1. Reporting medication errors, ME. Reporting medication errors is a very important step in correction and prevention of future errors (Abuelsoud, 2018) In order to prevent future mistakes from happening we have to learn from the ones that have already been made. Some nurses might be fearful to report medication errors. Therefore, we should teach nurses that reporting ME's is crucial for the patient's safety and will help us formulate our corrective action.

2. Education. We need to be educating future healthcare professionals of the importance of safe medication administration. Medication safety should be embedded into their standard curriculum (Grimes & Guinan, 2022). Interprofessional education is also necessary in the prevention of medication errors and will promote patient safety (Irajpour, Farzi, Saghaei & Ravaghi, 2019). We can utilize new technology such as simulation which allows the Nurse to practice passing medications without causing harm. It has also been proven that new RN's using simulation has improved medication administration knowledge and closed a major knowledge gap (Myroniak & Elder, 2021).

3. STAR (stop, think, act & review) This is a method used by Sentara to prevent safety errors. Before the administration of medications, the nurse should STOP what they are doing, slow down and focus on the patient at hand. THINK about what they are giving, who are they giving it too, is it the correct dose and route, is it the right time to give this to the patient? Then they can ACT or give the medication if everything is correct. Lastly, the nurse should REVIEW all steps and be sure the medication was administered correctly.