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Preparing the Discussion
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
General Instructions
Include the following sections:
Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
Describe a current safety concern in your practice environment.
Explain one HIT that could be applied to address the concern.
Explain how it could be applied to enhance safety.
Identify at least one possible unintended consequence of adopting the HIT.
Discuss at least one strategy for mitigating the unintended consequence.
Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectationsLinks to an external site.:
Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
Include a minimum of three different scholarly sources per week. Cite all references and provide references for all citations.
Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers and faculty by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice.
Peer Response: Respond to at least one peer.
Faculty Response: Respond to at least one faculty post.
Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references and is free of errors.
PEEER 1 post /Angel BI
In my clinical setting, a common safety concern is medication errors, especially during medication administration and transitions of care. These errors can happen because of incomplete information, poor communication, or time pressure, and they can affect patient safety.
One technology that can help address this issue is the electronic health record (EHR) with a clinical decision support system (CDSS). This system provides alerts for drug interactions, allergies, and incorrect dosages. This technology helps improve safety by giving real-time alerts and supporting better clinical decisions. It also improves communication since all team members can access the same patient information, which helps reduce errors. One possible downside is alert fatigue. When there are too many alerts, providers may start to ignore them, which reduces the effectiveness of the system. To address this, alerts can be adjusted to focus on the most important ones and reduce unnecessary notifications. Staff education can also help improve how the system is used.
Overall, EHR and CDSS can improve patient safety, but they need to be used carefully to avoid creating new risks (Sittig et al., 2020).
Reference
Sittig, D. F., Wright, A., Coiera, E., Magrabi, F., Ratwani, R., Bates, D. W., & Singh, H. (2020). Current challenges in health information technology–related patient safety. Health Informatics Journal, 26(1), 181–189. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458218814893Links to an external site.
PEER 2 DR Prashad /Faculty POST
Angel,
Thank you for your response this week. To add to the postings this week and building on last week assignments to look at this week’s outcomes, McBride and Tietze (2022) provided the following examples of how CDSS works which can be considered for safety issues related to APN practice:
Example: vaccination adherence and conflict between community choices and national quality measures
CDSâ€s job is not to enforce compliance, but to make compliance easier and more accurately reportable
CDS: Importance of human factors design principles
Apply knowledge about human capabilities and limitations to design
Research team recommendations for the design and implementation of clinical information systems
I see that you mentioned alert fatigue as an issue. How do you see the APN developing strategies to mitigate the unintended consequence identified in your post? I see that you mentioned the nurse so looking for a focus on advanced practice competencies.
Reference:
McBride, S., & Tietze, M. (2022).Nursing informatics for the advanced practice nurse: Patient safety, quality, outcomes, and interprofessionalism(3rd. ed). Springer Publishing Company.
Dr.Prashad
