Research using Peer-Review Journal Articles I started my search in the Capella library. By using the Summon search box I searched for topics like medication errors, new nurse medication errors, and patient safety medications. Then, I refined my search to scholarly and peer reviewed journal articles. I further refined my search to publications within the last five years. To determine if the articles are credible, I examined the publishing journal and also the author. In order to be credible, the author must have a professional background in healthcare and be well respected. In the articles chosen by me, the authors were professors in the healthcare field. It was important to me that these chosen sources provided examples of medication errors of “real life” situations and included data to prove it. In addition, I also was looking for solutions for patient safety in medication administration. Annotated Bibliography Cloete , L. (2015). Reducing medication errors in nursing practice. Nursing Standard (2014), 29(20), 50-59. doi:http://dx.doi.org.library.capella.edu/10.7748/ns.29.20.50.e9507 In this article, the author determined that interruptions and distractions accounted for the main causes of medication errors. Common causes of interruptions or distractions include a secondary task such as; patient alarms, patient questions, physician or staff questions. The article stressed that medication administration utilizes skill-based and knowledgebased focus for successful medication administration. Prioritizing distractions or minimising distractions may be part of the solution to reduce errors in medication administration. Other potential solutions include implementing “interruption free-zones” during staff medication times. The article also stressed that nurses need to recognize which interruptions need immediate attention versus interruptions that can wait. The article also stated that 76% of nurses that have made errors don’t always report their medication error to their managers or supervisors. Often nurses feared disciplinary or negative reaction by their manager. “A safe reporting environment that encourages staff engagement to identify contributory factors as well as possible solutions must also be fostered” This article was chosen because interruptions are very common in nursing practice. The article provides solutions to minimizing interruptions during medication administration. I think nursing units should implement interruption-free zones to reduce errors. Also, the article stated that providing a safe environment for reporting errors is key to increase patient safety by reducing medication errors. Härkänen, M., Tiainen, M., & Haatainen, K. (2017) Wrong‐patient incidents during medication administrations. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 27: 715– 724. Retrieved from https://doi-org.library.capella.edu/10.1111/jocn.14021 This article focused on wrong-patient medication administration and the contributing factors related to the medication error. Patients with similar conditions, similar medications regimens, similarities between patients names with neighboring patients, all contributed to caused wrong patient medication administration. Failure to correctly identify the patient is the most common cause (77%). Nurses in the survey omitted this step because they felt they knew their patient. Another reason was “nurses were concerned that repeatedly asking for the patients’ identity could harm their dignity” Other factors in wrong patient medication errors include, fatigue, negligence,