Abstract: Journal of Critical Care Research and Emergency Medicine

Abstract:
Our unit is a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), primarily admitting premature infants with unstable vital signs and patients under 18, necessitating frequent emergency medication therapy. Despite emergency medications available in ambulances, many must be administered within 30 minutes after doctor’s issue emergency PRN orders orders. However, only 50% of these orders are completed on time. The current process involves nurses calling the pharmacy for medication dispensing times, leading to delays and two medication errors annually. Thus, this prompted the author to improve the timeliness of emergency medication administration aiming to facilitate urgent treatment and prevent errors.