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    This document describes an assignment to identify a safety issue in healthcare requiring change to improve patient care. Students were asked to examine qualitative and quantitative data on patient identification errors during phlebotomy and propose solutions. The assignment addressed Joint Commission safety goals and required assessing current policies, suggesting improvement strategies, and establishing outcome measures to evaluate the effectiveness of changes in promoting safe and high quality care.

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    Joint Commission Safety/Performance Improvement & Change Theory

    NUR 490: Nurse Leadership


    Phlebotomy and Patient Identification Group Paper

    Purpose of the Assignment


    To identify a safety issue within a health care organization that needs to change in order
    to promote better delivery of patient care; to demonstrate an ability to collaboratively
    problem-solve in an interdisciplinary environment while working towards resolution of a
    common problem.
    Approach to the Assignment
    The Joint Commissions (TJC) establishes yearly patient safety goals to address
    discrepancies in providing safe care to patients. Safety goal NPS.01.01.01 establishes the
    need to identify patients correctly. This focus of this paper was to examine the
    qualitative and quantitative data that leads to identification errors. The paper also uses
    data analysis to find possible solutions to prevent identification errors.
    Reason for Inclusion
    This assignment was important in understanding the contributing factors that leads to
    identification errors. Patient safety is the single most important component of patient care
    and all interventions and interactions should be centered on it.
    Nursing Practice

    Performs direct and indirect therapeutic interventions that incorporate principles of


    quality management and proper safety techniques based upon assessment findings.

    This assignment necessitated performing an assessment of qualitative and quantitative


    data that contributed to a breakdown in patient identification, and specifically during
    phlebotomy. Most hospitals have policies and procedures in place guided by the Joint
    Commission to ensure proper identification of patients. This assignment suggested
    strategies to improve patient identification based on our assessment findings.

    Establishes and/or utilizes outcome measures to evaluate the effectiveness of care.

    This assignment established four ways to measure effectiveness of care: the trainee's
    reaction to the training can be evaluated; the amount of learning can be assessed with a
    questionnaire, at least twenty-four hours after the education occurred; evaluating
    behavioral change; and assessment of the organizational impact of the education
    including cost-effectiveness.
    Research

    Evaluates research that focuses on the efficacy and effectiveness of nursing


    interventions.

    This assignment proposed audits and data collection on patient identification and wrongpatient phlebotomy errors to monitor success in proposed outcome measures.

    Share research findings with colleagues.

    This assignment was a group project that required sharing and compilation of information to
    complete the paper.
    Leadership

    Delegates and supervises the nursing care given by others while retaining the
    accountability for the quality of care given to the patient.

    This assignment specifically recognizes that leadership plays an important role in the
    success of the performance improvement strategies for safe patient care and in reaching
    the end goal of providing the highest quality of comprehensive patient care.
    Professionalism

    Differentiates between general, institutional, and specialty-specific standards of


    practice to guide nursing care.

    This assignment references hospital-based policies and Joint Commission policies of


    healthcare. The Joint Commission is the regulatory and compliance organization that
    regulates the general guidelines a hospital must maintain. The hospital must then define
    their policies and protocols, and in this assignment the use of patient identifiers when
    drawing blood.

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