The Effect of Computerizing Physician Orders to Prevent Medication Errors Background: Medication errors at the time of hospital admissions and discharges are common and can lead to preventable errors. The objection of this paper is to show how computerizing physician orders can help alleviate that problem and reduce it remarkably. Problem: The pt. was given the wrong dosage of 2 weeks supply of medication. Solution: Computerizing Physician Order Entry Proposed Improvement Plan: I choose this cause because it happen so often at my facility that pts.
Has one ever wondered if these medications are sanitary and sterile. The health care field is widely spread and its main concept is cleanliness to reduce infections, diseases and disorders. We must start the process of cleanliness with the environment and of our surroundings to prevent the spread and cause of these illnesses. The counters, credit card machine and the handling of money are not the only contaminated items a person deals with when in these facilities. Pills are dropped on the floor, touched by pharmacists and technicians hands.
Paper charting cannot effectively be used and searched to follow, examine, and or chart numerous clinical processes and medical information. Paper filing also cannot be saved or copied easily off the premises. Doctor’s orders and any corresponding information, such as labs and prescriptions, can be handed out, stored, and looked after more effectively in an electronic medical record system. Electronic medical records can also improve the quality of care for the patient by combining and joining together the patient information that is vital in quality of care. Electronic medical records “provide admitting staff, physicians, and other care giving and business professionals’ appropriate access to common patient data while maintaining privacy requirements” ("Benefits of EMR", 2003, figure 1).
Cerner System | Cerner Software | An upgrade to Technology in the Health Field | | Yalena A. Walker | 9/29/2014 | HCS/212 Summary: Electronic Health Records and information have become vital to the Health care field where now there are software companies implementing the structure of having a patient’s health information at the tip of your fingertips. | Since the early years, technology in the health care field has grown tremendously. From updates to Facilities. Medical equipment, Doctors, and Nurses, the health care field has become a billion dollar industry. I have been with the health care field for over 15 years, have seen many changes in our technology.
The pharmacist job is primarily based in management and decision making, which is very important, but the technician does the work that makes the pharmacy run. The thing I was most surprised to learn was that a technician can authorize refill orders without the help of the pharmacist. Doing this assignment really helped me understand what role I will be playing in the pharmacy as a technician and as, hopefully, a pharmacist. I didn’t truly understand what the specific roles of each member of the pharmacy staff where until this assignment but now I feel like I do. Bibliography About Pharmacy Technicians.
One of the many great things to find out when going into this profession is that the options are narrowed but are very vast and gives one the option to go further in this field. The last semester of the last year in high school, I enrolled myself into a co-op program to explore my future dream job. I was given the opportunity to work at a dental office by the name of Dentistry at Vitality. Throughout the four months working at the office, I’ve gained lots of experience and learned a lot. The co-op experience helped in exploring this field and seeing how it is in the real world.
They kept checking the patient’s blood pressure too. At the conclusion of the second surgery, the surgeon explained to me that sometimes when an A.V. Fistula is created it does not take. He explained that the reason he creates the A.V. Fistula in the wrist is because they do usually take in this location and it reduces the risk of the patient having to go back in the hospital for more surgery.
Upon receiving a controlled prescription, the pharmacist will also call other pharmacies to check a patient history and then call the patient’s insurance carrier, if one is available, to check even further. This is a very time consuming process that could be made less extensive if the Medicaid lock-in program was a requirement. The doctors would only have one pharmacy to contact and the pharmacy would only have to check their own records to make sure the patient was due for the medication. The lock-in program would allow the doctors and pharmacists to do their job more effectively and use their time more wisely for patients who need genuine
In this paper the subject being looked at are patients that are mechanically ventilated. The intervention is performing oral care and hygiene whether it is mechanical or pharmacological intervention. The action of actually performing these and the frequency in which they are performed is what is being compared to no oral cares. The outcome is to decrease the rates for developing VAP (article 5,1,2,3, and 4). VAP is a major threat to patients receiving mechanical ventilation in hospitals and prevention and control of VAP remains a primary concern.
Samantha Wert Midterm Project HS100-03 Introduction to Health Science Professor Elizabeth Falls Kaplan University Medical Assisting A medical assistant is very well known in the doctors’ offices and clinics in this day and age. They are very common in doctors’ offices while nurses are mainly found in hospitals. The job outlook of medical assistants between 2012 and 2022 will increase by 29% (Bureau of Labor). The average yearly wage was around $30,000 in May of 2012 (Bureau of Labor). When I looked through the information about medical assisting and found the information that I did, I found out that I truly want to become a medical assistant.