NURSFPX4020 Capella Assessment 3: Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation Sample Approach 2

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NURSFPX4020 Capella Assessment 3: Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation Sample Approach 2

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Institutional Affiliation

  • Medication error is an preventable adverse event that occurs during
Introduction

prescribing, transcribing or dispensing.

  • It has escalated at the medical facility due to various factors such as workloads, inadequate training and distractions (Farzi et (2017)
  • Medication errors result in patient harm, increased hospital stay, escalated medical costs or even
  • Addressing this issue will help avoid unintended consequences in the long
Agenda
Agenda and Outcomes
  • We have conducted extensive research on Root Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement plan over the past
  • Based on the obtained results, more emphasis will be channeled to proper staff training on safe medication
  • Some of our key topics of interest include:
  • Safety improvement
  • Audience role and importance
  • New skills and
  • Sessions will last for 3-4 days
Agenda and Outcomes
  • Outcomes
•     By the end of the training, the staff will:
  • Understand the appropriate strategies to avoid the common medication
  • Provide effective evidence based
  • Appreciate the role of teamwork and effective
  • Learn new skills and
  • Understand the importance of medication safety in a healthcare
Safety Improvement

Plan

  • The medical facility has recorded immense medication errors over the past 8
  • Addressing this issue is vital since it will:
  • Reduce morbidity and mortality
  • Minimize healthcare related
  • Improve work
  • Preserve organizational
  • Promote a safe working
  • Avoid lawsuits (Kasemsap, 2017)..
Safety Improvement

Plan

Below is the proposed safety plan

  • Embrace health information technology to avoid human error (Hughes & Ortiz, 2015).

•      Reinforce effective communication to foster collaboration.

  • Increase nurse staffs to minimize

•      Provide staff training to instill new competencies.

  • Minimize interruption to promote
Audience’s Role and Importance
  • Staff audience will help implement and drive the plan through:
    • Making comments or further
  • Role
  • Sharing personal experience on medication
  • Taking
  • Helping win top management support through campaign where
  • Embracing the plan
Audience’s Role and Importance
  • The audience are importance because they:
  • Are directly affected by the improvement
  • Are integral part of the
  • Their response and perception towards the plan significantly determines its success.
  • By embracing their roles in the plan, the audience’s work could benefit by:
  • Recording minimal medication
  • Gaining credibility and trust from their
  • Increasing the overall
New Process and Skills Practice

•     “Five Rights” of medication administration can encourage skill development and process understanding.

  • Right patient
  • Right drug
  • Right dose
  • Right route
  • Right time
  • These guides are accepted and recognized for safe medication (Martyn et al., 2019).
New Process and Skills Practice
  • Further processes and skill practice include:
  • Role play by providers to ensure effective practice of medication
  • Provide rigorous activities related to medication labels, and medication orders to stimulate critical
  • Provide questions worksheets to be completed at specified
Soliciting Feedback
•     Feedback can be solicited by:
  • Asking for
  • Conducting feedback surveys at the end of
  • Performing exploratory audience
  • Asking
•     Integrating the feedback for future reference:
  • Respond to feedbacks
  • Making the necessary
  • Compile the
  • The presented agendas and outcomes are relatable and necessary in prevention of medication errors.
Conclusion
  • The proposed improvement plan is tailored to work in the best interest of patient
  • The involved audience have pertinent roles and significance that makes them more impactful in the
  • Strategic processes and skills practice are necessary for effective medication
  • Soliciting audience feedback is an integral process and aids in making the appropriate future improvements.

References

  • CDC, (2017) Medication Safety https://www.cdc.gov/medicationsafety/basics.html
  • Farzi, S., Irajpour, A., Saghaei, M., & Ravaghi, H. (2017). Causes of medication errors in intensive care units from the perspective of healthcare Journal of research in pharmacy practice, 6(3), 158.
  • Hughes, R. G., & Ortiz, E. (2015). Medication errors: why they happen, and how they can be prevented. Journal of infusion nursing, 28, 14-24.
  • Kasemsap, (2017). The perspectives of medical errors in the health care industry. In Impact of medical errors and malpractice on health economics, quality, and patient safety (pp. 113-143). IGI Global.
  • Martyn, -A., Paliadelis, P., & Perry, C. (2019). The safe administration of medication: Nursing behaviours beyond the five-rights.
  • Nurse Education in Practice, 37, 109–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2019.05.006

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