Medication Administration Proposal

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Proposed Solution
Medication administration is a common procedure practice in an assisted living/residential community in which the staff members are not licensed; in settings such as this staff members are often lay people who administers medication and provide care. It is facilities such as these where it has been found many medication errors occurs due to non-medical people administering medications, people who are unfamiliar the medications being administered, communication barriers, medication orders, the packaging, and the wrong medication doses at the wrong times. The list of errors are endless, yet troublesome (MacDonald, I., 2013). Medication errors are listed “a preventable adverse effect of medical care” which can lead to a …show more content…

It will take a regulatory approach such as in 2001, in which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other federal agencies formed the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force in 2000 and issued an action plan for reducing medical errors. Although with good faith and good intentions. The FDA in order to minimize confusion between drug names that look or sound alike they created a computerized program that assists in detecting similar names, the FDA ensured drug labeling was on all medications as well as over the counter medications and FDA reviews medication error reports that come from drug manufacturers. However this is not enough (U.S. Food and Drug …show more content…

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Organization Culture
The organization for which this culture should take place would be for medication administration in an assisted living/residential facility. When compared to other health care facilities that do offer systems that are similar such as the hospitals that use the bar code systems and Id recognition for medication administration, as well as some insurances offering nurses insurances for malpractice or even offering reporting medication errors without fault to the staff member.
Expected Outcomes
The purpose and objective is to ensure the safety of the patient medication administration in facilities that in a non-nursing population. In an effort to improve the patient medication experiences in assisted living facilities. The interventions listed above are to place plausible solution to frail system that continues to fail patient safety. Unlike other health care facilities that provide licensed staff members their systems are more regulated than those of a residential or assisted living facility. The expected outcomes can only build a system that would provide some line of a regulatory approach to a system that is left without recourse.
Method to Achieve

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