Proprofessional Proposal Paper
Nursing Informatics Interprofessional Proposal Project
Introduction and Assessment
Patient safety is very important to the healthcare provider, healthcare facility or organization. One area that continues to be a safety issue is mislabeled or unlabeled specimens. Mislabeled specimens happen for a variety of reasons but regardless of the reason the outcome can be devastating to the patient, family, provider and institution (Intermec, 2010). Mislabeled specimens are not intentional and providers do not want harm to come to the patient, fortunately there are solutions that can help prevent this from happening. Organizations that are trying to achieve The Joint Commission’s 2017 National Patient Safety Goal of identifying patient’s correctly …show more content…
This can be costly to the patient and organization, uncomfortable for the patient and cause delays in treatment of the patient’s condition (Stein et al., 2011). Positive patient identification is a very important step when administering medications, treatments and diagnosis. By implementing barcoding technology clinicians are able to positively identify the patient and thus reduce the incident of errors, prevent unnecessary redraws of labs and prevent delays in treatments (Brown, Smith, & Sherfy, 2011). By using SoftID for positive patient identification the clinician is able to increase the safety of the patient. Collecting specimens by using barcoding technology the clinician is able to confirm that the right test is for the right patient and the right specimen (Intermec, 2010). Additionally, the benefits of bedside printing of specimen labels helps with unreadable labels since it eliminates the need for handwritten transcription, it automatically time stamps and dates the specimen removing human error and eliminates unlabeled specimens (Intermec, 2010). Since this system is already in place in the Maine Medical Center laboratory the product is a great addition and has a lower cost to implement since it only requires the bedside scanners, printers and a small amount of interface with EPIC (Vahman,
Introduction and Assessment
Patient safety is very important to the healthcare provider, healthcare facility or organization. One area that continues to be a safety issue is mislabeled or unlabeled specimens. Mislabeled specimens happen for a variety of reasons but regardless of the reason the outcome can be devastating to the patient, family, provider and institution (Intermec, 2010). Mislabeled specimens are not intentional and providers do not want harm to come to the patient, fortunately there are solutions that can help prevent this from happening. Organizations that are trying to achieve The Joint Commission’s 2017 National Patient Safety Goal of identifying patient’s correctly …show more content…
This can be costly to the patient and organization, uncomfortable for the patient and cause delays in treatment of the patient’s condition (Stein et al., 2011). Positive patient identification is a very important step when administering medications, treatments and diagnosis. By implementing barcoding technology clinicians are able to positively identify the patient and thus reduce the incident of errors, prevent unnecessary redraws of labs and prevent delays in treatments (Brown, Smith, & Sherfy, 2011). By using SoftID for positive patient identification the clinician is able to increase the safety of the patient. Collecting specimens by using barcoding technology the clinician is able to confirm that the right test is for the right patient and the right specimen (Intermec, 2010). Additionally, the benefits of bedside printing of specimen labels helps with unreadable labels since it eliminates the need for handwritten transcription, it automatically time stamps and dates the specimen removing human error and eliminates unlabeled specimens (Intermec, 2010). Since this system is already in place in the Maine Medical Center laboratory the product is a great addition and has a lower cost to implement since it only requires the bedside scanners, printers and a small amount of interface with EPIC (Vahman,