A nurse asks a doctor about medication for a patient in a hospital. The doctor accidentally tells the nurse to give the patient the wrong medication, and the nurse follows the doctor’s orders. Which type

A nurse asks a doctor about medication for a patient in a hospital. The doctor accidentally tells the nurse to give the patient the wrong medication, and the nurse follows the doctor’s orders. Which type of medical error has occurred?

diagnostic error

medication error

equipment failure

An intern in a hospital reads an image from an X-ray and gives the patient a diagnosis. The image is hard to read, and the intern’s supervisor figures out that the diagnosis was wrong. Which type of medical error has occurred?

equipment failure

medication error

imaging error

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