Safety Improvement Plan: The Need and Process to Improve Safety Outcomes Need of the Safety Improvement Plan NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 3 Improvement Plan in Service Presentation

Second, there may be legal consequences associated with errors in identification and this puts our reputation as an organization into jeopardy (Popescu et al., 2022). Moreover, there is evidence that through the reduction of error rates and improving the quality of healthcare at large healthcare facilities, programs designed to improve patient identification systems might enhance safety outcomes.

Because of this, the healthcare organization must react by taking measures in order to address wrong patient identifications and developing a well-structured Safety Improvement Plan (Afaya et al., 2021). This way, we will ensure that we are providing our patients with the best possible care that will keep our promise to secure customers and protect the good name and reputation of our business among medical practitioners.

Process of the Safety Improvement Plan

The suggested approach seeks to address this issue by implementing evidence-based tactics that will improve patient identification procedures and lower the number of errors that occur. Additionally, there are various elements that include but not limited to; uniformity of procedures for the identification of patients, utilization of technologies such as use of bar-coding techniques, staff training, providing a secure environment and improvement in communication skills.

Consequently, we expect some of these interventions to address causal factors behind introduction errors such as lack of confirmation stages, job delivery burden among other items which are accidentally connected with human fatigue and cognitive disability (Riplinger et al., 2020). The healthcare organization requires addressing the present scenario for several valid reasons.

Audience’s Role and Importance

Keeping the junior nurses, who are supposed to be the recipients of the plan on track will make sure that all endeavors made to enhance patient safety and mend the vital problem of patient misidentification errors succeed. Their regular interactions with patients as well as adherence to laid out policies are instrumental in appropriately identifying patients and providing safe care (Adane et al., 2019). Recognizing one’s role in this plan is not only important but also an opportunity for growth both professionally and personally since it aids in delivery of high-quality health care (Ahmed et al., 2023).

In this respect, nurses are required to be proactive in the implementation of standardized patient identification processes, effective use of technology, continuous training and education programs as well as enhance team based safety and communication. Consequently, they will have an opportunity to efficiently control these measures in order to decrease the number of patients’ misidentification cases and hence improve safety outcomes.

Employees must adhere to the improvement strategy and actively participate in it (Vaismoradi et al., 2020). They should be on alert and attentive while dealing with patients so as to avoid errors or properly identifying them. Additionally, a sense of ownership about safety through accepting one’s place in a plan builds a culture of ongoing improvement within the health delivery system (Cosolo et al., 2023).

Rich personal and professional benefits increase for staff who actively take part in the improvement schedule as well as helping their organization enhance patient safety in line with its wider goals. Just accepting a position in it, on the other hand, makes one feel gratified, happy or even fulfilled because it is a way of bringing positive changes to people’s lives thus promoting job satisfaction. Second, they will be able to cut down on errors and increase efficiency by adhering to existing practices and employing new technologies at workstations (Ren et al., 2022).

New Process and Skills Practice: Resources or Activities

Patients’ identification techniques should be standardized because such a new approach can lead to mistakes in patient identification. These include but not limited to; barcoding systems, electronic health records (EHRs), using two positive patient identifiers and a culture of open communication and collaboration between healthcare professionals (Khubone et al., 2020).

Nurses need to have the ability of using technology correctly, following standard protocols, and maintaining open communication so as to ensure accurate patient identification and improve safety outcomes. Regular updates on these skills are necessary for reducing errors as well as creating an environment that promotes patient safety within the organization (Lahti et al., 2022).

Activity: Patient Identification Simulation Exercise

I will develop a simulation scenario where employees would face several