HLT 308V Week # 1 Assignment: Risk Management Analysis; Part No. I Risk Management Plan and Audience

HLT 308V Week # 1 Assignment: Risk Management Analysis; Part No. I Risk Management Plan and Audience High alert medications and high risk processes that focus on the use of anticoagulants is the specific plan that was chosen for this report. The specific audience for this report is nursing staff, pharmacist and providers who will be administering or preparing high risk medications, specifically anticoagulants. This topic was chosen because of the high likelihood of hard that can be done when a patient is prescribed anticoagulant therapy, and the high rate of errors present in anticoagulant therapy. Firstly, a high alert medication are medications that can cause significant harm if subject to a medication error. The frequency that many of these medications are used contributes to the lack of proper safeguard use in hospitals which could contribute to the error rate. (Lu, Yu, Chen, Wang, Wu, & Tang, 2013). Although increased rate of errors is not necessarily a criterion for being classified as “high-alert” status, anticoagulants categories have been associated with more medication errors than any other medications, according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices(ISMP) (2014). Increased attention has been a focus of hospitals and accrediting bodies since 1999, when the US Institute of Medicine released the book To Err is Human- Building a Safer Health System (Lu et. al, 2013).