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.