Evidence-Based Practice Change Process for Enhancing Patient Safety Culture in Hospital Nursing
Overview
This paper addresses hospital medication and nursing errors as a critical patient safety issue using the ACE Star Model framework. The author proposes evidence-based interventions involving interdisciplinary stakeholder collaboration to establish a systematic safety culture that reduces errors and improves patient outcomes.
What this coursework covers
- Discovery phase identifying nursing errors as primary practice problem and their impact on patient mortality
- Systematic literature review examining patient safety culture predictors including management support and teamwork
- Translation phase outlining intervention protocols with identified stakeholders and cost analysis for implementation
- Implementation planning involving hospital management and nurse leaders obtaining official approval
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Evidence-Based Practice Change Process
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Evidence-Based Practice Change Process
ACE Star Model
Discovery (Topic Identification and Practice Issue)
Managers in healthcare settings have experienced numerous errors. Errors have significant impacts because they place patients’ health at the risk of death and illness. Therefore, it is essential to focus on errors made by nurses in hospitals when enhancing a safety culture
It should be noted that nurses make numerous errors in hospitals, which have caused a significant percentage of patients to die. The primary factors that cause errors include inability to pay attention, fatigue, and recklessness.
Summary
Errors in hospitals have resulted in the practice problem. Although they have adverse effects, medical practitioners have not implemented a safety culture in healthcare settings that would improve patient outcomes.
The systematic review is listed below.
Ammouri, A. A., Tailakh, A. K., Muliira, J. K., Geethakrishnan, R., & Al Kindi, S. N. (2015).
Patient safety culture among nurses. International Nursing Review, 62(1), 102-110.
Other sources are listed below
Bush, P. A., Hueckel, R. M., Robinson, D., Seelinger, T. A., & Molloy, M. A. (2015).
Cultivating a culture of medication safety in prelicensure nursing students. Nurse educator, 40(4), 169-173.
Cloete, L. (2015). Reducing medication errors in nursing practice. Cancer Nursing
Practice, 14(1).
Flynn, F., Evanish, J. Q., Fernald, J. M., Hutchinson, D. E., & Lefaiver, C. (2016). Progressive
care nurses improving patient safety by limiting interruptions during medication administration. Critical care nurse, 36(4), 19-35.
The following is a brief summary of the main findings
Patient safety is a substantial factor, in promoting quality healthcare.