To reduce medication mistakes and increase patient’s safety in a hospital setting, establishment of a multi-professional team including nurses, doctors and physicians is important for thorough planning (Taberna, 2020). This interdisciplinary team should define some realistic objectives and evaluate the circumstances to attain them. Healthcare workers should be regularly educated and trained through case studies and skill-based training on medication management and safe medical practices. Furthermore, healthcare workers should be updated and professionally progressed by workshops, short courses and conferences with best current medical practices (Mlambo et al., 2021).
An efficient approach for decreasing medication mistakes is implementation of BCMA technology for reduction of nurses’ work burden (Mulac et al., 2021). Moreover, to reduce the immense work burden on healthcare workers, hospitals can employ more nursing staff. By effective execution of these enhancement strategies will enhance patient’s healthcare quality and decrease patient’s mortality rate.
Establishment of policy regulations and laws for improvement of patient’s safety is important. Every healthcare worker and staff member should comply with these policy frameworks to avoid medication mistakes. Healthcare organizations can enhance a patient’s well-being and decrease the probability of medication mistakes by execution of these approaches.
Sufficient organizational resources are important for successful execution of safety enhancement plans e.g., safe medication management. These organizational resources are proper staffing, time, work and financial management. Budget allocation is important for the progress of any approach. Pre-budgeting should be completed while considering every cost and planning team should have an economics expert.
Appropriate time management is extremely paramount for successful execution of the plan (Barrot et al., 2021). To ensure reliability of the plan, work burden should be evenly distributed among the group members. Shifting the responsibilities to team members will reduce the workload on healthcare workers and concentrate on improved patient’s well-being. Training and employing new staff members is an expensive and time-consuming process. Thus, existing workers should be used for execution and quality of the approach to avoid time and economical losses.
Using the current organizational resources can significantly affect the execution of the safety enhancement design. Appropriate budget allocation and work burden distribution can decrease the load on healthcare workers and enhance patient’s well-being. Execution of these approaches assist in reducing medication mistakes and improve patient’s care quality and safety in a healthcare institute.
Composing and executing the safety enhancement design for medication management needs inter-professional team strategy, adequate training and education, technology execution i.e., BCMA and appropriate use of organizational resources like budgeting, time and workload management. By giving importance to these approaches and resources according to their productivities, hospitals can decrease medication mistakes, enhance patient’s health outcomes and safety and improve the care quality.
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