication dispenser should be controlled by a second person to aid in reducing medication errors.
WIEGAND® MediDispenser
• The sliding lid opens in one direction only
• This secures the administration sequence
• 4 to 12 flexibly adjustable compartments(1 for each administration)
• Hygienic and economical (semi disposable)
• Tight sliding lid
Adaptable medication processes
Medication processes differ substantially in terms of the logistical framework in which they are applied. A nursing home, operating with centrally or even externally prepared medications has different workflows to the medical or surgical department of a hospital. The more acute the treatments are, the shorter are the processes and operating times and thus the higher are the corresponding needs for quality in care and the costs of an incorrect treatment.
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Professional WIEGAND® Medication Prepare Stations
Empirical research illustrates that when using a professionally furnished Medication Prepare Station, medicines for 20 patients can be prepared in approximately one hour. Decentralised ward- and satellite pharmacies with a Medication Prepare Station are set up to manage between 40 and 100 patients.
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