Quantifying nursing workflow in medication administration.

Adoption of new technologies including barcode systems and electronic chemical management records is seen as a way to improve the safety of chemical management. However, it has been reported that the introduction of new technology resulted in unintended consequences. This AHRQ-assisted time-motion study observed and explained a typical nursing workflow, found that medication management is the most time-consuming task, followed by communication and patient direct treatment. When technology creates new workflows and processes, authors insist on prudent implementation as the increase in time of events certainly risks reducing the time of other equally important aspects of completing care .

The new drug management system shows that it is promising to improve the patient's safety at the care site, but to adopt these systems, a major change in care workflow is necessary. In preparation for these changes, the authors are reporting time-sports research to measure the proportion of time spent by nurses in various patient-care activities, focusing on activities related to drug management. I explained the meaning of that discovery

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