Advancing Medication Safety with BCMA Systems in Nursing

Advancing Medication Safety with BCMA Systems in Nursing

Assessment 3: Evidence-Based Proposal and Annotated Bibliography on Technology in Nursing

Electronic Medication Administration With Barcoding.
Barcoded Medication Administration (BCMA) is a system for controlling inventory that utilizes barcodes and aims at preventing errors when prescribing medications within a healthcare facility (Thompson et al., 2018). The objective of a BCMA is to ensure that patients receive the right medication at the right time through the electronic documentation and validation of medications. The information in barcodes allows medications to be compared between those ordered for the patient and those administered (Thompson et al., 2018).

The BCMA system comprises software, a computer server, a mobile internet-accessing computer, a barcode…