Introduction
Patient care technology is a part of the nursing care process that will immediately impact how nurses perform their jobs in the future. An array of important issues is developed into the implementation of a new technology; safety, cost, quality, and efficiency of health care for a smooth transition into the workplace. While some technologies are helpful to the patients, others may take away and distract a nurse from using their five senses that they relied on before advanced technology became available. Consequently, bar coding breast milk is a relatively technology that is new to nursing, following the lead of medication scanning. Best practice in the NICU world is showing positive results with bedside errors with the wrong …show more content…
In order to express and understand the measurements of a patient, we need to measure them in two different categories, direct measurements involving concrete values and indirect measurements are abstract concepts (Grove, Gray, & Burns, 2015). The direct measure of scanning the milk and watching it go to the correct patient is easy to track, however, the indirect measure of what is getting mixed into the milk in addition to the expiration of the milk are two difficult areas to track when they are not a part of the barcode label. Research by Steele and Bixby (2014) suggests that during the first six months of breast milk scanning, 55 attempts to feed the wrong milk to the wrong patient and 127 attempts to feed expired milk were prevented, ultimately decreasing the incidence of errors in this unit (Steele & Bixby, 2014). However, errors still exist according to Oza-Frank et al., (2017) with the increase of human milk feedings comes the increase in the chances for human errors, patients and families should be able to rely on the process of this medical care, therefore, more efforts are needed to disseminate strategies to eliminate these administration errors. Bar coding is another step in checking the breast milk, however, …show more content…
Medication errors, including, breast milk errors are at the forefront of safety in hospitals, the ethical implications of giving the wrong breast milk to a patient comes with a multitude of problems and health issues for the patient. Recent data suggests that when a bedside scanner and a centralized area for mixing the milk scan medications or breast milk, then errors are decreased to the patient. Oza-Frank, et al., (2017) states in their study, that the two most important interventions for decreasing errors of breast milk administration, is bedside scanners and hiring staff dedicated to handling
Patient care technology is a part of the nursing care process that will immediately impact how nurses perform their jobs in the future. An array of important issues is developed into the implementation of a new technology; safety, cost, quality, and efficiency of health care for a smooth transition into the workplace. While some technologies are helpful to the patients, others may take away and distract a nurse from using their five senses that they relied on before advanced technology became available. Consequently, bar coding breast milk is a relatively technology that is new to nursing, following the lead of medication scanning. Best practice in the NICU world is showing positive results with bedside errors with the wrong …show more content…
In order to express and understand the measurements of a patient, we need to measure them in two different categories, direct measurements involving concrete values and indirect measurements are abstract concepts (Grove, Gray, & Burns, 2015). The direct measure of scanning the milk and watching it go to the correct patient is easy to track, however, the indirect measure of what is getting mixed into the milk in addition to the expiration of the milk are two difficult areas to track when they are not a part of the barcode label. Research by Steele and Bixby (2014) suggests that during the first six months of breast milk scanning, 55 attempts to feed the wrong milk to the wrong patient and 127 attempts to feed expired milk were prevented, ultimately decreasing the incidence of errors in this unit (Steele & Bixby, 2014). However, errors still exist according to Oza-Frank et al., (2017) with the increase of human milk feedings comes the increase in the chances for human errors, patients and families should be able to rely on the process of this medical care, therefore, more efforts are needed to disseminate strategies to eliminate these administration errors. Bar coding is another step in checking the breast milk, however, …show more content…
Medication errors, including, breast milk errors are at the forefront of safety in hospitals, the ethical implications of giving the wrong breast milk to a patient comes with a multitude of problems and health issues for the patient. Recent data suggests that when a bedside scanner and a centralized area for mixing the milk scan medications or breast milk, then errors are decreased to the patient. Oza-Frank, et al., (2017) states in their study, that the two most important interventions for decreasing errors of breast milk administration, is bedside scanners and hiring staff dedicated to handling