1. List at least 4 institutional committees currently at your practice site. Explain the main purpose of each committee and who is required to attend each meeting. (12 pts)
A. P&T committee is a medical staff committee that is composed of physicians from various specialties. The committee has a family practice physician, cardiologist, hospitalist, pediatrician, obstetrician, nephrologist, orthopedist, an infectious disease physician, a nursing representative, microbiology representative, emergency room physician and a pharmacist.
B. Medication safety committee reviews reported medication errors and determine if the errors were due to a process that can be addressed and they can possibly eliminate the errors. Pharmacists, physicians and nursing
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Interdisciplinary committee for the information systems. Every other month they meet to discuss things that are stemming from the computer system. An example would be changing the way they order certain medication is the pyxis system. They meet more often when they are going through computer system upgrades. The committee consists of pharmacists, lab technicians, x-ray technicians, nursing, admitting, billing, the chief finance officer, registration, outpatient clinics representatives. They discuss what kind of impact the computer system changes will have on each department. If the change is too important to wait for the next meeting the chair will send out an email to everyone on the committee explaining the changes.
Choose 1 of the committees discussed with your preceptor and answer the following questions.
2. Pertaining to the institutional committee meeting you discussed and/or attended (e.g P&T Committee if possible), please answer the following questions:
a. Explain the role of the department of pharmacy/staff on that committee? (2pts)
The role of the department of pharmacy on the P&T committee is to prepare the agenda, evaluate drug use and analyze the data, record the minutes for the meeting, discuss items that will or will not be entered into the formulary, policies and procedures related to medication and order entry, purchasing opportunities of new medication verses current medications and product takeaways.
b. In what ways did the pharmacist prepare for
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It is composed of actively practicing physicians, other prescribers, pharmacists, nurses, administrators, quality improvement managers, and other health care professionals and staff who participate in the medication-use process. The P&T committee should be responsible for overseeing policies and procedures related to all aspects of medication use within an institution. The P&T committee is responsible to the medical staff as a whole, and its recommendations are subject to approval by the organized medical staff as well as the administrative approval process. The P&T committee’s organization and authority should be outlined in the organization’s medical staff bylaws, medical staff rules and regulations, and other organizational policies as appropriate. Other responsibilities of the P&T committee include medication-use evaluation (MUE), adverse-drug-event monitoring and reporting, medication-error prevention, and development of clinical care plans and guidelines. The hospital’s internal policies follow all national standards for how the P&T committee should
Each year, roughly 1.5 million adverse drug events (ADEs) occur in acute and long-term care settings across America (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2006). An ADE is succinctly defined as actual or potential patient harm resulting from a medication error. To expound further, while ADEs may result from oversights related to prescribing or dispensing, 26-32% of all erroneous drug interventions occur during the nursing administration and monitoring phases (Anderson & Townsend, 2010). These mollifiable mishaps not only create a formidable financial burden for health care systems, they also carry the potential of imposing irreversible physiological impairment to patients and their families. In an effort to ameliorate cost inflation, undue detriment, and the potential for litigation, a multifactorial approach must be taken to improve patient outcomes. Key components in allaying drug-related errors from a nursing perspective include: implementing safety and quality measures, understanding the roles and responsibilities of the nurse, embracing technological safeguards, incorporating interdisciplinary collaborative efforts, and continued emphasis upon quality control.
4. How would you rate your overall understanding of healthcare business analyses? What steps do you plan on taking to increase your knowledge and understanding?
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA 2009), the wrong route of administrating medication accounts for 1.3 million injuries each year. An article published in September issue of the Journal of Patient Safety estimates there are between 210,000 and 400,000 deaths per year associated with medical errors. This makes medical errors the third leading cause of deaths in the United States, behind that comes heart disease and cancer. To prevent medical errors always follow the Three Checks and most importantly the Rights of Medication Administration. The “Rights of Medication Administration” helps to ensure accuracy when administering medication to a patient. When administering medication the administer should ensure they have the Right Medication, Right Patient, Right Dosage, Right Route, Right Time, Right Route, Right Reason, and Right Documentation. Also remember the patient has the right to refuse, assess patient for pain, and always assess the patient for signs of effects.
Medication errors are the leading cause of morbidity and preventable death in hospitals (Adams). In fact, approximately 1.5 million Americans are injured each year as a result of medication errors in hospitals (Foote). Not only are medication errors harmful to patients but medication errors are very expensive for hospitals. Medication errors cost America’s health care system 3.5 billion dollars per year (Foote).Errors in medication administration occurs when one of the five rights of medication administration is omitted. The five rights are: a) the right dose, b) the right medication, c) the right patient, d) the right route of administration, and e) the right time of delivery (Adams). Medication administration is an essential part of
Outcome measures assess whether the interventions to improve medication safety practice will be successful. During the interview of the new employee, competency evaluation related to medication administration will be applied first. In addition, during the orientation for these new employees, adequate training will be provided to ensure the importance of preventing medication errors. They will be given a list of similar and look-alike medications and will focus on medications that cause the most adverse reactions when errors may occur. Then, after training and when staff start working, they will be supervised during their first few months. When they are not supervised, they will be assessed and evaluated for any errors. During this process,
One of the standards that has been implemented is Standard 4: Medication Safety. The Australian Commission implemented this standard with the intention of ensuring that competent clinicians safely prescribe, dispense and administer appropriate medicines to informed patients and monitor the effect. (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, 2012) In healthcare, one of the most common treatments is medication. As a result of this, there are many incidences of error, many more than any other healthcare interventions. According to the Patient Safety Network (PS Network, 2015) medication errors account for nearly 700,000 emergency department visits and 100,000 hospitalizations each year. Medication errors are often a result of the unsafe and poor quality practice of healthcare professionals or system errors. Medication errors are costly and many are avoidable. For this standard
The United State, health care system wastes approximately 700 billion dollars yearly on systematic inefficiencies such as unnecessary procedures, frauds, administrative practices and errors ( Plonien, 2013). Medication administration error differs across the literature, it may be defined as a preventable event or deviation from procedures, policies and/or best practices that may result to inappropriate desired outcome in a patient. The vast majority of medication error occurs due to deviation in the standard procedure for medication administration ( Admi, et al., 2013).
Q1: In order to enhance your personal knowledge and working relationships, you decide to join some professional organisations.
Medication error is defined as the following by the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention: “any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of health care professional, patient, or consumer. Such events may be related to professional practice, health care products, procedures, and systems, including prescribing; order communication; product labeling; packaging, and nomenclature; compounding; dispensing; distribution; administration; education; monitoring; and use” (Anthony, Wiencek, Bauer, Daly, & Anthony, 2010). Medication errors cause increased length of patient hospitalization and morbidity and mortality (Pape
The first part of the seminar focused on the healthcare organizations and the responsibilities of the medical staff. What happens if a medical staff member’s credentials are not screened properly. Along with what the National Practitioner Data Bank is used for. There was a section monitoring to physician monitoring through peer review.
|Review Audit Committee meeting on October 18, 2007 and draft an appropriate engagement letter. |4 |
1. After reading the assignments for this week, discuss the impact of knowledge related to various populations and how this can impact your professional clinical practice
It is important for committee meetings to stay on task and cover the general topics of the clinical question how the new practice was found and evaluated, what it means for current practice, and if there will be a change in practice. It is important at each committee meeting to consider why this change would be helpful to each of the professions and specialties; doing this will allow for improved buy-in.
| Responses to most of the questions provided demonstrate some understanding of the guiding principles of supervision and evaluation. (10-8 points)
Pharmacist is an important member of the health care team. Reporting suspected ADR is one of the pharmacist’s responsibilities and professional obligations. ADR-monitoring and reporting programs encourage ADR surveillance, facilitate ADR documentation, promote the reporting of ADRs, provide a mechanism for monitoring the safety of drug use in high-risk populations, and stimulate the education of health providers regarding potential ADRs 69.