NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 3: Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation CAPELLA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES
Mar 2021
Content
- Importance of safe medication administration
- Purpose and goals of the in-service session
- Need for safety outcome
- Process of safety outcome
- Role and importance of the audience
- Resources to improve medication administration
- Activities for to skill development and QI plan
This is the content of the presentation. It begins with the importance of safe medication administration. We will look at the project objectives along with purpose and goals of the in-service session to understand what goals needs to achieved. Further, we will see how a team or role of the audience, which is you plays a critical role in this project. Then comes strategies, resources, and activities that will promote the Interprofessional group collaboration, skill development, and understanding process involved in safe medication administration. Further, resources and activities to encourage skill development and process understanding related to a safety improve initiative on medication administration.
Importance of safe medication administration
- Medication administration errors reduce quality care
- Increases threat to patient safety
- Increases burden on nurses
- Increased hospital stay
- Frequent hospital readmission
- Adverse effects and sentinel events
- Medication administration is a critical process where nurses play a key role. However, stakeholders such as physicians, pharmacists, informatics nurses, and other health care professionals contribute to it as the process includes medication prescription, dosage calculation, medication dispensing, and error monitoring. Error in any of the stages will lead to medication administration errors.
- There are different types of medication errors, which include dosage errors, wrong or improper package information, drug-drug interactions, mismatch in patient’s electronic health records, and poor medication administration (Schmidt et al., 2017). Some of the errors can have an adverse effect on patients and even lead to morbidity and mortality. In their study, Kang et al. (2017) reported that at least five near misses every month, 14.8% of dispensing errors, 4.3% administration errors, and 43.9% prescription errors were from 32 pharmacies. However, only 37.1% prescription errors, 57.4% administration errors, and 43.7% dispensing errors were reported. Salar et al. (2020) highlighted that prevalence of errors varies from 32.1% to 94%. Also, 23%, 38%, and 39% of medication errors were associated with pharmacies, nurses, and general practitioners respectively (Salar et al., 2020).
- Medication errors increase cost, the burden on dispensing, administration, and packaging units. Cumulatively, it leads to work burden on the nurses and reduces patient satisfaction level and trust in health care (Musharyanti et al., 2019).
- Risk factors include mortality, morbidity, and adverse effects. Every year, 7000 to 9000 patients in the US die due to medication errors (Tariq et al., 2021). The errors lead to increased hospital stay cost o $40 billion per year with more than 7 million patients affected by the issue (Thomas et al., 2017). As a result, it is important.
NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 3: Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation
Purpose of the in-service session
The purpose of the in-service session is to educate and prepare the nursing and health care professionals to understand the importance of an QI plan to increase medication administration safety by exploring process of safety outcome, role of health care professionals, resources needed to implement QI plan, and conduct activities to understand the process.
Objectives and goals
- To highlight need for safety QI plan for medication administration
- To improve knowledge and competency
- To improve communication skills among nursing personnel
- To increase interprofessional collaboration
- Understand strategies to implement QI plan
Objectives and goals
- Understand importance of interprofessional collaboration
- To update knowledge regarding different strategies