Implementation of a smart pump champions program to decrease potential patient harm / Victoria Orio, Cristina C. Hendrix, Barbara Griffith, S. Theodore Shaikewitz

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Orio, Victoria

Series: Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 30 : 2, Page 138-143 Publication details: April-June 2015Content type:

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1057-3631

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Summary: 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.

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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.

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