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Caution: Line-Of-Sight In Icu Designs, Diane C. Bartos
Caution: Line-Of-Sight In Icu Designs, Diane C. Bartos
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
It has been estimated that by the end of 2015, the U.S. will spend approximately $200 billion in new healthcare facilities construction. Infection prevention, patient and family satisfaction, and technologies influence contemporary designs of critical care units. All of these impacts have created larger patient care units, with a majority of single patient rooms. These larger spaces have created challenges for the clinicians to maintain the line-of-sight. The line-of-sight is one tool clinicians often use to maintain patient safety.
Since the seminal publication by the Institute of Medicine in 1999, patient safety concerns have escalated after revealing numerous deaths in …
Improving Patient Safety: Reducing Medication Errors In The Microsystem, Erica M. Dent
Improving Patient Safety: Reducing Medication Errors In The Microsystem, Erica M. Dent
Master's Projects and Capstones
In a 72-bed for-profit long-term acute care hospital located in an urban setting, there has been a fifteen percent increase of medication errors that the pharmacy department has detected across nursing, and pharmacy departments, as well as with physicians from both day and night shifts. Over the last month there has been a total of twenty-eight medication errors including the transcription, administration, evaluation, and documentation processes. The microsystem consists of a telemetry/medical-surgical unit as well as a small intensive care unit consisting of ten beds.
The prospectus details a project implemented to reduce medication errors within the microsystem. The steps …