Improving Patient Safety in Medicine Dispensing

This report discusses the importance of patient safety in medicine dispensing and explores ways to improve it. It highlights the challenges and requirements of dispensing medicines for better patient care.

Improving patient safety
whilst dispensing medicine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
Dispensing of medicine can be defined as process of preparing and giving the drug to a
named a person on the basis of prescription. It is to be consider as program or event to improve
rational use which have often been concentrated on ensuring habits of prescription. It is
overlooking dispensing and patient’s use of medicines. To avoid the drug interaction and its
adverse side effect (Aboneh and et.al., 2020). Sometimes, it has been strictly follow the
regulation on dispense of drug which required. Moreover, treatment of condition such as chronic
diseases which require to intake of medication but it highly differ from one patient to another.
Pharmacists allows to follow the regulation and conduct multiple test, afterwards, it has been
represented the report to other physician but they do not authorised to prescribed. In this way,
pharmacies are necessary to maintain or control the record of all medicine dispensed (Paulino,
Thomas and Cooper, 2019). In order to keep record of any type of intervention which has made,
judge on the basis of certain aspects. The British National formulary is responsible for
distribution of document related medication to community and other healthcare staff members.
Patient safety refers to preventing the errors when it comes to their entire care provided by
medical professional. It means that preventing adverse reaction when a person take such
medications. It can happen for variety of reason where patient may not take care about their
safety and security (Carayon and Wooldridge, 2020). They were not taking the medication
according to the instruction of professional. In this way, it may fail to make correct diagnosis,
will change their medication as per requirements. Initially, professional are validated the
prescription and make sure that understanding the overall concept of dispensing medicines.
The pharmacists has performed the significant role which has proven to improve various
result or outcome in regards of patient health condition. Sometimes, it may include patient
safety, improved diseases, drugs therapy management, improve quality of life. WHO has been
developed the conceptual framework in order to build an effective standardized taxonomy for
safety of patient (Galt, Fuji and Shah, 2019). Pharmacist have a crucial system level role in term
of planning and also leading medication safety program or event which initiatives towards health
care improvement. It may be include the risk specific protocol for providing high alert –
medications in order to identify, evaluating high risk processes (Paulino, Thomas and Cooper,
2019). The complexity of medication is that prescribing or delivering process which make it
difficult to give better advantage, effect of pharmacist on adverse result or outcome directly but
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the involvement has been representing the reduce errors. In order to enhance the patient
monitoring across different settings.
As medical professional has delivered the better health care service by using dispending of
medicine. In order to find out the complex nature of medication and its increase errors prone
situation. During prescribing process, it should be increased the errors in the process
approximately 5% to 7% in prescriptions which depending on the setting (Holmström and et.al.,
2019). Moreover, this type of medication errors reports to health care system where they can
easily monitor and analysed current situation. According to report, it has been identified that
16% of actual patient harm and 0.8% resulted in the death or other server harmful condition
(Paulino, Thomas and Cooper, 2019). However, there are various unintended discrepancies in
patient discharged from the hospitals. In this way, it is affecting the 43% of prescription in
primary care (Paulino, Thomas and Cooper, 2019). The problem with medicine is that after
hospital discharge of patient that associated with adverse health consequences.
The research project will describe about the quality improvement event in patient safety
through medication. The project is focused on the dispending medicines within community
pharmacy which mainly assumed as a process for required the highly quality of reliability. The
pharmacy team will be combined with non-technical skills, clinical and technical in which
providing the better quality of medicines. These are becoming safe and effective for patients. The
research estimate that approximately 3.32% of dispensed item may include as an error (Paulino,
Thomas and Cooper, 2019). Although it can be identified the level of accuracy, it could be
assumed to be very high, errors that have developed as serious consequences among patient. The
most of pharmacists are responsible for recognising the patient safety as well as health. The
research project has been developed the system which provide as guard against the errors in
order to reduce their level. The report will discuss about the use of dispending medicines where
how they will support for patient in term of safety. Furthermore, it also facilitate the best quality
of improvement methodology.
Aim
The main aim of this report is “To Analyse ways in which Patient safety can be improved
whilst dispensing medicines.”
Objectives
Main objectives of this report are:
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 To analyse need and requirement of dispensing medicines
 To evaluate role of dispensing medicines in patient safety.
 To analyses ways in which dispensing medicines can be focused upon in order to improve
patient safety.
 To identify major challenges associated with provision of dispensing medicines to patients.
Project Questions
Main project questions of this report are:
 What are the need and requirement of dispensing medicines?
 What is the main role of dispensing medicines in patient safety?
 What are the ways in which dispensing medicines can be focused upon in order to improve
patient safety?
 What are the major challenges associated with provision of dispensing medicines to patients?
Background
In health care services it is necessary to provide high quality services to patients. Also, there is
need to ensure patient safety so that they are diagnose properly. There are several types of risk
which can occur in it and this can lead to affect on patient health. Basically, in dispensing of
medicine there is improvement required as here patient needs differ from one another and there
are many other risk which can arise. Besides that, it is found that there no proper procedure of
dispensing medicine. Hence, patient safety is in danger. is very important to ensure patient safety
in hospital. For a health care worker patient safety is his or her priority role and responsibility.
There are many ways through which patient safety is ensured. It depends on process or method
which is followed by health professionals. Moreover, there are many ways safety is managed and
ensured. Patient safety consists of various aspects which are to be followed such as medicine,
health, cleanliness, etc these all measures are to be taken in regard of keeping patient safety.
Also, it is essential to improve patient safety as well so that they are able to recover quickly. The
improvement needs to be identified so that accordingly changes are made. It highly depends on
health care professional that how patient safety is enhanced. However, for this as well there are
many ways or method which can be implemented. It is necessary to find out and implement
those so that safety is improved.
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Improving patient safety is consider as key aspects in the hospital setting and other
pharmacists that have been exploring the technologies. In order to achieve their specific goal and
objective. There is no doubt that medication can enhance the efficiency or distribution but their
capacity to reduce the medication errors (Seaton and et.al., 2019). It has depends on the various
factor which including implement the system. Dispensing of medicine is consider as a process
which help for providing flexibility, reliability but pharmacy has little control. It has
accomplished by setting up clinical indication at the time of specific drugs. It facilitate the
medical professional to improve the accessibility on the patient care service. In particularly, it
has been developed the emergency case where patient extremely suffered from against diseases.
In recently, many countries recommend or require hospitals to implement the concept of
medication reconciliation, transfer and also discharge for patient after reducing the medication
errors. The discharge reconciliation has been considered as highest priority as expected to
minimize risk of adverse program caused by failure to interact with changes. It has made in the
healthcare community which produced the drugs, medicines (Shah, Galt and Fuji, 2019). Indeed,
there are discrepancies in the community where medical professional use medication while
increasing the risk of adverse event.
In past decade, Pharmacy professional has been invented the concept of dispensing
medicine that consider as a process but require reliability. In this way, it has developed the safe
guard against errors. In order to minimize risk of errors and give better facilities of patient in
term of heath care safety (Shah, Galt and Fuji, 2019). On the other hand, it has been estimated
the dispending errors rate in hospitals approximately 0.02% to 2.7% of dispensed medicine
(Shah, Galt and Fuji, 2019). The pharmacy community also focused on the estimation which has
been changed over past years. In 2007, there are 48-million prescriptions addressed and also
dispensed in the primary care. As a result, it has been adjusted within 5,223 medication errors
reports being submitted by NRLS (national reporting and leading system). Therefore, various
pharmacies community figure out the situation or condition where identified the expected result
from research in error rates.
As focused on the different factors such as mental overload, distraction and also
dispending with categorized attention as per condition in which increase the dispensing error
rates. The condition highlight the significance of human factor in community pharmacy practice.
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Initially, professional has identified the current health condition of patient and then move to use
dispending medication for providing better health care services (Paulino, Thomas and Cooper,
2019). Human factor related to their health care which consider as approach to enhance clinical
performance through understanding the effect of team work, task, culture and equipment (Shah,
Galt and Fuji, 2019). These are helping for determine the behavior as well as abilities of patient.
It has foundations in term of physiology, psychology and sociology and understanding why
errors has made and how to prevent them. National healthcare system has been slow to follow
the safety aspects during critical condition while adapting the human factor. In particularly so in
primary care. On the other hand, Pharmacies community being set up their project while contract
with NHS. In order to recognize and isolated in term of primary care which become consequence
of contractual obligation.
Since, medication orders are being dispensed and then delivered for medical professional.
In certain circumstances and setting by both pharmacists and nurses which involved in the
process of dispending (Shah, Galt and Fuji, 2019). They have been predominately examined the
role of dispending medicines where pharmacist plays important role in preventing the prescribing
errors. During past years, it has examined the medication errors, identifying the rate of 60%
mainly in the form of wrong rate, time and dose. In this way, it has identified the death caused by
medication errors which has reported to FDA from 1993 to 1998 (Shah, Galt and Fuji, 2019).
One of the most challenging as well as time-consuming aspects of medication
reconciliation which become reliable documenting the community drugs. In order to put extra
efforts for improving the efficiencies and several creating solution that have been implemented.
Afterwards, it has been prescribed in the community and further doing more testing. By using
drug and drop function, clinicians, pharmacists that have developed the community drugs and list
in the consultation with different patients. These type of initiative have impact on the process of
community drug listing. In order to find out that 75% patient discharged from hospitals (Paulino,
Thomas and Cooper, 2019). It is the best process of medical dispensing where selecting right
drug for patient on the basis of requirement as well need. There are several challenges as well
which is faced by nurse and doctors in providing medicine. This may be that due to change in
patients needs they have to give them
METHODOLOGY
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Project plan
Project plan can be defined as an important document that majorly contains main scope
and objective of the project. It is also represented in the form of Gantt chart. It is one of the most
effective way with the help of which minute project details can be communicated to stakeholders
(Varajão, Colomo-Palacios and Silva, 2017). It is one of the most important process of project
management which helps in identifying overall output of project planning process. There are
various kinds of frameworks or models that can work as a fundamental knowledge for managing
and planning a project. One of the main frameworks that can be used for project planning is
PMBOK. It works as a fundamental knowledge for project planning and management of a
project. There are 10 knowledge areas of PMBOK but major knowledge areas that together helps
in effective planning are cost, scope, quality required, time duration, communication, resources
required and risk associated with the project.
Figure 1 main aspects of project plan
Cost: Cost is one of the major and most important part of a project that should be focused upon
within a project (Abyad, 2018). It is important for the project manager to estimate and define
overall cost associated with the project in which whole project will be completed. This cost
includes, cost of resources, risk management and mitigation and many more. Cost associated
with a project arises need of defining and controlling project cost in a timely manner for the
success of the project this is majorly because every project consumes resources, in order to
maintain value of the project investment required to be done in a project is required to be
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maintained. Cost planning of a project includes resource planning, cost estimating, budgeting,
and control. Cost associated with this project is £500.
Scope: Every project is required to have defined paraments or scope by defining project goal,
task, deadlines, cost etc. After defining overall scope of the project, this scope is further broken
down into sub- parts and is managed in a proper manner with the help of work breakdown
structure or WBS (Gonçalves and et. al., 2017). Management and planning of a scope majorly
includes planning, definition, WBS, verification and control. For this project, project manager
will focus upon secondary qualitative research. Main scope of this project is collection of all the
secondary information in order to identify ways in which Patient safety can be improved whilst
dispensing medicines.
Quality required: One of the most important aspect of a project without which defined value of
the project cannot be achieved is planning and maintenance of overall quality of the project.
Each and every project involves work products or deliverables within a project. Meeting of these
deliverables as per the project objectives helps in maintaining overall quality of the project.
Maintenance of a performance standard within a project helps in maintaining high quality of a
project (Jamali and Oveisi, 2016). Quality of a project majorly revolves around three major
aspects that are: quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control. Quality maintenance of
a project can only be done by maintaining use of reliable and appropriate data or information. In
order to maintain overall quality of this project all the secondary information or data has been
collected from authentic and reliable data sources. Most of the articles, research data, journals
etc. have been collected from Google scholar and are not more than 5 years old.
Time duration: A proper and effective project plan also have defined time period in which
whole project will be completed (Gonçalves and Von Wangenheim, 2016). This time schedule
includes defined beginning and a definite ending date. In order to complete the project in defined
time period it is important to manage scheduled time as per the overall schedule of the project by
bifurcating and dividing time period for all the sub tasks which further helps in implementing
whole project in a timely manner. management and planning of time schedule of the project
includes definition, sequencing, resource and duration estimating, schedule development, and
schedule control. The overall time duration required to complete this project is 8 weeks.
Communication: Another important aspect of project planning is communication which can
become one of the main reasons for success or failure of a project. Effective communication plan
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helps in maintaining proper flow of information among all internal and external stakeholders of a
project (Varajão, Colomo-Palacios and Silva, 2017). It is important to develop a communication
plan for project because a project comes into touch of various people both directly and indirectly
which can impact final outcome of a project. Communication plan for a project majorly focuses
upon information distribution, stakeholder management and performance reporting. In order to
maintain proper and effective communication in this project weekly meetings after completion of
every milestone was conducted. In these meetings of the main stakeholders of the project were
involved in which current progress of the project, requirements, next milestone required to be
achieved, issues faced and solution to it were discussed in detailed manner.
Resources required: Another important aspect of project planning is resources required within a
project. Without availability of proper and effective resources it becomes quite difficult for a
project manager to complete a project in a timely manner. There were two major type of
resources used in this project, first was secondary resources for collection of secondary data or
information from newspapers, articles, books, scholar papers and many more. And second type
of resources required were human resource. Management and planning of human resources
helped in completing the project in a proper manner, identifying issues associated with the
project and finding solution for the project in a proper manner. Secondary resources were used
for collection of data or information related to identification of ways in which Patient safety can
be improved whilst dispensing medicines.
Risk: One of the most important aspect of project planning is risk identification and management
without which success chances of a project can reduce and it can move towards failure. It is
important for project manager to identify risk associated with project that can arise and impact
overall success of a project. There are various kinds of unexpected events that can be faced by
team members of a project. Some of the most comm type of risk identified that can occur within
this project are: Communication gap, Miss management, Loss of leadership control and sudden
budget rise. Due to communication gap project requirements cannot be communicated within all
stakeholders in a proper manner. miss management is one of the main risks that can become
main reason of project failure. Loss of leadership is a common risk that can occur within a proper
at any time. In order to reduce changes of occurring of this project it is important for leaders to
adopt effective leadership style which is suitable for the project. This will help in reducing
changes of occurring of this risk. There are various reasons because of which rise in budget risk
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can occur. It is important to continuously monitor and control scope of the project so that rise in
budget risk can be controlled or mitigated.
These are some of the main factors that are required to be focused upon in project
planning. These aspects helps the project manager in planning project so that it is comes in a
proper manner within defined scope, time, cost and quality. This proposed project plan will not
only help in implementation of a project but will also help in time to time evolution of the
project. For this PMBOK framework has been used because it helps in including all the main and
important aspects of a project.
Gantt chart
Gantt chart can be simply defined as a visual view of all the task and activities of a
project schedule within the defined duration of time. It helps in defining milestones of sub- task
that are required to be achieved. It also helps the project manager to manage overall size of the
project in a proper manner. not only this, it also helps in identifying start and end date of a
project with a simple visual view.
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Conclusion
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Review and
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Impact of change
In the context of patient safety it can be said that it plays an important role as it prevents patients
and all staff against injury and workplace accident which may sometimes cause death. So, it is
important for healthcare organizations to implement some effective safety measurement tools
and policies as well and make sure that all patients and staff members are following all
guidelines of policies (Mbonye and et.al., 2016). This change and an effective leadership
program can have several changes within an organization. Dispensing process of medicines in
patient safety refers a procedure of preparing as well as giving medicine to a named person on
the basis of prescription. This change and an effective patient safety can have several changes
which include:
Improve image: When healthcare organizations use effective tools of safety measurement
then they are more likely to prevent their patients and all involved members which motivate
them. Motivated and valued employees focus on providing effective and qualitative services to
patient which improve image of the company. The less injury and accidents happen in an
organization the more images it improves.
Reducing staff turnover; When an organization or healthcare companies focus on safety of
patients and staff then they are more likely to stay with the company and support companies in
accomplishing their goals. One of the main reasons of staff turnover in healthcare organization is
poor quality of services, dealing with critical patients, work load and lack of workplace safety.
Workplace and patients safety encourage staff members to concentrate on their functions and it
makes them feel pleased at workplace (Cole and Paithankar, 2018). So, it can be said that this is
one of the main positive impact of making changes within an organization.
Improve quality of services: It is one of the main aims of all healthcare organizations is to
improve healthcare services to patients and improve their health in a timely and effective
manner. They also want to reduce patients stay at hospitals and healthcare organizations because
it indicates that patients are receiving effective and qualitative healthcare services. When
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organizations focus on safety whilst dispensing medicines then they are more likely to make
patients feel valued and they also cooperate all staff members in improving healthcare services.
These improvement and cooperation improve patients’ health. So, it can be said that patent safety
whilst dispensing medicines can have several positive effects (Geary and Roussel, 2016).
An effective leadership program also plays an important role in improving safety as they
guide all members in performing their functions. It allows members in reducing errors in their
functions and healthcare services which improve quality of healthcare services given to patients.
An effective leadership program also allow patients in making feel valued because by making
use of abilities and skills, an effective leader try to interact with patients and make them feel
comfortable in communicating and sharing their all problems. Knowing all problems from
patients is important as it helps in selecting effective treatments and improving health.
Reflective summary
It is very important to ensure patient safety in hospital. For a health care worker patient safety is
his or her priority role and responsibility. There are many ways through which patient safety is
ensured. It depends on process or method which is followed by health professionals. Moreover,
there are many ways safety is managed and ensured. Patient safety consists of various aspects
which are to be followed such as medicine, health, cleanliness, etc these all measures are to be
taken in regard of keeping patient safety. Also, it is essential to improve patient safety as well so
that they are able to recover quickly. The improvement needs to be identified so that accordingly
changes are made. It highly depends on health care professional that how patient safety is
enhanced. However, for this as well there are many ways or method which can be implemented.
It is necessary to find out and implement those so that safety is improved.
I was working as a nurse senior executive in a hospital of UK since past 2-3 years. Under my
supervision i was handling a team of 4-5 nurse assistant who was working in same department.
We were given role to provide medicine to patients and maintain their safety. Also, role was to
give medicine to them as prescribed by doctor or health professionals. I was leading the team and
we work together to achieve goals and objectives of patients safety. In my view i think that
patient safety is most important while providing care services to them. This is because if safety is
not maintained then there is no positive result of providing care services to them. Thus, as a
nurse i think that our priority to maintain and ensure proper safety of patients. It is because we
are the one who are in regular touch with them and are able to identify their needs. But while
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working as a nurse i analysed the safety can be improved while dispensing them medicine. This
is most crucial task as there is high risk involved in it. Besides that, if medicine dispensed is
wrong then it can highly impact on patient health. Apart from it, medicine dispensed is written as
per needs of patients and given by doctor. Therefore, it has to be given with proper attention and
in effective way so that there is no mistake in it. This is because i noticed that sometimes
medicine dispensed is not given as per proper procedure. So, it has resulted in leading to major
consequences. Along with it, medicine dispensed is wrongly given and has showsn negative
outcomes on health of patients. In addition to it, i found that there is gap in between this
procedure. So, it can led to change in things and certain consequences. Sometimes, it has been
strictly follow the regulation on dispense of drug which required. Moreover, treatment of
condition such as chronic diseases which require to intake of medication but it highly differ from
one patient to another. Pharmacists allows to follow the regulation and conduct multiple test,
afterwards, it has been represented the report to other physician but they do not authorised to
prescribed.
Thus, i think that there is need to improve safety in this as it will help in making things easy and
providing care to patients as per medicine prescribed by doctor. Moreover, i think that this area is
most crucial in it as many times medicine prescribed is not given as per needs of patients. So, i
was leader in hospital where i work with 4-5 nurse assistant. I realized that there exists a gap in
as medicine dispensed was not proper. So, there occurred certain issues due to which patient
safety was not proper. Due to it there may rise in chance of occuring of certain consequences that
may lead to impacting on patient health. Therefore, as leader i found that there are several ways
through which it can be improved. This will highly benefit in maintaining safety and ensuring
that medicine dispensed is according ot needs of patient. So, i think that first way to change in by
creating or forming a proper procedure or process through which this entire process is done. It
will be highly useful in giving insight to nurse assistant and me that how to follow this procedure
and provide higb quality care services to them without any high risk. Besides that, with help of
procedure it will be easy to get things done in effective way and dispensing medicine as per
patient needs. However, it will remove confusion among nurse staff as well ss there are many
patients with different medicine needs. In addition to it, as a leader i will be able to apply various
types of leadership style in order to guide them. It will be easy for me to direct them that how
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they can follow this procedure and ensure patient safety. Besides that, it is necessary for me to
analyse things in effective way.
As a leader it is my role to implement this project plan in efficient way and achieve goals and
objectives. There are many ways of how thing are to be change in it. Hence, from leadership
point of view there are many things which needs to be taken into consideration. It will helpful in
implementing this project. So, i realize that there are several strength and weakness of this
project on me and nurse staff. Thus ,by implementing this project i found out there are some
strength and weakness as well. As i was leader in this project so i found that first of nurse staff
needs to be trained so that they get knowledge and insight of what entire process is been
executed. There are many ways of how thing are to be done. Moreover, i observed that i
successfully implemented this project. As a leader i applied participative leadership style in it.
This was highly useful for me to engage nurse in it and take suggestions from them regarding
improvement in dispensing of medicine to patients. With this style i was able to discuss plan
with team and take decision. Besides that, in any critical situation i took help of them and took
an effective decision. This style was highly useful for me to proceed with project in systematic
way and complete it. Furthermore, i think that participative style helps in boosting confidence
among team members as well. This is because they are able to engage in decision making. It is
useful in improving team work within project and completing it in deadline. Apart from it, i
gained knowledge and skills as well from this as it enhanced my leadership skills. Now, i will be
able to apply this style in most project. Moreover, another benefit for me was that in this style i
was able to interact and communicate with stakeholders as well. Thus i toom data and info from
them about their needs and how change can be made into project scope. Thus, i became
experience in it. Alongside, i analysed that it helpes me to improve my communication skills as
well. I got to know about different types of communication and when it is used. Other than this, i
get insight on how things are to be done that is project planning, motivating, taking decision etc,
thus it enhanced my decision making skills as well. I was able to take effective decision by
analysing and evaluating situation. In this i analysed situation and then found out option of it.
Then, i evaluated each option on basis of certain aspects and factors. This was easy for me to
eliminate those which are not suitable for it. I gained knowledge about many things that what
type of leadership style is to be applied and in what situation. Besides, how schedule is to be
maintained and quality of project as well.
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But on other hand, there are several problems as well which i faced during this project. This was
difficult for me as a leader to tackle those challenge. Due to it my performance was highly
impacted. The first one is as i was not having any experience in undertaking and completing this
type of project and how to deal with it. Thus, i did not know how to do planning and execution of
it. For that i took help of expert in doing it. This consumed most of time and i was not able to
make proper plan. Due to this further processing was highly affected as well and it resulted in
delay of it. So, as a leader i need to enhance this skill. I realized that entire project success
depends on planning. If this is not done in effective way then it is difficult for leader to complete
it in time. In addition to it, another weakness as leader is I was not able to motivate employee.
Due to it they were not able to do task in effective way. Moreover, it also affected on their
performance and efficiency. Besides, sometimes i was not able to encourage them in proper way.
As a leader it is necessary for me to motivate staff so that project is finished on time. Along with
it, motivation is useful in making things easy and developing strong relations with members.
This results in achieving of task in effective way. So, as i was not able to motivate them there
was affect on staff efficiency. Moreover, they were not able to get proper direction as well that
how to it. I analysed that i was not able to direct or lead them in proper way. They ws not able to
find out ideas or ways of doing task. Furthermore, i was not creative as well in my work. Thus,
there was change in things of doing task and it led ot inefficiency in my performance. I was not
able to bring creativity in my work and due to it in few activities there was delay in it. Thus, it
highly affected on entire project completion and my leadership skills as well.
Description- as i was working in dispensing of medicine to improve health of patients We were
working in team where i was given role of executive. In this i faced situation of conflict with my
colleagues. It occurred due to ineffective communication. So, in this i complaint it to project
manager. The other members also supported me and then manager interrupt into it. He then
called a meeting and resolved conflict.
Feelings- Before conflict all members were working together. They were supporting each other.
Moreover, when conflict occurred i felt nervous. This is because i was facing this situation first
time. Moreover, all team members also got nervous due to conflict. Now, i think that during
situation, i should have solved it myself through communication. Similarly, other people also
thought that conflict might be solved within team itself.
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Evaluation- i evaluated that there was some positive and negative points from situation. The
position was that conflict was resolved quickly and a systematic communication procedure was
set up. But negative was that it affected my performance as i did complain about it. So, my
behavior towards member was short tempered. The thing that went well working in team. On
contrary, conflict resulted in delay of task and achieving of goals and objectives. It affected on
working culture of project team as well. We all interacted with one another regarding conflict
resolution.
Conclusion – i summariz that there may occur conflict in team. In my view there is need to
communicate effectively with other. It will help in sharing info. Moreover, in future if i face
same situation again i will first of all try to solve by myself. Then, i will take help of another
team member in it. But even if conflict is not solved i will complain it to project manager. It will
help me in proceeding in proper way. Hence, i need to improve my decision making and
communication skills. This will help me in dealing with conflict easily.
Action- there is need to take proper action in it to solve conflict in appropriate way. So, policy
and procedure needs to be made. It will help in interacting with team members and working in
effective way. Furthermore, this will enhance their decision making and communication skills.
The tasks can be completed on time and goal are attained.
So, from leadership perspective i found that there are some strength and weakness of this project.
It highly helped me in enhancing my skills and capabilities. I was able to initiate this in
successful way. Moreover, i think that patient safety can be improved in many ways. Likewise,
there can be several other projects which can be executed in it. This will highly help in
enhancing procedure of dispensing medicine and patient safety. Alongside, i conxluded that there
is need to train nursing staff as well so that they follow this procedure in efficient way. It will be
useful in their growth as well. As I have shared my personal experience related the research
project where analyzing and evaluating the significant role of dispensing medicine. According to
me, it become important for gathering a lot of information or data related the concept for
dispending of medicine and how it will help for providing the better services to patient in term of
health safety. My research process was one of most effective concept which help for improving
own knowledge and skill. Having a little experience doing research in every steps (Paulino,
Thomas and Cooper, 2019). I have found myself navigating around to find out the best approach.
Starting off research project, I have recognized the conceptual of project where how it will help
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for improving the healthcare services. Although, I have learned about the several environment
studies through database, it become available.
Furthermore, I gave it try and looked through different database including multiple way to
improve the patient health care service with the help of dispensing of medicine. I have studied
about different articles, journals which provide me a better idea to complete the project in proper
manner (Shah, Galt and Fuji, 2019). When I was started to conduct the different process, initially
focused on the aim and objective. It is to be consider an important topic and represent the
significant role. Furthermore, I have been moved towards the implementing the research
methodology such as qualitative method. I have found that it become important concept which
help for collecting or gathering large amount of information related the research topic.
Qualitative methodology is based on theoretical aspects for using essential information for
further expansion.
Furthermore, my weakness is to collect limited data that has not providing so much
details. So that I have tried to resolve this weakness for improving the abilities and use
qualitative method in right direction. I sorted the relevant articles by data and most recent so that
it easily shows reviews of popular researchers.
In another way, I have found the greatest strength that use an appropriate resources,
equipment which giving me better views. It help for me to further process the research project.
Furthermore, I have selected the secondary data collection technique by using journals, article. In
this way, I have been focused on the different process, execution approach in order to handle the
result or outcome.
The most profound thing I have learned from research is that when identifying, searching for
articles and problem which will never be find. There are lot of thing event look through during
analysis. Therefore, I learned a lot of thing and need to do excessive narrowing by what I am
looking for specific things (Shah, Galt and Fuji, 2019). Sometimes, I have realized that I was
lucky that most of general articles I found. This is reason when I have achieved the desirable
goal and objective.
CONCLUSION
From above report it is summarized there is need to improve dispensing of medicine to improve
patient safety. It will help in providing a systematic procedure to dispense medicine in patients.
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There are many incident occurred as medicine dispensed is different as per patient needs. This
highly impact on patient health. Also, there are many project models and concept which is
applied in undertaking of medical project. The use of it depends on nature and type of project.
Thus, in this project PMBOK model is followed. In this there are several crucial elements which
is required in making of project such as communication, risk, resources required etc these all
provide an insight on how project has to be executed. There are many ways of making things
easy. Sometimes, it has been strictly follow the regulation on dispense of drug which required.
Moreover, treatment of condition such as chronic diseases which require to intake of medication
but it highly differ from one patient to another. Pharmacists allows to follow the regulation and
conduct multiple test, afterwards, it has been represented the report to other physician but they
do not authorised to prescribed. Furthermore, it is identified that there is impact of change was
positive in context of organisation. This is because it lead to improve in patient safety, reducing
staff turnover, building positive image etc this enabled in providing a procedure of dispensing of
medicine and fulfilling patient needs. With that quality of health care services also improved.
Thus , project plan is developed for it to execute this project. It has been found that nurse staff is
not able to provide medicine to patients in proper way. It is because of lack of policy and
procedure. There are to be change in things so that patient safety is improved. However, from
leader point of view there are soem strength and weakness which is faced during this project.
The strength is that communication and leadership skills was enhances as it led to gain
knowledge to leader. This impacted on performance in positive way and project was initiated in
effective way. Moreover, weakness of leader in this was lack of motivation skills and decision
making. It led to delay in completion of task.
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