NHS FPX 4000 Assessment 3 Analyzing a Current Health Care Problem or Issue

Analyzing a current health care problem or issue

Medication errors 

The mortality rate due to different medication errors in the United State is between 7,000 and 9,000. Medication errors leading to adverse effects can easily cross hundreds of thousands of patients. Medication errors increase health care costs by $40 billion for every 7 million patients every year (Tariq et al., 2020). As a result, it is critical to address the issue to increase patient satisfaction, quality care, nurse competencies, coordination between health care and pharmacies, and establish a high-performing health care facility. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the medication error problems and solutions to mitigate them to propose and provide an action plan to implement the solution by considering its effectiveness and ethical implications. The paper first identifies different factors and elements that are associated with the issue, effects of these factors and issue, different types of medication errors, different solutions adopted by health care institutions, critical analysis of the solutions, proposed solution, its ethical consideration, and evidence-based change implementation model to implement and evaluate the solution.