NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety Student
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Capella University
NURS-FPX 4020 Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety
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Improvement Plan Tool Kit
The significance of creating toolkits is becoming more and more evident as nurses and healthcare organizations work to promote an environment for quality as well as safety service. Constant assistance towards accessibility of these services is crucial in addition to the distribution of knowledge and conclusions supported by the scientific literature as well as the creation of toolkits. Training education can provide the opportunity for nurses to maintain this assistance outside of the office (Pesut & Greig, 2018). The nursing staff is skilled at helping individuals in times of emergency as well as supporting each other during their time of work. There, nursing staff can speak openly about their distinctive point of view, instruct other staff, in addition, can advance local and worldwide healthcare care well-being.
Annotated Bibliography
The Elements of a Successful Quality Improvement Initiative for the Administration of Medications
Holland, E., Bateman, B. T., Cole, N., Taggart, A., Robinson, L. A., Sugrue, R., Xu, X., & Robinson, J. N. (2019). Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention that eliminated routine use of opioids after cesarean delivery. Obstetrics & Gynecology, 133(1), 91–97. https://doi.org/10.1097/AOG.0000000000003010
Assuring that drugs are given accurately as well as safety is essential for ensuring effective medical treatment. There are six important elements to consider in the delivery of medication that is safe for the patient. These are listed below
- Route of administration
- Dosage time
- Type of medicine
- Dose calculation
- Specific patient to be administered
- Proper documentation
Liu, Y.-L., Chen, D., Shang, P., & Yin, D.-C. (2019). A review of magnet systems for targeted drug delivery. Journal of Controlled Release, 302, 90–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2019.03.031
Improvement in pharmaceutical delivery can be done in a number of ways. Particular work environments have an impact on safety issues such as errors while the administration of medicine to patients. Examples are a lack of professionals or high personnel turnover, numerous interruptions, poorly planned pharmaceutical safety rules, and a violation of laws as well as regulations.
NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety
Rodziewicz, T. L., Hipskind, J. E., & Houseman, B. (2022, May 1). Medical error prevention. National Library of Medicine; StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499956/
E-prescribing input, safety alerts regarding the safe use of medications, barcode readers of medicines, sophisticated intravenous pumps, and the use of containers having only a single dose are examples of technologies that have the ability to reduce or prevent errors when administering medications.
Providing patients and their nursing with adequate instructions regarding when to take medications at home as well as when to call nursing staff if they have any questions increases the effectiveness of health care. Look-alike and sound-alike i.e., LASA is the term that is broadly used for drugs that look alike as well as sound-alike to each other. These drugs have names that are very similar and can be mixed while their process of packaging dispensing and handling.
Bryan, R., Aronson, J. K., Williams, A., & Jordan, S. (2020). The problem of look‐alike, sound‐alike name errors: Drivers and solutions. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 87(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.14285
Numerous medications look alike or sound alike (LASA). These drugs can be mixed up if their names, packing, or administering device designs are identical. The Joint Commission has prepared a list of such kind of problematic medicines having confusing names. Significantly risky medications are more prone to be misused and cause harm to the health of the patient. To deal with this serious problem an institute of safe medication and practices has made a list of medicines that are risky and addictive for the health of the patient to be prescribed and administered only with great intention of the medically approved highly qualified practitioners an