Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the
discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
General Instructions
Include the following sections:
1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all
questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
o Describe a current safety concern in your practice
environment.
o Explain one HIT that could be applied to address the
concern.
o Explain how it could be applied to enhance safety.
o Identify at least one possible unintended consequence of
adopting the HIT.
o Discuss at least one strategy for mitigating the unintended
consequence.
Answer:
Describe a current safety concern in your practice
environment.
Medication errors are one current safety issue in my practice
environment. Common medication errors in the clinical environment
include giving the patient medication without scanning the
medication, ignoring system alerts, clinicians placing orders in the
wrong patient's chart, not reading the medication label before
administration, administering medication without checking for
allergies, or carrying medication for two different patients at the same
time, or not documenting the medication after administration.
Explain one HIT that could be applied to address the
concern.
The HIT that can help with medication errors at the moment of
administration is a barcode-enabled point-of-care system. The
majority of medication errors in the hospital setting occur during
medication administration because the nurse did not scan the
medication before administration or overwrite the medication without
reading the system alert on the patient's chart. Most hospitals have
medication administration protocols that require scanning and
assessing the patient before medication administration.
Explain how it could be applied to enhance safety.
discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
General Instructions
Include the following sections:
1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all
questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
o Describe a current safety concern in your practice
environment.
o Explain one HIT that could be applied to address the
concern.
o Explain how it could be applied to enhance safety.
o Identify at least one possible unintended consequence of
adopting the HIT.
o Discuss at least one strategy for mitigating the unintended
consequence.
Answer:
Describe a current safety concern in your practice
environment.
Medication errors are one current safety issue in my practice
environment. Common medication errors in the clinical environment
include giving the patient medication without scanning the
medication, ignoring system alerts, clinicians placing orders in the
wrong patient's chart, not reading the medication label before
administration, administering medication without checking for
allergies, or carrying medication for two different patients at the same
time, or not documenting the medication after administration.
Explain one HIT that could be applied to address the
concern.
The HIT that can help with medication errors at the moment of
administration is a barcode-enabled point-of-care system. The
majority of medication errors in the hospital setting occur during
medication administration because the nurse did not scan the
medication before administration or overwrite the medication without
reading the system alert on the patient's chart. Most hospitals have
medication administration protocols that require scanning and
assessing the patient before medication administration.
Explain how it could be applied to enhance safety.
