NUR 3561 – Deliverable 1 – Strategies to Promote a Culture of Excellence in the Workplace
Why do we need this change?
Within all healthcare settings, patients deserve care that is centered on their unique needs, not what is most convenient at the time. A transformed healthcare system is required to achieve this goal. Implementation of a barcode system for medication retrieval helps improve patient safety by decreasing the overall rate of adverse drug events and the rate of transcription errors. Having this technology also reduces the harmful impacts on patients that are caused by administration errors (Truitt et al., 2016). Using the new barcode administration also allows for improved communication between nurses and pharmacists, reducing transcription errors.
What we currently use works well. Why change now?
Within the healthcare field, technology is always changing. To be able to provide effective patient care and improve quality and safety, we learn to adapt and change along with it. With the current medication retrieval system, nurses are getting patient medications from a central dispensing area and then returning to the bedside. Using the new system where nurses retrieve medications at the bedside allows for concerns and questions to be addressed that the client or family members may have. This also creates an opportunity for these concerns to be addressed with a pharmacist.
Honestly, as a nurse, how will this new piece of equipment help me better perform my professional role?
The best practice nurses can obtain is adapting to changing situations. As technology changes, how we practice nursing changes as well. Using the barcode scanners along with the bedside medication administration allows for the Five Rights of medication administration to be maintained and even decreases the risk of errors being made within these rights (Wideman et al., 2005). Nurses have the opportunity to contribute to innovations and create better care for patients. Using this new technology allows for safer medication administration, staying on time with medications, and the ability to provide accurate information and education, all create better performances within the professional role of nursing.
References
Truitt, E., Thompson, R., Blazey-Martin, D., NiSai, D., & Salem, D. (2016, June). Effect of the Implementation of Barcode Technology and an Electronic Medication Administration Record on Adverse Drug Events. Retrieved April 7, 2020, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4911988/
Wideman, M. V. (2005, February). Barcode Medication Administration: Lessons Learned from an Intensive Care Unit Implementation. Retrieved April 7, 2020, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK20569/
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NUR 3561 – Deliverable 1 – Strategies to Promote a Culture of Excellence in the Workplace
Describe a culture of excellence in nursing.