Technology in relation to medication administration:
A) eliminates all sources of error.
B) substitutes for the knowledge of the practitioner.
C) eliminates the need for patient identification checks by the nurse.
D) provides safeguards that are not possible with manual medication administration systems.
E) has been shown to decrease the number of medication errors.

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Technology provides safeguards that reduce errors compared to manual systems and has been shown to decrease medication errors, but it does not eliminate all errors or replace the need for practitioner knowledge and patient identification checks.

Technology in Relation to Medication Administration