Innovative Ideas of Nursing Team to take Care of the Patient | Report

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The Institute of Medicine’s report advocates for the need of better education for a nurse
so that they are able to meet demand for care and make improvements within the health care
system. The video by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2009) explained how innovative ideas
by nurse helped in assessing the status of work done by nursing team and how small changes like
giving patients with fall risk a red sock made staffs about the need to intervene and provide fall
reported support to this patient. Personally, during my nursing practice, I have also identified
areas where I found improve care and bringing new practice related reform was necessary. This
paper will reflect on the changes that I would like to improve care and the steps to achieve it.
During my nursing practice, I have observed how people with multiple medication orders
are confused about their dosing and timing. They often mess it up leading to poor adherence to
medication orders. Although we provide briefings to patient regarding the medications
prescribed and encourage them to use apps that give reminders about their scheduled medication,
this does not work as many patients are not comfortable in using mobile applications. This
problem is particularly common for low educated patients and those are older than 60 years old
(Yap, Thirumoorthy & Kwan, Y. H. (2016). In response to this issue of patient, I would to
change the way medication adherence advice is given to patient. Instead of relying on just one
meeting to explain the medications prescribed, I want to make regular patient’s phone a
necessary part of the nursing process. This is the simplest yet effective way to reach out to
patient, give them at the moment support during confusion about any medication and promote
medication adherence. It does not involve any additional cost. However, this can work to provide
the opportunity to fulfil out-of-hour care needs of patient. Hence, I would like to make telephone
conversation a daily part of nursing care so that each patient receives at least weekly support on
medication management issues.