Nurs 4020 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

The purpose of this assessment is to demonstrate your understanding of and ability to analyze a root cause of a specific safety concern in a health care setting. You will create a plan to improve the safety of patients related to the concern of medication administration safety based on the results of your analysis, using the literature and professional best practices as well as the existing resources at your chosen health care setting to provide a rationale for your plan. Use the Root-Cause Ana...

NURS FPX4020 Assessment1 NURS-FPX 4020 Enhancing Quality and Safety Capella University NURS-FPX 4020: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety Enhancing Quality and Safety Medication errors are a growing concern in healthcare as they can lead to emotional and physical pain or death. The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention defines a medication error as: €œany preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patie...

NURS FPX4020 Assessment1 NURS-FPX 4020 Exploring Errors of Medication, Safety, Costs, and Stakeholder Involvement Capella University NURS-FPX4020: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety Exploring Errors of Medication, Safety, Costs, and Stakeholder Involvement Patients can be at risk for errors to occur during any medical treatment. Errors can happen for many reasons, including human error or faulty equipment. This paper will focus on patient safety risks and medication errors. An ...

NURS FPX4020 Assessment4 Improvement Plan Tool Kit 1 NURS-FPX 4020 Improvement Plan Tool Kit Capella University Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety Medication Administration Improvement Plan Medication administration error (MAE) continues to affect the delivery of care, patient safety, and quality of care. The intent of this improvement plan is to influe...

NURS FPX4020 Assessment2 NURS-FPX 4020 Root-Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement Plan NURS-FPX4020 Capella University Introduction A root-cause analysis is the process of discovering the root causes of a problem or issue in order to identify appropriate solutions (Root Cause Analysis, 2021). This root-cause analysis will be examining the medication error that occurred during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic at an urban hospital in New Jersey where I work. During this time, the nurses wer...

NURS FPX4020 Assessment1 NURS-FPX 4020 Enhancing Quality and Safety Capella University NURS-FPX4020 Medication Errors Patient safety is one of the top priorities for every healthcare organization. One of the oaths every single registered nurse vows to keep is to œdo no harm. This is exactly one of the reasons why nurses are still the number one trusted profession. With that being said, medication errors are one of the key areas of patient safety that needs to be discussed in order to...

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...

• HESI ONLINE NCLX RN PRE-TEST QUESTIONS • NURS 4020WINTER CLINICAL 2. A nurse is evaluating outcomes for a client with Guillain-Barré syndrome. Which of the following outcomes does the nurse recognize as optimal respiratory outcomes for the client? Select all that apply. A. Normal deep tendon reflexes B. Improved skeletal muscle tone C. Absence of paresthesias in the lower extremities D. Clear sounds in the lower lung fields bilaterally E. pO2 of 85 mm Hg and Pco2 of 40 mm Hg...