Nurses improve medication administration accuracy

摘要

A group of seven hospitals in the San Francisco Bay area participated in an 18-month-long program designed to improve the reliability of medication administration by deploying nurse leadership and PI skills on a single med/ surg unit. The results? Among the six hospitals that were included in the first analysis, accuracy improved from 85% to 92% in the first six months and to 96% 18 months after the intervention. The study was published in the Joint Commission journal on Quality and Patient Safety.