A patient you are caring for complains of severe stomach pain. As a pediatric nurse, you administer a medication to relieve the pain; however, the patient's physician did not write an order for this particular medication. What type of error has been committed?

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Administering medication without a physician's order is an act of commission, which means doing something that should not have been done. This is different from an act of omission, which involves not doing something that should have been done.

A Patient You Are Caring for Complains of Severe Stomach