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Volume 6 General Medicine: Open Access
ISSN: 2327-5146 Emergency Nursing 2018
Cancer Nursing 2018
July 16-17, 2018
July 16-17, 2018 | London, UK
26th CancerNursing&NursePractitionersConference
&
5 th Annual Congress on EmergencyNursing&CriticalCare
JOINT EVENT
Applying lean methods and team resource management to reduce medication errors in nurses of
emergency
Shuei-Chen Chin, Shu-Ru Lin and Shu-Chen Tseng
Mennonite Christian Hospital, Taiwan
The purpose of this project is to reduce medication errors in emergency nurse. From January 1, 2015 to December 31,
2016, the medication error of our emergency department was 0.02% (16/83,322). A survey of medication errors using
the eight types of waste analysis showed that the number of errors was 164 (32.2%). Causes include: waste of defects, waste
of inventory, waste of action, waste of processes and waste of human resources, therefore, create a project. The proposed
improvement plan is: Establish a standard procedure for emergency medication, the implementation of drug standard process
according to the rules, medication process is smooth; do not disturb bulletin board, references recommended to use "do not
disturb in medicine" sign to remind patients or their families to avoid mistakes nursing staff; conduct clinical teachers to teach
the standard course of medication consistency, apply human resources, invite emergency room clinical teachers and teaching
content and methods of consistency to discuss, for new employees to teach the relevant standard medication process, to avoid
their medication errors; establish a mutual care mechanism team, take the initiative to care for the hearty colleagues, to give
positive encouragement to discourse, and colleagues in the same class can remind each other and support each other, to create
praise more than criticism of the friendly workplace did reduce the medication error from 32.2% to 3.13%, which not only
achieved the goal of improvement, but also enhanced the patient's medication safety and also enabled the patients to obtain
good care quality.
Biography
Shuei-Chen Chin is a Head Nurse in Emergency department. She holds a Master's degree from Tzu Chi University in Taiwan. She has worked in intensive care units for
15 years and in emergency department for six years.
Shuei-Chen Chin et al., Gen Med (Los Angeles) 2018, Volume 6
DOI: 10.4172/2327-5146-C2-005