Safety Improvement Plan Overview of Current Problem and Proposed Plan NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 3 Improvement Plan in Service Presentation

NURS4020 Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety

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Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation

Hello everyone; I am ___, and today, I will discuss the safety improvement plan in this in-service presentation. First, I appreciate the participation of all these nurses who play a massive role in Tampa General Hospital by providing care treatments to patients day and night. However, we all know our hospital lags in providing adequate safety through care treatments, and we encounter numerous medication errors. To alleviate the incidence of these errors and enhance the safety of our patients, I will present a safety improvement plan to you all, encouraging you to improve your performance. I will first discuss the agenda of this presentation with you all.

Agenda and Outcomes

This presentation will entail the following content:

• Purpose and goals of this in-service presentation session
• Safety improvement plan
• Role of audience in the implementation of the plan
• New processes and skills development and understanding

By discussing these points, nurses can implement the safety improvement plan. This will enhance patient safety, reduce healthcare costs to patients and the system, improve work efficiency, and promote the hospital’s reputation. Now, let us begin discussing each point in detail. Please park your questions till the end, when we will conduct a question-answer session.

Purpose and Goals of In-Service Presentation Session

This in-service presentation session aims to mitigate the number of medication administration errors in our hospital lately. Medication administration errors are preventable adverse events that must be avoided in healthcare. Hospitals aim to improve patients’ conditions, and nurses must deliver quality care that satisfies patients’ health needs without aggravating their disease progressions. The goals of this presentation are as follows:

NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 3 Improvement Plan in Service Presentation

• Adequate Knowledge of Identifying Medication Errors: Our goal is to equip our nurses with sufficient knowledge of medication and medication administration technologies. This will enable them to identify medication errors due to dosage miscalculations, incorrect medication administration techniques, and glitches in technologies that dispense the wrong medication.
• Adherence to Medication Administration Protocols: Another goal is to enable nurses to implement medication administration protocols to minimize medication errors due to wrong medication, wrong patient, and wrong route of administration by double-checking processes, verification systems, and medical reconciliation.
• Education on the Proper Use of Healthcare Information Technology:  Nurses will be educated on the correct use of healthcare technologies for medication administration, such as automated dispensing systems and barcode medication administration. This will ensure safe medication management through the effective and correct use of these technologies.
• Compliance with Regulatory Standards and Hospital Policies: This session aims to raise awareness of the importance of complying with medication administration regulations and hospital policies. This will potentiate fulfilling our desired objective, i.e., reducing medication errors and enhancing patient safety.

Safety Improvement Plan

Overview of Current Problem and Proposed Plan

The medication administration errors at TGH mainly occur for various reasons. The primary causes include nurses’ competencies in meeting the medication administration standards, such as double-checking the medications, following the five rights of medication administration, lack of maintenance of automated dispensing systems, and negligence towards identifying medication errors due to non-serious attitudes. Therefore, the proposed safety improvement plan is made in such a way that it addresses these causes of medication administration errors.

The proposed safety improvement plan comprises training and educational programs for nurses to promote safe medication administration, revising the hospital’s SOPs for nurses, including developing policies on mindful medication administration and integrating BCMA technology and its practical use. The training session for nurses will enlighten their knowledge of accurate medication administration (Manias et al., 2021). The nurses will administer medication mindfully, applying the principles of safe medication delivery and ignoring external interruptions (Yang et al., 2022). Moreo