How Important to Develop Effective Interventional Measures?

How Important to Develop Effective Interventional Measures?
Introduction
Healthcare systems around the world share the common objective of delivering quality care to patients. Achieving the said objective entails providing safe and affordable care to all patients. In essence, quality patient care is a function of reduced cost of care and prevention of harm during the delivery of medical care. Medication errors makes for one of the patient safety problems limiting the achievement of the vital healthcare objective. According to Marufu (2022), medication errors can occur during the prescription, dispensing, and administration of medicines to patients. Such errors account for diverse negative implications on the patients’ safety including prolonged hospitalization and even death in the extreme cases. Such outcomes in nursing further lead to higher cost of care and thus limiting the ability to deliver quality nursing care to patient. It is, therefore, important to develop effective interventional measures toward addressing the patient safety problem of medication errors. Provided herein is an evaluation of an evidence-based nursing intervention against medication errors in neonatal and pediatric care.
PICOT Statement
Do practicing nurses enrolled in nursing education on medication safety record lower incidents of medication errors in neonatal and pediatric care than those who do not participate in the in-service education program?
Evidence-Based Solution
According to Marufu (2022), neonatal and pediatric patients are three times more likely to be exposed to medication errors than adult patients. Among the highest incidents of medication errors in neonatal and pediatric care are the medication administration and prescribing errors at the rates of 78% and 37%, respectively. CITATION Mar22 \l 1033 (Marufu, 2022). Both medication administration and prescribing errors expose children to higher likelihood of harm than the adult patients. Nurses are often at the forefront of administering medication to the neonatal and pediatric patients and thus liable to commit the outlined medication errors CITATION Mar22 \l 1033 (Marufu, 2022). Registered nurses (RN) with formal nursing education may experience difficulties in executing their competencies in safe administration of patient medication due to a wide range of factors CITATION Mus19 \l 1033 (Musharyanti, 2019). The key risk factors for the prevalence of medication errors in neonatal and pediatric care include limited knowledge of pharmacology, poor communication among the care practitioners, and interruptions during the delivery of medication care CITATION Zak17 \l 1033 (Zakira, 2017). Mitigating the outlined risk factors demands the implementation of effective interventional measure towards reducing medication error incidents in neonatal and pediatric nursing care. An integrated approach involving interdisciplinary collaboration between clinical pharmacist and nurses coupled with the adoption of best practices such as the use...