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NURS FPX4020 Assessment2 (1 NURS-FPX 4020 Root-Cause Analysis and Improvement Plan Capella University Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety NURS-FPX4020 Root-Cause Analysis and Improvement Plan A root-cause analysis on medication errors was performed on an observation floor in a busy city hospital. œA medication error is a preventable adverse effect of a patient taking the wrong medication or dosage, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. Medication errors can...

NURS FPX4020 Asessment3 NURS-FPX 4020 Speaker Notes for Powerpoint Capella University NURS-FPX4020: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety Speaker Notes for PowerPoint Slide One Hello everyone and welcome to Medication Awareness and Safety. Slide Two We all as practitioners, whether doctors or nurses, have taken a form of the Hippocratic oath as to do no harm to any patient. This is €œthe fundamental ethical principle of healthcare is to do no harm, a principle that Floren...

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...

NURS FPX4020 Assignment2 A NURS-FPX 4020 Root-Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement Plan NURS-FPX4020 Capella University Root-Cause Analysis Medication administration is a high-risk nursing procedure. There is a chance for medication administration errors throughout every medication pass. At a small hospital outside of Philadelphia, failure to document and communicate a proper shift hand-off led to the error of double administering high dose warfarin. Both the dayshift and nightshift nur...

NURS FPX4020 Assignment4 A NURS-FPX 4020 Annotated Bibliography NURS-FPX4020 Capella University Annotated Bibliography Asaad Assiri, G., Atef Shebl, N., Adam Mahmoud, M., Aloudah, N., Grant, E., Aljadhey, H., & Sheikh, A. (2018). What is the epidemiology of medication errors, error-related adverse events and risk factors for errors in adults managed in community care contexts? A systematic review of the international literature. BMJ Open, 8, 1-30. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017- o This study a...

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...

NURS FPX4020 Assessment1 (1 NURS-FPX 4020 Enhancing Quality and Safety NURS-FPX4020 Capella University Abstract The purpose of this paper is to address safety issues regarding medication administration errors and what steps nurses can take to prevent these errors and enhance patient safety. There are several types of med errors such as, administering medications at the wrong time, using the wrong technique, missing a dose, administering to a wrong patient, following verbal orders of a p...

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NURS FPX4020 Assessment2 1 NURS-FPX 4020 Root-Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement Plan Capella University NURS-FPX 4020: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety Root-Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement Plan Root-cause analysis (RCA) is an error analysis tool used to train healthcare staff to identify factors that lead to error and suggest solutions to prevent similar errors from causing harm in the future (Miller, 2018). An RCA of medication errors due a hospital s transition ...

NURS FPX4020 . 1 NURS-FPX 4020 Enhancing Quality and Safety Capella University Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety Enhancing Quality and Safety Enhancing Quality and Safety Medication errors are the most common medical errors and can potentially cause detrimental effects to patients as well as increase hospital costs. In this paper, I will discuss a current issue in clinical practice that is a medication administration safety risk and will identify quality improvement initiativ...