NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Improvement Plan Tool Kit

Improvement Plan Toolkit

The improvement plan toolkit developed in this assessment aims to enhance understanding of the safety improvement plan for reducing patient identification crimes among healthcare staff and the applicable pool. As the Arnold Palmer Hospital has been facing patient identification crimes lately, a safety improvement plan is developed in the former assessment. To better understand this plan, the improvement plan toolkit is designed to comprise disquisition-tested evidence focusing on patient identification crimes and a shaped safety improvement plan.

The toolkit is erected by probing into disquisition papers and drawing applicable papers as evidence-tested practices to help patient misidentification. The four orders fastening on patient identification crimes and safety improvement plans include the significance of patient identification in healthcare, procedures and protocols to enhance patient identification, technology integration and invention, and case-centered approaches for accurate case identification. 

Patient Identification and Its Significance in Healthcare

Rahmawati, T. W., Sari, D. R., Ratri, D. R., & Hasyim, M. (2020). Patient identification in wards: What influences nurses’ compliance? Jurnal Medicoeticolegal Dan Manajemen Rumah Sakit, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.18196/jmmr.92121 

This composition by Rahmawati et al. (2020) highlights patient identification as a critical factor in patient safety. Also, it examines the factors associated with low compliance with patient identification among nurses in inpatient settings. The composition emphasizes the significance of patient identification with two individualities before individual or remedial procedures and before administering specifics and blood transfusions. It also highlights that patient identification is not limited to cuff identifiers.

Still, case and family engagement in treatments by communicating with healthcare professionals should also be encouraged to promote a safety culture by cherishing patient identity. The composition also states some statistics on patient identification crimes; for illustration, it mentions that about 12 near misses in one sanatorium in 2019 passed due to patient identification crimes, showing the non-compliance of nurses with patient identification protocols, procedures, and technologies. 

The root problems that lead to identification crimes among cases linked by authors include lack of education and nurse awareness on patient identification, lack of performance of backhanders for patient identification, late printing of cuff identifiers, and lack of documentation of cases’ lists for registration. These factors have led to low compliance with patient identification among ward nurses. This resource is helpful for nurses to understand patient identification and why patient identification occurs in the first place.

Also, this composition has precious data on factors demanded to promote patient safety by accurate case identification and factors that spark patient misidentification. This composition can be precious for all healthcare and nonclinical staff to understand patient safety, patient identification, and factors contributing to patient identification crimes. 

NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Improvement Plan Tool Kit

Sheedy, C., & Richard, S. (2020). Patient identification errors in the operating room. In Making healthcare safer III: A critical analysis of existing and emerging patient safety practices. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555511/ 

This book chapter discusses patient identification crimes in operating apartments. The study highlights that a review of 106 papers showed that wrong patient practices account for nearly 0.9-1.86 of patient misidentification. The crimes occur during surgery due to communication walls, wristband crimes similar to removed wristbands, or the absence of wristbands. After examining the factors that lead to wrong-case and wrong-point surgeries caused by patient misidentification, the study highlights strategies to enhance patient safety practices by emphasizing proper case identification.

These styles include administering registries and protocols similar to the JC Checklist and the World Health Organization’s canon for safe surgery. Other styles included marking the surgery point among cases with an unforgettable pen to avoid crimes due to patient misidentification. 

Also, the study considered using verification protocols and forms for accurate case identification before surgery. These styles were effective in lowering the rates of surgical crimes due to wrong case identification. This study is useful for nurses to understand how patient identification crimes do in operating departments. Also, healthcare professionals can find this resource precious, as it suggests styles to help surgical crimes due to the misidentification of cases. By administering these practices, healthcare professionals, including surgeons and nurses, can palliate surgical misapprehensions and promote patient safety. 

NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Improvement Plan Tool Kit

Romano, R., Marletta, G., Sollami, A., La Sala, R., Sarli, L., Artioli, G., & Nitro, M. (2021). The safety of care focused on patient identity: An observational study. Acta Bio Medica: Atenei Parmensis, 92(Suppl 2), e2021038. https://doi.org/10.23750/abm.v92iS2.11328 

This composition focuses on patient safety care from the perspective of patient identity. The study was performed to estimate nursing scholars’ knowledge regarding the correct identification of cases. The study showed orchestration in considering the correct case identification protocols applicable within the externship. The study considered cuff identifiers as the most salutary strategy for accurate case identification. This resource is profitable for nurses, as it shows them the patterns of knowledge about case identification among nursing scholars and how colorful styles and strategies can be used, as stated by the composition.

Further, the composition is precious, as it educates nurses on using patient identifiers like irons to help crimes in patient identification. It guides nursing preceptors on ways to ameliorate the station of nursing scholars toward case identification during externship programs. 

Patient Identification Errors

Abraham, P., Augey, L., Duclos, A., Michel, P., & Piriou, V. (2021). Descriptive Analysis of Patient Misidentification From Incident Report System Data in a Large Academic Hospital Federation. Journal of Patient Safety, 17(7), 1. https://doi.org/10.1097/pts.0000000000000478 

The composition by Abraham and associates (2021) analyzes patient identification crimes using incident report systems data. The resource set up colorful factors that contributed to patient misidentification. The most frequent crimes were due to missed wristbands, which accounted for 34 incidents. Other contributing factors were wrong labeling, wrong maps, and executive crimes.

This resource is useful for healthcare staff, including nurses, to gain perceptivity into why patient identification crimes occur and what factors lead to the onset of these crimes. Nurses can use this composition to enhance knowledge of patient identification crimes and further raise mindfulness among nursing staff. This resource is considered precious, as it provides a list of trouble factors causing patient misidentification events in healthcare associations. 

Kulju, S., Morrish, W., King, L., Bender, J., & Gunnar, W. (2020). Case misidentification events in the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of Patient Safety, 19(7). 

https://doi.org/10.1097/pts.0000000000000767 

NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Improvement Plan Tool Kit

The training programs on raising mindfulness about case identification were conducted for the healthcare pool. Nurses can use this resource to understand the conduct and stations of the healthcare pool that neglect case safety. Also, the stations can be avoided by nurses as they learn from the vital findings of this resource. This resource shows its value by briefing out the stations and conduct of the healthcare pool towards patient identification. This study paves the way for the healthcare staff of our sanatorium to avoid similar situations to ameliorate patient safety. 

Procedures and Protocols for Preventing Patient Identification Errors

Campbell, A., Ok, S., Esguerra, J., Luo, D., Ajala, A., Edwards, C., Hilton, S., Khrone, N., Monroe, N., Nichols, J., Porter, R., Simms, D., Smith, L., Puthenparampil, E., & Gonzalez, C. G. (2022). Using a patient identification checklist: How to make this a never safety event in perioperative services. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 37(4), e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2022.05.004 

The composition mentioned above describes the procedure to palliate the frequency of patient identification crimes during perioperative services. For this purpose, a canon is developed, considering the case of wristbands during check-in events, and further checks are conducted to ensure minimal compliance measures. The study created a realistic and attainable goal of promoting patient safety and reducing detriment due to patient identification crimes by 25% in six months. The performance process included developing a canon for patient identification, educating staff, and conducting digital checks. 

Other procedures included placing registries in laminated form for fellows, perfecting lighting to avoid mortal crimes, and allocating alphabetical orders for case map lines to lessen acclimatization to maps. These procedures and protocols helped reduce case identification crimes and enhanced patient safety. This composition is helpful for healthcare professionals and policymakers to produce protocols and registries for reducing patient identification crimes and perfecting the safety of cases. Likewise, this composition is precious, as it provides a regular system of administering the protocols and procedures to enhance patient safety and address case identification crimes. 

NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Improvement Plan Tool Kit

Fukami, T., Uemura, M., Terai, M., Umemura, T., Maeda, M., Ichikawa, M., Sawai, N., Kitano, F., & Nagao, Y. (2020). Intervention efficacy for eliminating patient misidentification using step-by-step problem-solving procedures to improve patient safety. Nagoya Journal of Medical Science, 82(2), 315–321. https://doi.org/10.18999/nagjms.82.2.315

The composition by Fukami and associates (2020) evaluates the effectiveness of reducing patient misidentification by using a step-by-step methodology in which a problem-solving approach was executed. First, the number of patient misidentification incidents was calculated from reports. Next, the factors or reasons that contributed to patient misidentification incidents were linked. The coming step involved setting a target to drop misidentification crimes among cases and achieving this by homogenizing the programs and procedures for accurate case identification. 

The last step was to educate staff members by participating in educational videos on the safe identification of cases and making programs to increase adherence to the case identification protocols. These ways helped the association reduce case misidentification and misapprehensions and achieve the set target. This composition is useful for healthcare staff, showing step-by-step guidelines to apply case identification protocols and programs. Also, healthcare professionals can find this resource precious, as it aims to reduce case identification crimes by establishing SMART pretensions that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound. 

De Rezende, H., Melleiro, M. M., O. Marques, P. A., & Barker, T. H. (2021). Interventions to reduce case identification crimes in the sanatorium setting: A regular review. The Open Nursing Journal, 15(1), 109–121. 

https://doi.org/10.2174/1874434602115010109 

NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Improvement Plan Tool Kit

This evidence-tested resource draws results on interventions from a pool of studies on patient identification interventions. This composition linked a number of interventions to palliate the frequency of patient identification crimes, including educating the staff and enhancing patient engagement with healthcare professionals through education. These educational processes are essential to raise awareness about controlling patient identification crimes to help prevent adverse posterior events.

This resource is useful for healthcare professionals, as they can dissect deeper studies to educate the healthcare staff and cases for accurate case identification. Likewise, this composition explains each intervention alone and with a combination of patient education and technology integration, considering multiple perspectives and their effectiveness. Hence, this composition is precious for all healthcare professionals to foster a safety culture by encouraging correct case identification. 

Technology Integration and Innovation

Riplinger, L., Piera-Jiménez, J., & Dooling, J. P. (2020). Case identification ways—approaches, counteraccusations, and findings. Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 29(1), 81–86

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442501/ 

This composition discusses accurate case identification ways by probing into colorful approaches, including technologies. The technological approaches mooted in this composition are biometric identification systems, radio frequency identification (RFID), and algorithmic approaches within electronic health records (EHRs). The biometric identification system uses fingerprints, iris matching, tone modes, and facial point scanning. RFID is more effective than barcoding technology, as it can store further data and doesn’t bear stoner intervention.

The algorithmic system in EHRs matches health information with a case’s identity and creates an effective case-matching result. This composition is profitable for healthcare staff and administration, as it provides an overview of approaches and counteraccusations to promote patient safety by rightly relating cases. RFID is considered the most precious technology because it requires no user intervention. Healthcare professionals can find all these interventions and technologies precious, as they can potentially reduce patient identification crimes. 

Anne, N., Dunbar, M. D., Abuna, F., Simpson, P., Macharia, P., Betz, B., Cherutich, P., Bukusi, D., & Carey, F. (2020). Feasibility and acceptability of an iris biometric system for unique case identification in routine HIV services in Kenya. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 133, 104006. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.104006 

NURS FPX 4020 Assessment 4 Improvement Plan Tool Kit

This composition highlights the use of iris biometric systems to reduce case identification inaccuracies in covering routine HIV care programs. For this purpose, the authors included the cases and captured the images of the iris for the template. After the template storehouse, an ID number comprising 12 numbers was assigned to each template. Upon every follow-up, the case’s iris was scrutinized against the archived template, and the ID number was recovered consequently. This composition is helpful for healthcare professionals, as it can be a more accurate system to help patient identification crimes.

Nurses can use this template while furnishing care treatments to cases. This strategy was applied in Kenya to overcome inaccuracies due to patient identification crimes. This resource is precious for Arnold Palmer Hospital healthcare professionals, as it provides a thorough system to integrate innovative biometric technology systems, similar to iris scanning of cases’ eyes. 

Barakat, S., & Franklin, B. D. (2020). An evaluation of the impact of barcode case and medicine scanning on nursing workflow at a UK training sanatorium. Apothecary, 8(3), 148. 

https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8030148 

This confirmation-tested resource evaluates the impact of case and drug scanning via barcode technology in training hospitals in the UK. The study showed that patient identification checks were 100% acquired through this technology. This process involves the scanning of the case’s wristband barcodes with that of the drug before the drug administration. This technology enhanced patient safety by adding the scanning rates among cases. Nurses can use this resource to apply this technology for patient identification before administering specifics. 

This resource is precious, as it delves into BCMA technology for precluding drug crimes due to patient misidentification. Also, this resource will guide nurses on the tools demanded for administering BCMA technology for patient identification as well as drug safety. By using this precious resource, healthcare professionals can give advanced quality of care by reducing the trouble of patient identification crimes by surveying case individualities before administering drugs. 

Conclusion

The improvement plan toolkit is developed by using four orders engaging on patient identification crimes and patient safety. These orders revolve around case identification and its significance in healthcare, patient identification crimes, procedures and protocols for preventing patient identification crimes, and technology integration and invention. For each order, three evidence-tested resources are drawn from a plethora of evidence-tested disquisition data. This toolkit aims to help healthcare professionals in easing patient misidentification rates by enhancing their understanding of this subject and safety interventions.