Nurse’s Role in Coordinating Care to Enhance Quality & Reduce Costs NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 1 Enhancing Quality and Safety

Many stakeholders should be recognized for enhancing the quality and improving patient risk at an organization. The stakeholders include educators, as they are responsible for providing guidelines and nurses who are administering medications, physicians, and nurses who work closely with the patients and have a crucial role, researchers who identify the prevalence outlining the problem, and professional bodies like the government and administrators approaching patient safety (Cho et al., 2020). These stakeholders are relevant because nurses are recognized to be the important stakeholders that work closely with the patient, and any move they make impacts the patient. They have to adhere to protocols, be transparent, and provide awareness to the patients to avoid errors. Educators provide the training nurses need to adhere to the safety protocols and guidelines to handle and maintain the devices they are using. Researchers are linked and are stakeholders as they provide studies for evidence-based practices for the nurses giving them data as evidence so they can prepare a patient care plan. Professional bodies like policymakers, administrators, and government help with allocating different resources and coming up with policies that work in favor of the patient increasing their satisfaction. All these stakeholders are not only relevant but also important as educators would work forward to improve the skills of the nurses so they recognize errors, avoid them, and handle technology. Whereas, the nurses and the policy makers would impact the patient satisfaction so they are really important to recognize issues and work closely with the patients to determine the right interventions.

Medication errors as discussed before cost billions of dollars every year. Nurses work closely with the patients and are such important stakeholders they should have the responsibility to adhere to the policies and guidelines and also recognize the strategies of the organization being able to identify risks and harms. They should offer the best assistance by making double-checking mandatory. Proper planning of care should be done by them, should be able to carry out surveillance activities, and be able to handle the electronic tools of intervention efficiently. Efficient communication skills should be acquired so there is a collaboration with other healthcare professionals (Vais et al., 2020). Such steps would reduce and cut down the costs that are spent on the prolonged stays of the patient at hospitals and the cost of treatment for patients who experience an adverse event like medication error. With proper training and adherence to the principles of patient safety, adverse events like the one with Sam could be easily avoided. 

Conclusion

Nurses have a crucial role when working with patients, it is their responsibility to not add to the stress of patients like Sam who have just been diagnosed with cancer. Proper interventions with electronic systems of medication administration and prescriptions should take place to alarm the nurse in case of any negligence. Workload should be reduced for the nurses by changing shift timings and assigning leadership roles to divide tasks. Nurses should adhere to protocols, make double-checking mandatory, and have effective communication, and collaboration.

References

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