Question

a nurse completes their daily medication rounds and forgets to give a patient their medication. the pharmacy technician identifies there is an extra dose remaining. the technician should recognize the error as which of the following types of medication errors?
wrong time
omission
prescribing
monitoring

Explanation:

The nurse failed to administer the medication to the patient, which is an omission error. A wrong - time error would be giving the medication at an incorrect time, a prescribing error is related to the doctor's prescription, and a monitoring error pertains to not properly observing the patient's response to medication.

Answer:

B. Omission