Medicine and Health Sciences Commons^™

Launching A Checklist Aimed At Sustainability To Reduce Blood Specimen Labeling Errors, Gina Marone Dr

DNP Scholarly Projects

Critical actions carried out by health care providers to prevent health care errors include accurate patient identification and blood specimen labeling. With a goal of zero harm, improperly identified blood specimens drawn by nurses employed in the acute care setting and Emergency Department at Albert Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia were tabulated and revealed labeling errors. The Nursing Department launched a rapid improvement nurse education plan that resulted in decreased specimen errors compared to baseline counts and suggested the need to sustain error reduction strategies. This initiative was followed by the creation of a policy- and evidence-based checklist and its associated …