Beaumont hospital is a 1070 bed hospital, which includes inpatient and outpatient services. This includes an imaging center, cancer center, neuroscience center, research institute, a heart & vascular center, as well as, medical office building that house physicians’ private practices. Since September 2014, Beaumont Health System has initiated new operations and best practices. This includes an integration of electronic health records, supply chain improvements, and opportunities to improve quality of care and operations. Coordination of high quality patient care across all setting of care is also being implemented. The main objective of Beaumont hospital is to provide high quality, efficient, accessible services, in a caring environment
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However, computerized decision support has the potential to block extremely harmful errors. Training prescriber’s to be safe and designing effective computerized decision support to help, are very important in reducing medication errors. Therefore, Beaumont made medication error prevention vital for improving patient safety and quality departments worked together to initiate a medication barcoding system. This includes scanning incoming pharmaceutical products and training the nursing staff. According to (Ferner, 2012), computer-assisted prescribing can provide information through the use of decision support and enforce prescribing rules. Each Beaumont patient has a unique bar code that only exists on their wristband. This helps to protect the validity of the medication being given, as well as, positive patient identification. The system also alerts the nurse if a medication order has expired, has been discontinues, or if it’s the wrong medication or the wrong patient. This safety initiative helped to prevent a total of 23,500 possible drug …show more content…
At Beaumont, in the Intensive Care Unit, there was a report on the Central Line removal process which related to an air embolism in a patient. The critical care nursing council and ICU team members reviewed the current removal policies and made a system wide revision. This change impacts the length of stay for the patient because the patient needs to be assessed for 24 hours after the removal of a central line for signs of air embolism. Timely and correct removal of central lines is important for the patient’s safety. Each nursing unit at Beaumont updates the Quality Council on process improvements their unit has identified, researched, educated staff, changed practice, and measured
However, computerized decision support has the potential to block extremely harmful errors. Training prescriber’s to be safe and designing effective computerized decision support to help, are very important in reducing medication errors. Therefore, Beaumont made medication error prevention vital for improving patient safety and quality departments worked together to initiate a medication barcoding system. This includes scanning incoming pharmaceutical products and training the nursing staff. According to (Ferner, 2012), computer-assisted prescribing can provide information through the use of decision support and enforce prescribing rules. Each Beaumont patient has a unique bar code that only exists on their wristband. This helps to protect the validity of the medication being given, as well as, positive patient identification. The system also alerts the nurse if a medication order has expired, has been discontinues, or if it’s the wrong medication or the wrong patient. This safety initiative helped to prevent a total of 23,500 possible drug …show more content…
At Beaumont, in the Intensive Care Unit, there was a report on the Central Line removal process which related to an air embolism in a patient. The critical care nursing council and ICU team members reviewed the current removal policies and made a system wide revision. This change impacts the length of stay for the patient because the patient needs to be assessed for 24 hours after the removal of a central line for signs of air embolism. Timely and correct removal of central lines is important for the patient’s safety. Each nursing unit at Beaumont updates the Quality Council on process improvements their unit has identified, researched, educated staff, changed practice, and measured