Date of incident: 20/02/2013

Error type: dispensing error

Patient age: 71

Patient sex: female

Brief summary of incident: Only gave one roll of absorbent cotton instead of two.

Name of medication: absorbent cotton;

Level of harm that could have occurred: 1

The reason you think the potential harm is at the level you have chosen:
Not serious.

Possible cause/contributory factors: Rushing and overlooking the quantity

Reasons why incident occurred and actions required to prevent reoccurence:
read everything slowly and clearly

Best description of this error/near miss:
wrong quantity