Background: Medication errors represent a serious problem in the hospital setting and remain a challenge to navigate among hospitalized patients in all departments. Mistakes in medication administration are considered a significant issue that threatens a patient's safety and may increase their hospital stay, treatment costs, and mortality rate. Medication errors commonly committed by nurses may include medication preparation or administration errors, which are associated with the highest risk areas in nursing practice. Methodology: A pretest-posttest, quasi-experimental, the observational design was used. Convenience sampling was employed to include all intravenous medication errors committed by nurses in three ICUs of Jordan University Hospital (pretest: 236 errors and post-test: 68 errors, respectively). A designed incident report was used for data collection. Data collection was carried out simultaneously in the three ICUs during nurses' preparation and administration of intravenous medications over two months for pretest and posttest data (May and June 2018). A tailored evidencedbased educational program designed using Phillips's Manual of I. V. Therapeutics: Evidence-based Practice for Infusion Therapy was furnished to all registered nurses utilizing structured classroom lectures and on-the-job training; moreover, educational medals of common medications and illustration posters were used as additional reminders.Results and Conclusion: More than half of nurses were females and held bachelor's degrees. Half of the observed medication errors were identified in the surgical ICU. Intravenous medication errors observed during the day shift were significantly higher in number than those in the night shift. A significant reduction in the number of medication errors was noted after the implementation of a bundle of interventions (i.e., there was a reduction from 236 errors to 68 errors). Giving (1) an omeprazole push and then (2) administering vancomycin rapidly thereafter, followed by (3) administering omeprazole at the wrong time, were the three most observed medication BioBacta

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Cerebral stroke (CVA) is a medical emergency that can cause permanent neurological damage or even death. According to the WHO statistics, stroke was the second most frequent cause of death worldwide in 2012 and the main cause of disability. The present study reported 82 year-old female case admitted to the medical department of the Jordan University Hospital through the ER with hypertension, right side weakness, global aphasia, tongue heaviness, dysphagia and was diagnosed with ischemic stroke. Even though more data is emerging about CVA, more efforts are needed to understand risk factors, treatment options, associated complications and stroke-related complications. In this case, the treatment options were discussed as well as some complications associated with ischemic cerebral stroke. In conclusion, post-stroke infection is common among hospitalized patients as a result of compromised immunity; however, this infection may take different forms like pneumonia, urinary tract infection or other forms of infections. Utilizing proper measures for prevention, early detection and management using proper antibiotics are of vast importance for patients post cerebral stroke. On the other hand, Gallbladder stones and cholecystitis are common complications developed after cerebral stroke and prolonged immobility for bedridden patients. CK-MB elevation post stroke is not likely to be of a cardiac origin.