This stakeholder presentation outlines an interdisciplinary plan to reduce medication errors at Tampa General Hospital and improve patient safety, quality of care, and organizational outcomes. Medication errors are a significant and preventable healthcare issue that negatively impact patient health, trust, and satisfaction. The presentation highlights the importance of addressing communication gaps and system inefficiencies that contribute to these errors, emphasizing the need for a structured, technology-based solution.
The proposed plan focuses on integrating Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to enhance medication safety through features such as automated alerts, medication reconciliation, real-time updates, and drug interaction checks. The implementation strategy follows the PDSA (Plan–Do–Study–Act) cycle to ensure continuous improvement and effective system integration. An interdisciplinary team—including hospital leadership, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, IT specialists, and nurse informaticists—will collaborate to support training, workflow redesign, and system optimization. Success will be evaluated by measuring reductions in medication error rates, improved patient satisfaction, enhanced staff performance, and decreased hospital length of stay. This evidence-based approach promotes sustainable change, improved collaboration, and long-term improvements in patient care outcomes.
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Hello everyone, I’m —, and I’m working as a nanny at Tampa General Hospital. At this moment, I will deliver my donation to my stakeholder group, which includes the sanatorium administration and healthcare professionals analogous to croakers, apothecaries, IT specialists, and babysitters. Let’s bandy the program for a moment.
The following outlines will be mooted in this donation.
The specific organizational issue our sanatorium is facing is the increasing rates of drug-related crimes. Medicine crimes do occur regularly due to poor communication and collaboration among healthcare professionals and the ineffectiveness of drug safety programs. The staff needs help to conduct effective interdisciplinary platoon collaboration. All these factors affect drug crimes, eventually impacting patient safety and experience. Medicine crimes are a global healthcare issue causing adverse health and fiscal counteraccusations (Souza et al., 2019).
Medicine crimes are preventable negative incidents that can harm cases due to incongruous drug use. Annually, roughly 237 million drug crimes occur, of which 68 million are clinically significant. Roughly 50-70.2% of crimes can be avoided by administering safe drug operation strategies (World Health Organization, 2022).
The community should pay attention to addressing this association’s issue, as it directly impacts patient safety and individual well-being. Medicine crimes contribute to fresh treatment conditions due to patient detriment. By preventing these crimes, the safety of cases is enhanced, and the trouble of adverse responses can be minimized (Di Muzio et al., 2019). Working medicine crimes can boost the quality of care handed to cases, as they have a right to acquire safe care treatments and palliate their affections without further worsening their health conditions due to these crimes (Tawfik et al., 2019).
A high frequency of medicine crimes erodes cases’ trust in healthcare. Precluding medicine crimes can strengthen persuasions and foster positive connections with healthcare professionals (Prentice et al., 2020). Firstly, the legal consequences and action can be prevented by complying with ethical morals and legal scopes of care treatments (Liu et al., 2020). Without addressing medicine crimes, patient detriment can lead to death, legal consequences, and eroded trust in healthcare professionals.
The interdisciplinary team strategy is particularly applicable to address the issue of medicine crimes in several ways. Most medicine crimes do occur due to poor collaboration and communication among healthcare professionals, conducting interdisciplinary team meetings, or using technology to grease communication among staff. This will help medicine crimes and promote patient safety. Interprofessional team members can identify the root causes and conduct comprehensive trouble assessments (Manias et al., 2020). This leads to developing and administering applicable strategies to address those causes of medicine crimes.
This approach also fosters a terrain to promote continuity of care by addressing medicine crimes from tradition to administration stages. The interdisciplinary team can observe the holistic approach by examining the entire medicine process and assessing the social, cerebral, and organizational factors contributing to these crimes, analogous to communication breakdowns, system failures, and individual misapprehensions (Mieiro et al., 2019). Consequently, the team members can coordinate to target the factors and develop the right strategies. This will lead to better health issues and help achieve the thing of reducing medicine crimes (Souza et al., 2019).
The interdisciplinary plan aims to reduce the number of adverse medicine events and patient detriment by efficiently integrating Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in our sanitarium. The absolute thing is to enhance patient safety and produce a culture of continuous improvement aligning with the organizational outgrowth, i.e., patient satisfaction.
Integration and performance of EHR can address medicine crimes by adding customized features, including adverts for implicit drug relations, medical concession, and cure-checking rates (Gildon et al., 2019). Furnishing respectable training to healthcare professionals on using EHR efficiently could reduce medicine crimes. Staff members will be better informed about cases’ health conditions and will give the applicable drug to them (DiAngi et al., 2019). The EHR will promote impeccable and streamlined communication and can give real-time updates on a case’s medicine changes (Vos et al., 2020).
The interdisciplinary team, composed of the sanitarium director and healthcare professionals, including croakers, babysitters, apothecaries, information technologists, nurse informaticists, and babysitters, will work together to execute the interdisciplinary plan to avoid medicine crimes. The sanitarium director will ensure that the healthcare pool receives respectable training on the use of EHRs by IT technologists and nurse informaticists (Wilbanks & Aroke, 2020).
The IT technologists and nurse informaticists will collaboratively conclude the deal and supervise the integration of EHRs. Also, they will give any unborn variations rest on the results attained to ensure nonstop enhancement. The healthcare pool will be the primary storer of EHR to promote medicine safety. They will contemporize medicine-related changes in EHR to grease communication and collaboration (Robertson et al., 2022).
An interdisciplinary plan will be executed by following the PDSA cycle, which ensures continuous improvement in managing medicine crimes. The PDSA stands for the Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle, which will help associations in iterative testing and refinement of medicine operation (Moser et al., 2020). Following are the ways by which the PSDA cycle will help apply the interdisciplinary plan of installing and nearly using the EHRs within healthcare associations.
In this stage, the unambiguous pretensions for EHR integration will be defined, analogous to perfecting effectiveness, reducing medicine crimes, enhancing quality of care, and meeting nonsupervisory conditions. The pretensions will be specific, measurable, applicable, and time-bound. Also, the stakeholders primarily involved in medicine operation and taking EHR use will be linked. These stakeholders will be healthcare professionals, the IT labor force, and sanitarium administration (Carr et al., 2023). Firstly, the plan will be developed considering the conditions of EHR integration and performance, analogous to diving software selection, workflow redesigning, training and education, and data migration.
The plan will be executed by integrating EHR and training staff members to transition to EHR for medicine tradition and administration. Likewise, the data will be gathered to observe the issues and performance pointers (Carr et al., 2023).
In this stage, the collected data will be observed and estimated to identify any areas for improvement. Likewise, case and healthcare professional feedback will be attained to understand the user experience and case satisfaction. Firstly, the challenges and successes will be measured to make room for advancements or sustain the current changes (Carr et al., 2023).
The final stage will involve vindicating the integration of the EHR and addressing the affiliated issues. The healthcare pool will upgrade the processes to enhance performance and reduce medicine crimes. This will affect the performance of a shaped plan and nonstop enhancement by repeating the change process throughout the PDSA cycle (Carr et al., 2023).
The interdisciplinary plan is so advanced that it ensures effective operation of coffers without any chances of wasting them. Mortal coffers are employed to produce a plan for the integration and practicality of EHRs. A communication plan is developed to keep staff informed about EHR integration, and the EHR experts can proactively address their enterprises (Crowley et al., 2019).
They will also apply training programs to enhance staff proficiency in using EHR for drug operation. Eventually, mortal coffers will be enabled to effectively use EHRs and help drug crimes by safe drug administration as per the case’s health conditions. In two ferocious care departments of a community sanatorium, the healthcare pool was suitable to reduce drug crimes by using EHRs effectively (Carayon et al., 2021).
The financial resources are employed to effectively integrate EHRs, which includes concluding merchandisers, installing software, and copping necessary outfits analogous to computers and tablets. Also, there are costs involved in furnishing training and education to the healthcare pool. The fiscal coffers are managed by planning a budget that includes costs while considering the system’s budget (Aguirre et al., 2019).
The resources are also allocated predicated on the prioritized areas and critical conditions. Likewise, a Return on Investment (ROI) analysis is performed to assess the financial impact of EHR performance. The advancements are measured in reducing crimes, saving fresh time and costs of medicine crimes, and furnishing effective care (Aguirre et al., 2019). Firstly, the EHR performance will be done on a small scale, and the extension to other departments will be handed off after thorough evaluation to ensure continuous advancements and sustain these changes.
A 260-bed sanitarium estimated the EHR performance and designed the workflows for each department to manage financial resources and adopt this technology to improve the quality of care and reduce medicine crimes (Aguirre et al., 2019). In another study conducted in North America, the EHR performance increased per-case costs from $67750 to $5026000, but the costs can be reduced after data structure is attained (McCord et al., 2019).
The successful issues of the design will be as follows:
Case satisfaction is an indirect system of determining the success of this plan. When medicine crimes are reduced and cases admit the correct medicine, their health issues will be better, leading to a quick recovery. This will cultivate patient satisfaction, and feedback from cases can be collected to assess their satisfaction with care treatment and determine whether the plan is successful (Kieval et al., 2020).
This is the direct system of measuring the success of this plan. Comparing the rate of medicine crimes pre- and post-perpetration of EHR can give a clear idea of the success of this plan. Still, the plan shows its success if medicine crimes are reduced after using EHR. Still, further advancements must be made to address the challenges and pitfalls (Manias et al., If medicine crimes increase, 2020).
To add up, I mooted the prevailing issue of drug crimes at Tampa General Hospital and demanded my cult’s attention as precious stakeholders. This issue requires keen attention as it impacts patient safety. The interdisciplinary plan summary is to integrate the EHRs as drug error forestallment technology. This requires the use of the PDSA approach for effective performance. Also, colorful styles effectively manage the fiscal and moral coffers. Originally, the success of this plan was estimated by measuring patient satisfaction and comparing drug error frequency before and after the performance of EHRs. Thank you.
Aguirre, R. R., Suarez, O., Fuentes, M., & Sanchez-Gonzalez, M. A. (2019). Electronic health record perpetration: A review of coffers and tools. Cureus, 11 (https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5649
Carayon, P., Wetterneck, T. B., Cartmill, R., Blosky, M. A., Brown, R., Hoonakker, P., Kim, R., Kukreja, S., Johnson, M., Paris, B. L., Wood, K. E., & Walker, J. M. (2021). The study examines drug safety in two intensive care units of a community teaching hospital following the implementation of electronic health records, considering sociotechnical and human factors. Journal of Patient Safety, 17(5). https://doi.org/10.1097/PTS.0000000000000358
Carr, L. H., Christ, L., and Ferro, D. F. published their work in 2023. The electronic health record as a quality enhancement tool. Conventions in Perinatology, 50(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clp.2023.01.008
Crowley, K., Mishra, A., Cruz-Cano, R., Gold, R., Kleinman, D., and Agarwal, R. published their work in 2019. Electronic health record preparation findings at a large, suburban health and mortality services department. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 25(1), E11–E16. https://doi.org/10.1097/phh.0000000000000768
| Criteria | Distinguished (A) | Proficient (B) | Basic (C) | Non-Performance (F) |
| Clarity of Presentation | Clear, organized, and professional; audience-focused | Mostly clear; minor organizational issues | Some clarity issues; hard to follow | Unclear or disorganized |
| Identification of Organizational Issue | Thoroughly describes issue with evidence and impact | Describes issue with minor gaps | Vague or incomplete description | Issue not identified |
| Interdisciplinary Plan & Team Approach | Comprehensive plan; clearly defines roles, collaboration, and EHR use | Mostly clear; minor gaps in team roles or plan | Limited or unclear team approach | No plan or team roles addressed |
| Implementation Strategy | Applies PDSA cycle clearly; actionable steps provided | PDSA mentioned; steps mostly clear | PDSA or steps unclear | No implementation strategy |
| Resource & Stakeholder Management | Clearly identifies human, financial, and technological resources; engages stakeholders | Most resources identified; minor gaps | Limited identification of resources or stakeholders | Resources or stakeholder engagement missing |
| Evaluation & Outcome Measures | Defines clear metrics for success; evidence-based | Metrics mostly clear; minor gaps | Metrics vague or incomplete | No metrics or evaluation plan |
Medicine crimes are a leading cause of preventable detriment worldwide. Addressing them improves safety, trust, and organizational issues.
EHRs give features like automated cautions, cure checks, and real-time communication, which help define and administer misapprehensions.
Directors ensure coffers and training.
IT/nanny informaticists integrate and support EHR systems.
Physicians/babysitters/apothecaries Safely define, administer, and examine specifics.
We will measure success by comparing pre- and post-preparation error rates, patient satisfaction checks, and staff feedback.
The PDSA cycle allows for iterative acclimatizations, inciting nonstop knowledge and advancements.
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