Patient Interruption

Interruptions decrease the efficiency of medication process in the workflow. When the interruption occurs during the medication process it could lead to the patient risks or death. In medication administration, nurses are more prone to be interrupted in medication process. It is relevant to the nurses to provide the best patient safe care and to avoid patient’s detriment Interruption could be long or short terms in health care system. However, there are several strategies to eliminate interruption during the medication administration. The nurses should be mindful of the patient schedule in every shift to avoid patient interruption during the medication process. For example, they should know when the patient is leaving the hospital for laboratory examination. Nurses should turn off their cell before the medication preparation. The interruption may be lower during the night time when some patient is sleeping. Corroborating a free interruption symbol in a medication …show more content…
Progressive interruptions may also come from the machines such as cardiac monitors, intravenous pumps, computer and vital sign machine. Moreover, when the patient is calling the nurse for help will be the drawback for the medication process. Again when the physician informing the nurse to update the patient information upon medication process would result as an interruption. Unavailability of the medication supply when ordered by the physician. Time is another barrier in medication interruption. For example, the nurse may not be able to meet the time when the medication should be administered to the patient. When nurses are being over work, they may become burnout which will affect the medication administration. Lack of proper nursing education in medication could be an interruption. The work factories near the hospital would be the barrier to medication interruptions because they generate extremely