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:

• "Wrong time" involves administering at incorrect time, not relevant here.
• "Omission" is failure to administer a prescribed medication, which matches the nurse forgetting to give the medication (extra dose remaining means it wasn't given).
• "Prescribing" error is from the prescriber, not the nurse's administration.
• "Monitoring" error relates to assessing patient response, not administration failure.

Answer:

B. Omission