NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Attempt 1 Improvement Plan Tool Kit

NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Attempt 1 Improvement Plan Tool Kit

Improvement Plan Tool Kit

This book talks about how 72.9% of the hospitals in the US are using smarter infusion pumps and many organizations have identified them to be safer as they have safety features like an alarm system. The Institute of Medicine has suggested the adoption of smarter infusion pumps as an effective intervention to reduce medication errors. But along with this, this book emphasizes the education of nurses, protocols, and workflows to be an important part of the system to make sure that the implementation of such technologies is successful. Standardization and streamlining of the workflow are important facilitators. All of these reviews were supported by credible studies. This is again helpful for the administration and managerial nurses to recognize the importance of providing protocols, guidelines, and education so the nurses have steps to follow through when working with technology. For example, in a case where nurses are unaware of the workflows with technology, the technology implementation would fail and it would instead become time-consuming because the nurses would spend time figuring out the system.

Implementing Quality & Safety Improvements in Medication Administrations

Hanson, A., & Haddad, L. (2021). Nursing rights of medication administration [E-book]. StatPearls. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK560654/

NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Improvement Plan Tool Kit book identifies the nurse’s responsibility when administering medications to patients. It claims nurses have a standard guideline of instructions to minimize patients’ risks. It bases the instructions on the implementation of five “rights” which includes the sequence of:

• Right Patient
• Right Drug
• Right Route
• Right Time
• Right dose

This makes sure that a correct recipient is identified before prescribing a medication, the right drug is being administered to the patient by making sure the name of the patient and the drug, nurses should be educated about the safe delivery of drugs, drugs should be administered at the right time, and the correct concentration should be given. This resource is helpful for registered nurses, emergency room nurses, and students of nursing as it provides a guideline for the nurses to follow through. Emergency room nurses can highly benefit from this as they would have a checklist of these five rights to quickly double-check when a patient suddenly arrives in the ER needing quick treatment making the chances of error happening to rise. For example, in a case where nurses do not have such protocols to make sure safe medication administration, the nurses might be unsure or feel lost as to if they followed the right track. 

Khalil, H., & Lee, S. (2018). The implementation of a successful medication safety program in primary care. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 24(2), 403–407. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.12870

NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Attempt 1 Improvement Plan Tool Kit

Improving patient safety should be the priority of an organization and for that nurse training has been recognized to be a crucial step to minimizing error. This study was set up to analyze the success of the implementation of the medication safety program in rural Australia. This safety program consists of the implementation of the newly developed medication safety guidelines, delivery of safety training to clinicians, and collection of baseline medication incidents in an organization. The results of this study showed improved knowledge of the clinicians’ and the behavior, confidence, and attitude of the clinicians’ increased significantly. This study consisted of stages that were to communicate, collaborate, and connect.

NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Attempt 1 Improvement Plan Tool Kit shows the importance of such training programs that emphasize the culture of patient safety, identifying the issue and types of medication errors, understanding the medication incident reports, and applying of an evidence-based approach in daily practices. If the clinicians and managing nurses go through this resource, they can highly benefit from this awareness of how training is highly important. Following this, there could be changes in policies to set up workshops to improve the behavior and attitude of the clinicians so there is effective communication and collaboration. In a case where. there was no attention paid to the behavior of the clinicians which resulted in poor communication and commitment, the errors would never be avoided. There will always be a chance of adverse events due to miscommunication or misunderstandings as there would be a lack of transparency.

Melton, K. R., Timmons, K