Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal
Build on the work done in your first three assessments and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help the audience of your in-service understand the research behind your safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration and put the plan into action.
Instructions
Using Google Sites, assemble an online resource tool kit containing at least 12 annotated resources that you consider critical to the success of your safety improvement initiative. These resources should enable nurses and others to implement and maintain the safety improvement you have developed.
It is recommended that you focus on the 3 or 4 most critical categories or themes with respect to your safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration. For example, for an initiative that concerns improving workplace safety for practitioners, you might choose broad themes such as general organizational safety and quality best practices; environmental safety and quality risks; individual strategies to improve personal and team safety; and process best practices for reporting and improving environmental safety issues.
Following the recommended scheme, you would collect 3 resources on average for each of the 4 categories focusing on safety with medication administration. Each resource listing should include the following:
An APA-formatted citation of the resource with a working link.
A description of the information, skills, or tools provided by the resource.
A brief explanation of how the resource can help nurses better understand or implement the safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
A description of how nurses can use this resource and when its use may be appropriate.
Remember that you must make your site “public” so that your faculty can access it. Check out the Google Sites resources for more information.
Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and continued sustainability of a safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
Analyze the usefulness of resources to the role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements focusing on medication administration.
Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk related to medication administration.
Present compelling reasons and relevant situations for use of resource tool kit by its target audience.
Communicate in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting.
Example Assessment: You may use the following example to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration. Note that you do not have to submit your bibliography in addition to the Google Site; the example bibliography is merely for your reference.
Example Google Site: You may use the example Google Site, Resources for Safety and Improvement Measures in Geropsychiatric Care, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like for this assessment but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration.
Sample Answer
Improvement Plan Toolkit
This improvement plan toolkit aims to help nurses to improve medication administration and avoid medication administration errors in a healthcare facility. The toolkit is organized into four categories, with each category having three sources. These categories include general organizational safety and quality best practices, environmental safety and quality risks, individual strategies to improve personal and team safety, and process best practices for reporting and improving environmental safety issues.
General Organizational Safety and Quality Best Practices
Smeulers, M., Verweij, L., Maaskant, J. M., de Boer, M., Krediet, C. T. P., Nieveen Van
Dijkum, E. J. M., & Vermeulen, H. (2015). Quality Indicators for Safe Medication Preparation and Administration: A Systematic Review. PLOS ONE, 10(4), e0122695. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122695
This systematic review highlights that nearly 25% of all medication errors that occur in healthcare facilities Occur during the administration phase and the medication preparation phase, which is a nursing activity. Nurses are therefore responsible for nearly a third of the medication errors that occur in healthcare facilities. The use of evidence-based quality indicators can therefore go a long way in helping nurses to evaluate, improve and monitor the safety of medication administration in healthcare facilities. According to Smeulers et al. (2015), there are different quality indicators that can help to enhance medication safety. These include structure indicators such as high alert medication and safety management, safety indicators such as protocols, and verification outcome indicators such as death or harm. The different quality indicators that can be employed in the administration of medication cover all the rights of patients. Nurses can therefore utilize the highlighted quality indicators as an excellent starting point to develop and come up with nursing-specific quality indicators to enhance medication safety in a healthcare facility. Nurses can therefore utilize Smeulers et al., (2015) article to come up with a safe medication administration plan that considers the right patient, right documentation, right time, and right route.
Yousef, N., & Yousef, F. (2017). Using total quality management approach to improve patient
safety by preventing medication error incidences**. BMC Health Services Research, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2531-6
This study highlights that one of the predominant causes of medication errors is drug administration errors. Drug administration errors can therefore be eliminated in healthcare settings through the use of a total quality management approach such as the Six Sigma approach. The Six Sigma approach, therefore, plays a significant role in reducing medication errors and ensuring that such medication errors are reduced significantly. According to Yousef & Yousef (2017), simple strategies such as encouraging nurses to make clearer handwritten prescriptions and improving the health of healthcare professionals can go a long way in reducing medication errors. The Six Sigma approach, which includes defining, measuring, analyzing, implementing, and controlling, is one of the approaches that can be used to determine the real reasons behind medication errors in a healthcare facility. Using the Six Sigma approach, the main cause of medication errors in a healthcare facility, therefore, includes administration mistakes, and prescription mistakes, especially because of poorly handwritten prescriptions. The use of guideline recommendations such as providing clear handwritten prescriptions and improving healthcare professional education can play a significant role in helping nurses to better understand and implement effective safety initiatives related to medication administration. Nurses can utilize the Yousef & Yousef (2017) article to determine the cause of medication errors in their healthcare facilities and the Six Sigma approach to come up with effective steps of mitigating such changes.
Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal
Build on the work done in your first three assessments and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help the audience of your in-service understand the research behind your safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration and put the plan into action.
Instructions
Using Google Sites, assemble an online resource tool kit containing at least 12 annotated resources that you consider critical to the success of your safety improvement initiative. These resources should enable nurses and others to implement and maintain the safety improvement you have developed.
It is recommended that you focus on the 3 or 4 most critical categories or themes with respect to your safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration. For example, for an initiative that concerns improving workplace safety for practitioners, you might choose broad themes such as general organizational safety and quality best practices; environmental safety and quality risks; individual strategies to improve personal and team safety; and process best practices for reporting and improving environmental safety issues.
Following the recommended scheme, you would collect 3 resources on average for each of the 4 categories focusing on safety with medication administration. Each resource listing should include the following:
An APA-formatted citation of the resource with a working link.
A description of the information, skills, or tools provided by the resource.
A brief explanation of how the resource can help nurses better understand or implement the safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
A description of how nurses can use this resource and when its use may be appropriate.
Remember that you must make your site “public” so that your faculty can access it. Check out the Google Sites resources for more information.
Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and continued sustainability of a safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
Analyze the usefulness of resources to the role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements focusing on medication administration.
Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk related to medication administration.
Present compelling reasons and relevant situations for use of resource tool kit by its target audience.
Communicate in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting.
Example Assessment: You may use the following example to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration. Note that you do not have to submit your bibliography in addition to the Google Site; the example bibliography is merely for your reference.
Example Google Site: You may use the example Google Site, Resources for Safety and Improvement Measures in Geropsychiatric Care, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like for this assessment but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration.
Sample Answer
Improvement Plan Toolkit
This improvement plan toolkit aims to help nurses to improve medication administration and avoid medication administration errors in a healthcare facility. The toolkit is organized into four categories, with each category having three sources. These categories include general organizational safety and quality best practices, environmental safety and quality risks, individual strategies to improve personal and team safety, and process best practices for reporting and improving environmental safety issues.
General Organizational Safety and Quality Best Practices
Smeulers, M., Verweij, L., Maaskant, J. M., de Boer, M., Krediet, C. T. P., Nieveen Van
Dijkum, E. J. M., & Vermeulen, H. (2015). Quality Indicators for Safe Medication Preparation and Administration: A Systematic Review. PLOS ONE, 10(4), e0122695. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122695
This systematic review highlights that nearly 25% of all medication errors that occur in healthcare facilities Occur during the administration phase and the medication preparation phase, which is a nursing activity. Nurses are therefore responsible for nearly a third of the medication errors that occur in healthcare facilities. The use of evidence-based quality indicators can therefore go a long way in helping nurses to evaluate, improve and monitor the safety of medication administration in healthcare facilities. According to Smeulers et al. (2015), there are different quality indicators that can help to enhance medication safety. These include structure indicators such as high alert medication and safety management, safety indicators such as protocols, and verification outcome indicators such as death or harm. The different quality indicators that can be employed in the administration of medication cover all the rights of patients. Nurses can therefore utilize the highlighted quality indicators as an excellent starting point to develop and come up with nursing-specific quality indicators to enhance medication safety in a healthcare facility. Nurses can therefore utilize Smeulers et al., (2015) article to come up with a safe medication administration plan that considers the right patient, right documentation, right time, and right route.
Yousef, N., & Yousef, F. (2017). Using total quality management approach to improve patient
safety by preventing medication error incidences**. BMC Health Services Research, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2531-6
This study highlights that one of the predominant causes of medication errors is drug administration errors. Drug administration errors can therefore be eliminated in healthcare settings through the use of a total quality management approach such as the Six Sigma approach. The Six Sigma approach, therefore, plays a significant role in reducing medication errors and ensuring that such medication errors are reduced significantly. According to Yousef & Yousef (2017), simple strategies such as encouraging nurses to make clearer handwritten prescriptions and improving the health of healthcare professionals can go a long way in reducing medication errors. The Six Sigma approach, which includes defining, measuring, analyzing, implementing, and controlling, is one of the approaches that can be used to determine the real reasons behind medication errors in a healthcare facility. Using the Six Sigma approach, the main cause of medication errors in a healthcare facility, therefore, includes administration mistakes, and prescription mistakes, especially because of poorly handwritten prescriptions. The use of guideline recommendations such as providing clear handwritten prescriptions and improving healthcare professional education can play a significant role in helping nurses to better understand and implement effective safety initiatives related to medication administration. Nurses can utilize the Yousef & Yousef (2017) article to determine the cause of medication errors in their healthcare facilities and the Six Sigma approach to come up with effective steps of mitigating such changes.
