[Solved] NR544 Week 3: Quality Improvement Model Application

COURSE:

 NR544: Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Requirements

Assignment Criteria for the Paper

  1. Identify any existing quality concern or an existing patient safety issue and provide the rationale for choosing this issue.
  2. Explain the background and scope of the problem.
  3. Analyze the issue based on the appropriate quality philosophy.
  4. Identify the regulatory guidelines, internal and/or external benchmarks, or evidence-based practice standards surrounding the issue—explain what that expectation is and why.
  5. Use the appropriate quality improvement tools to improve the quality outcome.
  6. Describe how you could or will get involved in this initiative to make a difference and move it forward to enactment.
  7. Summarize the content in concluding statements.
  8. The body of the scholarly paper is to be 3–5 pages in length, excluding title and reference pages.
  9. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, references, and citations are consistent with formal academic writing and APA format as expressed in the current edition.
  10. Include a minimum of four references published within the past 5 years, not including your textbook. References may include scholarly websites of organizations or government agencies and must be presented using APA current edition format for electronic media.

 

SOLUTION

Medication Administration Errors

Medication Administration Errors (MAEs) are one of the significant patient safety issues. Medication errors occur in different ways, i.e., during prescribing, dispensing, and administration. Over 30% of errors occur at the time of medication administration (H0 & Burger, 2020). MAE has several impacts on both patients and the hospital. For example, mortality, adverse drug effects, morbidity, and might even increase the length of stay. Improper administration of medication also increases costs for healthcare care facilities. This paper will discuss how MAE affects patients, healthcare workers, and the healthcare organization. How MAE is a patient safety concern utilizing a quality philosophy, identify current evidence-based practice standards surrounding MAE ad regulatory guidelines, goals of improvement, and interventions and quality improvement tools that can be used to eradicate the MAE.

Background and Scope of Problem

Unsafe medication practices are the leading causes of MAE in healthcare systems. Medication errors occur in different ways, i.e., during prescribing, dispensing, and administration. Over 30% of errors occur at the time of medication administration (H0 & Burger, 2020). Most MAEs occur when one has failed to……………………………………..$15