Reducing Interruptions to Improve Medication Safety
- 1 April 2013
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Nursing Care Quality
- Vol. 28 (2), 176-185
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ncq.0b013e318275ac3e
Abstract
In the fast-paced environment of a cardiac and thoracic surgery telemetry unit, nurses are interrupted hundreds of times per day. These interruptions can have a detrimental effect on patient safety during medication administration. This article describes a bundle of safety interventions that reduced the average number of interruptions during medication administration by 2.11 interruptions per encounter and decreased reported medication errors by a total of 28 incidents over a 3-month period.Keywords
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