NURS-FPX4010_M_Assessment 3-1 Solution.docx
Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal
Capella University
NURS-FPX 4010-Leading People, Processes, and Organizations in Interprofessional Practice
Dr. Linda Marcuccilli
January 28, 2023
Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal
Healthcare professionals are likely to experience issues that have negative implications on the quality, safety, and cost of care. The challenges reinforce the need for interdisciplinary practices, where physicians, nurses, and others embrace team-based functions, values, and behaviors to optimize care outcomes. This plan focuses on wrong medication administration, which is among the issues that have adverse implications on organization reputation and financial stability.
The issue raises questions about the level of vigilance and staff commitment to using interdisciplinary approaches to identify and intercept risk factors. I will recommend double checks as part of the efforts to encourage collaborative practices when administering medications and ascertaining adherence to the five rights of safe medication administration.
Objectives
- To enlighten the interdisciplinary audience about the value of double checks in facilitating safe medication administration. The objective highlights the need for healthcare professionals to respond positively to team-based initiatives designed to enhance vigilance across the care continuum (Manias, 2018).
- To emphasize the relevance of team-based functions in encouraging collective commitment to establishing and maintaining a safe clinical environment.The objective encourages everyone to embrace team-based values, attitudes, and behaviors to reduce the risk of wrong medication administration (Ahmed et al., 2019).
- To discuss the various risks associated with wrong medication administration. Awareness makes the care team highly alert and committed to identifying and intercepting near misses and medication errors.
Questions and Predictions
- How will the plan encourage the care team to embrace interdisciplinary collaboration? Double-checking makes physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and others aware of challenges when administering medications and the need for collaborative efforts to intercept errors.
- How do double-checks enhance medication administration safety across the continuum? The prediction is that relevant parties involved in medication administration will recognize double-checks as a standard practice that helps reduce the risk of wrong medication administration (Berdot & Sabatier, 2018).
- How will leaders and the rest of the team implement the plan? The prediction is that everyone will participate in the training and education session to understand the strategies for using double-checks to enhance safety and quality of medication administration.
Change Aspects and Leadership to Prevent Medication Errors
Change management makes everyone familiar with the steps intended to optimize care outcomes. The transformational leader is the right option for the care team to acknowledge the need for interdisciplinary efforts for identifying and intercepting risks. The transformational leader portrays people-centered practices appropriate for encouraging behaviors, attitudes, and values appropriate for double-checking. Focus on shared decision-making, interpersonal relations, and clarity of roles allows the transformational leader to create and sustain a safe clinical environment.
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) is among the viable change models that allows leaders to deliver a consistent message to the team (McNicholas et al., 2019). The framework inspires actions required to introduce double-checks and make the solution a standard consideration when administering medications. The leader provides nurturing and attention to risk factors associated with wrong medication administration within the organization. A focus on process and information sharing motivates members of the care team to participate in planning, testing, observing outcomes, and adjusting clinical practices to achieve the intended outcomes.
Collaboration Strategies
Collaborative practices are primary considerations that make everyone dedicated to adhering to the rights of safe medication administration. The approach allows healthcare professionals to embrace team-based values, behaviors, and attitudes appropriate for responding to patient demands. One strategy for encouraging collaborative efforts is having a leader who elicits trust and mutual interests across the care continuum (Sigmon, 2020).
The leader encourages collective buy-in, where everyone appreciates the relevance of double-checks in optimizing medication administration procedures. Excellent communication is another priority that enhance transparency, openness, and shared decision-making relevant for identifying and intercepting risks (Sigmon, 2020). Effective interpersonal relations guarantees staff commitment to verifying and ascertaining accuracy and safety of medication administration procedures.
Organization Resources
Required organization resources include finances, technical items, and human-related components relevant for producing the intended outcomes. The resources largely include those that will allow the care team to acquire essential knowledge and skills in double-checking medications. The resources appear in the table below:
| Item | Description | Cost ($) |
| Notes on double-checking procedures | The notes available in form of pocket guides enable members of the care team to familiarize with double-checking as a standard practice for enhancing medication administration safety. | 300 |
| Nurse educator | The nurse educator will oversee the training and education sessions to ensure that the audience understands and acknowledges the relevance of double-checking across the care continuum | 1,500 |
| Role-play instructions | The team to participate in role-plays designed to equip individuals with knowledge and skills on effective double-checking | 200 |
| Video simulations | Make the sessions exciting and impactful by using video simulations to allow the audience to visualize double-checking procedures and implications on the safety and quality of medication administration. | 200 |
| Case study | Share a case study about a medication error that happened at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A nurse administered paralytic vecuronium instead of the sedative Versed leading to the patient’s death. | 150 |
References
Ahmed, Z., Saada, M., Jones, A. M., & Al-Hamid, A. M. (2019). Medical errors: Healthcare professionals’ perspective at a tertiary hospital in Kuwait. PloS one, 14(5), 17-23. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31116773/
Berdot, S., & Sabatier, B. (2018). Medication errors may be reduced by double-checking method. Evidence-Based Nursing, 21, (3), 67-77. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03335317/file/Berdot%20double%20check%202018.full.pdf
Manias, E. (2018). Effects of interdisciplinary collaboration in hospitals on medication errors: An integrative review. Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, 17(3), 259-275. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29303376/
McNicholas, C., Lennox, L., Woodcock, T., Bell, D., & Reed, J. E. (2019). Evolving quality improvement support strategies to improve plan–do–study–act cycle fidelity: A retrospective mixed-methods study. BMJ Quality & Safety, 28(5), 356–365. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30886118/
Sigmon, L. B. (2020). Interprofessional collaboration made easy. American Nurse Today, 15(11), 36-38. https://www.myamericannurse.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/an11-Interprofessional-1026.pdf