Workaround In Nursing

Everyday nurses come in contact with and juggle a hand full of new patients. Being in a fast-paced environment, nurses strive their best to complete their assignments and tasks at hand. The constant pressure to take care of patients while getting them out of the door in a timely manner leads to nursing workaround. Workarounds are observed or described as behaviors that in a way “fix” a hindrance to meet an expected goal or achieve it faster in a way boost a nurse’s speed in patient care. The clinical dilemma of nursing workaround leads to a downfall in patient safety. The problem of workaround leads to nurses not scanning a patient’s wristband before medication delivery or performing nursing interventions. Caring and treating patients in
Misidentification of patients can occur in any location where healthcare is provided, such as hospital wards and outpatient clinics, laboratory and imaging departments and in primary healthcare clinics. The consequences of patient misidentification can result in inappropriate management including investigations, diagnosis and treatment (Dhatt, 2011). The integration of the Epic software in hospitals and healthcare settings has made scanning a patient’s wristband the epitome of opening a patient’s chart to utilize for documentation the delivery of medications to the correct patient. This eliminates the workaround of nurses when multiple medications are scanned at the same time for various
Search Strategy Search terms used to find evidence-based articles and journals for this paper include “patient’s wristbands”, “patient barcode”, and “patient identifiers”. The databases utilized in finding appropriate articles and journals were on library.devry.edu. These specific databases include EBSCOHost, CINAHL Plus, and Health Source. However, the journals found on EBSCOHost to be most beneficial to the success of my paper. Refinements made in choosing these specific articles were making sure they were “peer-reviewed” and credible. As the search was conducted, these two articles were specifically chosen to represent the basis of the paper because they represent all the essential components of the PICOT question asked in the clinical question. The two most relevant and helpful articles used to provide guidance for my team’s group work include: Designing evidence-based patient safety interventions: the case of the UK’s National Health Service hospital wristbands and Patient safety: patient identification wristband