Summary: Team Curriculum Objectives

Team B Curriculum Objectives Paper
Shaundra Allbritton, Lori Gibbons-Nelson, & Jennifer Pavel
NUR/588
January 26, 2015
Mary Martin

Team Curriculum Objectives Paper Department of Veterans Affairs is comprised of three administrations, Veterans Health and Benefits Administration, and National Cemetery Administration. Although all three serve Veterans and their families, VHA is the largest of the three that work to meet their health care needs. With more than 54 VA medical organizations, rarely, two functions are the same, however, the mission, is the same for each of them (“United States Department of Veterans Affairs,” 2014). Established by The Joint Commission, National Patient Safety Goals are a primary focus of
1. To demonstrate compliance and full implementation of the National Patient Safety Goal #1 Improve the accuracy of patient identifiacation. Evidenced by a. Use of two patient identifiers when taking blood samples or administering medications or blood products.
b. Documented implementation of VHA Directive 2002-070, Ensuring Correct Surgery
c. Develop outcome measures to show 100% compliance with policy IM-03- Identify authentication and identification of patients.
d. Use of BCMA to the fullest extent possible.
Newsday (April 7, 2002) reported 440 deaths occur in the U.S. related to blood transfusion. The VA National Center Root Cause Analysis (RCA) cases on blood transfusion and in 2002 the Joint Commission reported 12 sentinel events related to blood transfusion. In 1994 a nurse working at a VA Medical Center came up with the idea of bar coding medications at the bedside after renting a car using a bar code. By 2003, bar code medication administration (BCMA) is used throughout the VA in all inpatient settings. VA administers 600,000 mediations daily through BCMA and over 1 billion doses since 1999 using the automated monitoring system (Carlson & Bagby). With the integrated use of BCMA all inpatient care areas use patient identifiers at the point of
Teaching evaluations after lectures help the educator evaluate if there is a further need for the students on the material while return demonstrations help evaluated hands on skills. Once lessons have been taught and the evaluations have been done for the lesson, implementation of the changes or new aspects will be in affect facility wide, there needs to be an assessment within a specified time frame to see how the implementation is going and if there needs to be more teaching or a change in the teaching. Usually facility wide evaluations are survey based, but they can also be visual where they survey team will be on the unit to see if the instructions are being used as