How Nurses Can Help Coordinate Care to Increase Patient Safety with Medication Administration and Reduce Costs

Nurses play a role in coordinating care approaches in healthcare. To help coordinate care that enhances patients’ safety, nurses should form healthy partnerships with other healthcare providers such as pharmacists, share valuable patient information that may guide dosing and administration requirements on the patients, and communicate openly and frequently with other members of clinical healthcare teams (Russ-Jara et al., 2021). Frequent and open communication provides a platform for peer consultation and may enable nurses to consult on dosing and route considerations in their patients. Information sharing is integral to coordinative approaches as it enables the establishment of patients and disease factors that may influence treatment plans. These measures optimize medication administration processes and lower medication administration errors that may drive the cost of care higher and have detrimental effects on the patients.