Implementation of a smart pump champions program to decrease potential patient harm /
Orio, Victoria.
Implementation of a smart pump champions program to decrease potential patient harm / Victoria Orio, Cristina C. Hendrix, Barbara Griffith, S. Theodore Shaikewitz - April-June 2015 - Journal of Nursing Care Quality 30 : 2, Page 138-143 .
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.
Nursing
1057-3631
Medical care.
Drug infusion pumps.
Quality management.
Patient safety.
United States.
Implementation of a smart pump champions program to decrease potential patient harm / Victoria Orio, Cristina C. Hendrix, Barbara Griffith, S. Theodore Shaikewitz - April-June 2015 - Journal of Nursing Care Quality 30 : 2, Page 138-143 .
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.
Nursing
1057-3631
Medical care.
Drug infusion pumps.
Quality management.
Patient safety.
United States.