Roles of Interprofessional Team Members Capella 4020 Assessment 3

As discussed earlier, nurses are a pivotal group of people because of their jobs’ frontline nature. They are the ones who are responsible for these errors and only they can improve their practices to ensure quality and safe care is provided. Nurses can do this by following organizational and international guidelines, remaining up-to-date with the healthcare trends, being involved in training and development programs, and ensuring effective reporting of these errors if identified.

Capella 4020 Assessment 3

Nurse leaders are responsible to conduct training for their staff, constantly encouraging safe medication practices within the workplace, and ensuring that every individual practicing medication is credentialed for this healthcare practice. Moreover, they should create a supportive and kind environment for their staff to appropriately report errors and improve their practices without any being troubled. Policymakers should develop specific organizational policies against medication negligence for example zero-tolerance policy and should reprimand the staff if found committing errors. Moreover, they must develop an incidence reporting system together with the hospital’s administration to ensure effective reporting takes place.

QI auditors play an important part related to reporting where they should be checking and monitoring the record every week to ensure the effectiveness of the reporting system by taking appropriate measures. They should also audit staff about the safe medication practices knowledge to have an idea of more training required. Moreover, they must obtain data from patients about their satisfaction levels related to medication safety practices.  This interprofessional team’s participation and the development of an improvement plan enables nurses and other healthcare professionals to perform their healthcare practices effectively thus creating a safe, reliable, and trustworthy environment for patients and their families. 

Activity and Educational Resources

We are at the end of our in-service training session. You can ask questions now before we do a small activity to ensure that whatever we have learned today, we will incorporate 

into our practices. 

In the end, participants of the session will develop some educational resources (pamphlets, worksheets, puzzles, charts, etc.) to demonstrate their learnings. These educational resources will be utilized for future sessions and for spreading awareness among other colleagues to ensure safe medication practices are followed by all healthcare professionals. 

Conclusion

I would like to conclude my presentation by reviewing the objectives that we achieved today. We discussed medication administration errors, their prevalence, and the poor consequences which are resulted from these errors. We identified the need for a safety improvement plan and suggested some evidence-based strategies to overcome these challenges. These strategies are the development of a reporting system, training, and education, medication reconciliation, elimination of disruptions, and double-checking practices.

Moreover, we discussed the roles of various stakeholders in forming an interprofessional team. In the end, some of the resources were developed by you all and some were provided by me which can be used for the future session and to spread knowledge among other co-workers

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