The issue of medication errors is one of the most relevant to the healthcare system problem. During the practicum, I observed that even professional clinicians could make dangerous for the patient’s safety errors due to the high pressure and multitask activities. Organizing an effective system workflow can be helpful in medication errors prevention. Particular scientific concepts and emerging technologies can improve the effective system workflow in nursing.
The specifically adapted communication system can significantly fasten the information exchange, decreasing medication errors risks. Thus, one of the technologies which can make nurses’ communication easier and faster is the clinical communication platform (Ajuwond et al., 2018). Another approach to enhance the nurses’ productivity and attentiveness through the system workflow development is the usage of electronic health records systems.
According to the practical research, such a system significantly alleviates the nurses’ work, allowing them to be more concentrated and make fewer mistakes (Abraham et al., 2017. The last concept which can be efficient in improving the system workflow in nursing is technologically-conditioned training using virtual reality (VR) (Chen et al., 2020). This scientific research proves that VR medical training increases the productiveness of nurses and reduces medication errors.
From my observation, I would like to emphasize that all three mentioned the medical organization applied concepts during the practicum experience. The VR technologies prepare nurses for the work in real-life conditions, while the electronic health records systems helped them manage a considerable flow of the data in practice. However, even though the clinical communication platform was used, the nurses lacked technological awareness and could not deal with the applications effectively. Speaking about approaching the problem of medication errors, I would offer to design the program to allow the nurses to increase their technological awareness and apply emerging technologies more productively. Staff training is a vital part of the effective system workflow administrating. Therefore, the medical organization should not overlook such an important factor as professionally-oriented technological awareness development.
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Abraham, P., DiPlotti, C., Han, JE., Honig, E., Martin, GS., Perez, S., & Rabinovich, M. (2017). Evaluation of medication errors with implementation of electronic health record technology in the medical intensive care unit. Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials, 9(1), 31–40. Web.
Chen, B., Chen, F., Ge, J., Leng, Y., Li, C., Sun, Z., & Wang, D. (2020). Effectiveness of virtual reality in nursing education. Med Internet Res, 22(9), 1–12. Web.