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This video discusses the top nursing errors whether it is a medication errors, poor nursing documentation, or patient falls.

Medication errors occur when nurses get distracted and included given a patient a higher dose of a medication, giving the wrong medication, or simply not checking the patients labs or vitals prior to giving a medication that can affect these.

Documentation is the most important thing nurses need to do since it protects them from family member accusations which include lawsuits, patient investigations when things go wrong for a patient, and against other medical personal including physicians.

Finally, patient fall prevention is another medical error nurses make since it affects patient safety. Patient falls can fatally injure the individual and if nurses poorly document there fall precautions or implement there fall prevention plan as a nurse you might be held liable for the patients injury sustained in the hospital.