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Collaborating With The Unit Clerk To Decrease Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration On A Medical Surgical Unit, Christine Dimaano
Collaborating With The Unit Clerk To Decrease Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration On A Medical Surgical Unit, Christine Dimaano
Master's Projects and Capstones
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Medical errors also incur significant cost ramifications due to increased hospital length of stay and fines. Medication errors, a type of medical error, are one of the most common types of inpatient errors. Nurses are most often are responsible for medication administration, but safety during medication administration should be a priority of all hospital personnel. Avoidable interruptions during medication administration contribute to medical errors. Decreasing interruptions require increased nurse assertiveness during medication administration, interdisciplinary cooperation and unit culture change. This project identified that educating the unit clerk …
Improving Patient Outcomes And Nurse Satisfaction By Reducing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administrations, Roberta Howard
Improving Patient Outcomes And Nurse Satisfaction By Reducing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administrations, Roberta Howard
Master's Projects and Capstones
Medication administration is an important part of nursing duties in acute-care settings. The nurse is responsible for prioritizing safe quality care when administering medications but errors do occur. This project addressed interruptions as one of the challenges of safe medication administration. The aims of this project are 1) to determine a standardized medication administration process 2) to identify perceived and actual interruptions on the unit and 3) to address and reduce the avoidable interruptions of calls, pages and call lights at the nurse station. The purpose of this project is to improve patient outcomes, nurse satisfaction and nurse workflow by …
Minimizing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration, Jaleel Anne Arnado
Minimizing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration, Jaleel Anne Arnado
Master's Projects and Capstones
The objective of this CNL Internship Project is to improve patient outcomes and nurse satisfaction by minimizing the avoidable interruptions that occur during medication administration. The microsystem is a pediatric and adult medical-surgical overflow unit at a large, urban teaching hospital in Northern California. A series of surveys for nurses and patients and observations of medication administrations were conducted to assess barriers during mediation administration. It was determined phone calls interrupt a nurse the most during medication administration. Interruptions leave the medication administration process vulnerable to errors because it disrupts the nurse’s workflow and thought process. Because most pediatric medication …
Reducing Avoidable Interruptions During The Medication Administration Process, Lindsay A. Umeda
Reducing Avoidable Interruptions During The Medication Administration Process, Lindsay A. Umeda
Master's Projects and Capstones
Background: Medication safety and preventing medication errors continues to be a high priority for hospitals and clinics, as medication errors are the most common and most costly errors in U.S. hospitals (Kliger, 2010, p. 690). Kliger (2010) reported that 450,000 medication errors occur annually, costing hospitals approximately $3.5 to 29 billion dollars a year. Furthermore, Ching, Long, Williams & Blackmore (2013) estimated that 770,000 injuries and deaths occur each year as a result of medication errors.
Purpose: To decrease medication errors by reducing the number of phone call and call light interruptions during the medication administration process.
Methods: Lippitt’s Change …
Improving Medication Administration And Patient Outcomes By Decreasing Avoidable Interruptions, Polly Nghiem
Improving Medication Administration And Patient Outcomes By Decreasing Avoidable Interruptions, Polly Nghiem
Master's Projects and Capstones
This Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) project took place at a level I trauma center in the San Francisco Bay Area, on a 34-bed Medical Surgical, Behavioral Medicine and Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Specialty Unit. The goal was to improve the adverse events made during medication administration, which in turn reduces medical error costs and improves patient outcomes and patient safety. A review of the literature revealed several key points: (1) Medication errors are increasingly recognized as a significant, but preventable problem in our health care system, (2) Interruptions are implicated as a cause of clinical error, (3) Medication …