Bar Coding for Breast Milk
Evidence Based Nursing Criteria Evidence based practice (EBP) in nursing is the application and understanding of nursing practice that has been through rigorous research in order to apply the outcome for future professional nursing care. The accumulation of evidence is conducted and collected by nurses and other health care practitioners, the nurse’s actions are updated in response to current evidence (Grove, Gray, & Burns, 2015). A strict criterion is the cornerstone to EBP, which starts with the assessment of a patient’s problem related to care. Once the problem is identified, in this case, breast milk given to the wrong patient, the clinical question is created for evaluation. Extensive research is conducted …show more content…
Effective scholarship is important because it contributes to the advancement of nursing practice in a safe and effective manner. Many different factors contribute to effective scholarship, including positive peer evaluations of the work, recognition as a scholar in an identified area, and grants that are awarded in the area of scholarship. Each design is comes with its own set of values depending on the standards that were used to conduct the research. Experimental studies such as RCT (well designed randomized controlled trials) as well as, meta-analysis of experimental (RCT) and quasi-experimental studies, provide the strongest research evidence and can have the biggest impact on changing practice (Grove et al., 2015). In the research conducted on breast milk given to the wrong infant, the study was a quasi-experimental time series quality improvement initiatives with evidence-based interventions. The QI team used the tools from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Model for improvements and Six Sigma where they flow charted process and collection for validity (Oza-Frank et al., …show more content…
Although it may be unavoidable to completely eliminate errors given the heavy workload of nurses and the long hours they endure, the research suggests that errors can be decreased. Barcoding is a relatively new technology that is not only available for medication scanning, but also used in the scanning of breast milk in a NICU setting. Scanning medications or breast milk before it is administered to the patient allows the nurse to determine if this is the right patient for that medication, for effective administration, this step should be done immediately before giving it to the patient to decrease the incidence of errors. Having this extra step in place is another safety check to ensure the patient is receiving the correct dose. In the quality improvement project to decrease human milk errors in the NICU, the system was set up to catch 66 different error codes to track and analyze three different groups; human milk expiration, wrong milk to the wrong patient, and human milk preparation (Oza-Frank et al., 2017). This study revealed numerous ways to make an error after receiving the milk from the mother to the time that the milk was given to the patient. Most scanning systems match the patient with the bar code and don’t look at the preparation or
Evidence Based Nursing Criteria Evidence based practice (EBP) in nursing is the application and understanding of nursing practice that has been through rigorous research in order to apply the outcome for future professional nursing care. The accumulation of evidence is conducted and collected by nurses and other health care practitioners, the nurse’s actions are updated in response to current evidence (Grove, Gray, & Burns, 2015). A strict criterion is the cornerstone to EBP, which starts with the assessment of a patient’s problem related to care. Once the problem is identified, in this case, breast milk given to the wrong patient, the clinical question is created for evaluation. Extensive research is conducted …show more content…
Effective scholarship is important because it contributes to the advancement of nursing practice in a safe and effective manner. Many different factors contribute to effective scholarship, including positive peer evaluations of the work, recognition as a scholar in an identified area, and grants that are awarded in the area of scholarship. Each design is comes with its own set of values depending on the standards that were used to conduct the research. Experimental studies such as RCT (well designed randomized controlled trials) as well as, meta-analysis of experimental (RCT) and quasi-experimental studies, provide the strongest research evidence and can have the biggest impact on changing practice (Grove et al., 2015). In the research conducted on breast milk given to the wrong infant, the study was a quasi-experimental time series quality improvement initiatives with evidence-based interventions. The QI team used the tools from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Model for improvements and Six Sigma where they flow charted process and collection for validity (Oza-Frank et al., …show more content…
Although it may be unavoidable to completely eliminate errors given the heavy workload of nurses and the long hours they endure, the research suggests that errors can be decreased. Barcoding is a relatively new technology that is not only available for medication scanning, but also used in the scanning of breast milk in a NICU setting. Scanning medications or breast milk before it is administered to the patient allows the nurse to determine if this is the right patient for that medication, for effective administration, this step should be done immediately before giving it to the patient to decrease the incidence of errors. Having this extra step in place is another safety check to ensure the patient is receiving the correct dose. In the quality improvement project to decrease human milk errors in the NICU, the system was set up to catch 66 different error codes to track and analyze three different groups; human milk expiration, wrong milk to the wrong patient, and human milk preparation (Oza-Frank et al., 2017). This study revealed numerous ways to make an error after receiving the milk from the mother to the time that the milk was given to the patient. Most scanning systems match the patient with the bar code and don’t look at the preparation or