Assessment of the Nurse Medication Administration Workflow Process.

This paper shows the results of observational studies of Registered Nurses (RN) Drug Management Process (MAP) conducted in two equivalent medical units in the Large Scale Tertiary Medical Center in Columbia, South Carolina. With an average of 5 MAP observations for each RN participant for both clinical units, a total of 305 individual MAP observations were recorded over 6 weeks. An important MAP change was determined based on the bundled MAP performance of the unbundled MAP. In an unbundled workflow, the RN joins the MAP by performing only the MAP task during the care event. In a bundled workflow, RN is responsible for drug management and other patient care during the treatment period. This white paper uses a separate event simulation model to solve the differences between unbundled workflows and bundled workflows and their impact on simulation redesign interventions.

Studies have shown that there are several potential failure points during the ordering, confirmation, preparation, distribution and management of medicines. In addition to having dozens of steps in the treatment medication management workflow, several medications require separate and distinct steps to manage. The nurse is responsible for "passing through the last mile" under medication. The nurse is the last check between accurate medication and potential medication errors. Therefore, before you make technical decisions, you need to fully understand the care process and workflow. The first step in choosing the product shape for the point of care scanning system that is most suitable for your care organization is to use the flow chart to map and study the current medication management process. We need to understand the difference in delivery of various drugs

Applying BCMA technology to the drug management process has a serious impact on nursing work. When introducing the BCMA system, it is necessary to consider several problems surrounding the care workflow environment. Due to the availability of hardware and software, the degree of acceptance of BCMA in the patient care procedure by nurses is determined, even to ease of use of bar code readers and practical problems such as availability of portable computers. This provides a unique opportunity for nurse researchers to demonstrate leadership in the development and design of the BCMA system. Proactive collaboration between nurses and information technology staff - Provide indications such as emergency order alerts, reports of missing drugs, or records of medicines missed during the shift - very beneficial for deployment of the BCMA system