Write an executive summary, 4-5 pages in length, of existing outcome measures related to a performance issue uncovered in your gap analysis that you intend to address.
Introduction
RUBRIC
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and systems perspective.
Explain key quality and safety outcomes.
Analyze the relationships between a systemic problem in an organization and specific quality and safety outcomes.
Competency 2: Determine how outcome measures promote quality and safety processes within an organization.
Determine how specific outcome measures support strategic initiatives related to a quality and safety culture.
Competency 3: Determine how specific organizational functions, policies, processes, procedures, norms, and behaviors can be used to build reliability and high-performing organizations.
Determine the strategic value to an organization of specific outcome measures.
Competency 4: Synthesize the various aspects of the nurse leader’s role in developing, promoting, and sustaining a culture of quality and safety.
Determine how a leadership team would support the implementation and adoption of proposed practice changes affecting specific outcomes.
Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.
Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.Running Head: MEDICATION ERRORS 1
Executive Summary- Medication Errors
Kathryn Forsyth
Capella University
HealthCare Quality Safety Management
July, 2020
Proprietary
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MEDICATION ERRORS 2
Executive Summary- Medication Errors
Medication administration continues to be an issue, from start to finish, errors can occur.
The bedside nurse if responsible for about a quarter of medicine errors as they happen during the
administration phase (Armstrong et al, 2017). Medication administration is a multistep process
that requires clinical judgements, professional care, and analytical thinking. Medication
administration often happen is a busy environment, nurses must be able to manage multitasking
while upholding patient safety and clinical skill (Armstrong et al, 2017). Currently medication
errors are under reported, researched, and recognized and this needs to be addressed.
A Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force was created by the Department of Health
and Human Services and other federal agencies has advised using teamwork is an important way
to improve patient safety (Buljac-Samardzic, Dekker-van Doorn, & Maynard, 2018). Factors to
address when developing a plan to reduce medication errors include increasing reporting without
punishment, when and where did the error occur, and how many changes did the staff have to
prevent the error. Creating quality initiatives, improvement strategies, new policies and
procedures are ways to decrease medication errors. Administration and leadership should use
each near miss and adverse event as a teaching opportunity with the staff and determine how the
error can be prevented in the future.
Many healthcare organizations have banded together to research ways to decrease
medication errors. Nurse education is an ongoing process as there are new medications with look
alike, sound alike names. Understanding the cause of medication errors will improve the nurse’s
knowledge and provide nurses the ability to learn from mistakes. About 5% of medication
adverse events are related to a lack of nurse knowledge related to the medication (Patient Safety
Network, 2019). Nurses should always look up information on any drug they are unfamiliar with
and be encouraged to ask questions to try to reduce these events. Use of technology has also
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MEDICATION ERRORS 3
decrease medication errors by using the barcode to scan the patient arm band· Write an executive summary, 4-5 pages in length, of existing outcome measures related to a performance issue uncovered in your gap analysis that you intend to address.
Introduction
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
As a nurse leader, you must be able to access, identify, and describe outcome measures as they relate to safety and quality problems in your organization.
This assessment provides an opportunity to examine existing outcome measures, assess their strategic value, and present your findings to executive leaders in a manner that will help you gain their support.
Quality and safety are everyone’s responsibility as a team of interprofessional care delivery partners. Together we develop policies that support quality and safe care delivery. As part of the interprofessional team, nurses are leaders in care and thus are responsible and accountable for leading and providing safe quality care.
Health care delivery is structured around evidenced-based information. Quality is defined by exploring proven, evidenced-based information. After reviewing and defining evidenced-based information, the interprofessional team applies this knowledge to assess the organization’s or the practice setting’s ability to provide evidenced-based care delivery. When a gap in care is identified, it is important to propose an evidenced-based change and to execute a plan for improved care.
Your summary of relevant outcome measures is based on your findings from the quality and safety gap analysis you completed in the previous assessment.
Preparation
Your analysis of the gap between current and desired performance was the first step toward improving outcomes. You now have the information you need to move forward with proposed changes. Your next step is to focus on existing outcome measures and their relationship to the systemic problem you are addressing. For this assessment, you have been asked to draft a summary of existing outcome measures for your organization’s executive team to raise awareness of the problem and the strategic value of existing measures.
Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s
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As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
Building stakeholder support is crucial to fostering and sustaining change. Therefore, as you approach this assessment, think about the stakeholders wh
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