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Running Head: ENHANCING QUALITY AND SAFETY

NURS FPX4020 Assignment1 A NURS-FPX 4020 Enhancing Quality and Safety: Medication Errors Capella University NURS-FPX4020: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety Enhancing Quality and Safety: Medication Errors Medication administration is a critical process impacting patient care daily. There are many factors affecting medication administration which in turn, leads to administration errors. When a medication administration error occurs, there are effects on patient care, so preventi...

NURS FPX4020 Assessment1 NURS-FPX4020 Enhancing Quality and Safety Capella University Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety NURS-FPX4020 Summary Patient safety is one of the topmost important responsibilities for healthcare professionals worldwide. As healthcare professionals, it is our duty to provide safe and effective care without causing harm. One of the most preventable safety issues are medication errors. According to Pop et al. (2016), "The Institute for Safe Medication ...

NURS-FPX4020 Assessment 1: ENHANCING QUALITY AND SAFETY - Capella University

NURS FPX4020 A NURS-FPX 4020 Enhancing Quality and Safety Capella University NURS-FPX 4020 Enhancing Quality and Safety Introduction Working in the Emergency Department brings a variety of patients that nurses must attend to and treat. But patient safety with regard to medication administration is still the most important task they perform. Medication errors can occur during any step in the writing, dispensing, or administration process. However, nurses are the last step in the process...

Enhancing Quality and Safety Monique Bennett Capella University

Enhancing Quality and Safety Monique Bennett Capella University

Enhancing Quality and Safety Monique Bennett Capella University

NURS FPX4020 Assessment1 NURS-FPX 4020 Enhancing Quality and Safety NURS-FPX4020 Capella University Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety In-patient falls are one of the biggest issues that we face in the hospital today. Patient safety is one of our priorities that we aim for every day. We want to give our patients on every unit safe but quality care. Patient falls are very preventable and are costly to the hospital if it does occur. According to the CDC (2015), there is $50 bi...

Enhancing Quality and Safety NURS-FPX4020 Capella University February 2021/2022 Introduction 1 ENHANCING QUALITY AND SAFETY Patient safety is key to high quality health care. Preventable adverse events in the hospital affect both patient care quality and patient safety. Despite technological advances in the healthcare field, medication errors seem to be increasingly highlighted, despite having advances to prevent such adverse events. Medication errors, both in the home and in a healthc...