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Implementation of a Smart Pump Champions Program to Decrease Potential Patient Harm.
Implementation of a Smart Pump Champions Program to Decrease Potential Patient Harm.
- Source :
- Journal of Nursing Care Quality; Apr-Jun2015, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p138-143, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Compliance with safety features on smart pumps with drug libraries is a challenge for health care systems. Noncompliance and workarounds heighten the risk for adverse drug events and subsequent costs of patient care. This quality improvement project describes a pump champion innovation implemented over a 6-month period. There was a significant increase in nurses' compliance to drug library software in smart pumps and a decrease in severe harms averted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PREVENTION of drug side effects
MEDICATION error prevention
CHI-squared test
LEGAL compliance
COMPUTER software
STATISTICAL correlation
DRUG infusion pumps
HOSPITAL health promotion programs
LONGITUDINAL method
MEDICAL protocols
NURSES
NURSING
PHARMACISTS
PHYSICIANS
PROFESSIONS
QUALITY assurance
PRE-tests & post-tests
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10573631
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Nursing Care Quality
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 101672978
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000090