Improving Medication Safety: A Performance Plan for Thunder Hospital

This performance improvement plan (PIP) addresses medication errors at Thunder Hospital, aiming to enhance patient safety, improve clinical and economic outcomes, and ensure continuous quality improvement (CQI). The plan involves forming a task group to identify challenges and develop error-reduction strategies, conducting regular audits, and providing resources such as training funds and expert support. The CEO supports the plan by making the development agenda meaningful, role-modeling desired behaviors, and pursuing impact. The expected outcomes include clear identification of error-prone areas, streamlined medication procedures, eradication of accidentally administered medications, practice standardization, and long-term medication safety. Progress checkpoints are scheduled to assess the plan's effectiveness, with anticipated improvements in healthcare quality, corporate image, and patient treatment outcomes. The document is available on Desklib, a platform that provides students with access to past papers and solved assignments.

THUNDER HOSPITAL
Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)

Area of Concern
This performance improvement plan aims to diminish medication errors and develop
the economic and health outcomes of clinical care in Thunder Hospital

Observation
Despite the growth experienced in Thunder Hospital, the hospital is facing several
patient safety problems among them being medication administration errors.

Phase 1
Improvement Goals:
 To reduce medication errors (RELIAS, 2018)
 Enhance the economic and health outcomes of clinical care
 Ensure a constant quality improvement (CQI) sequence

Phase 2
Goal Activity How to Accomplish Start
Date
Projecte
d
Complet
ion Date
1
Form a task group
The task group obliged to
identify challenges and
come up with strategies to
eradicate medication errors
12/6/201
8
12/7/201
8
2
Select Specific
members of the task
group
These members asked to
review various error-prone
areas which deter treatment
outcomes
12/6/201
8
12/7/201
8
3 Form a regular audit
team
The team will be responsible
for checking and reviewing
the development scheme.
12/7/201
8
To
infinite

Step 3
Listed below are some of the resources available for the development department to
complete Improvement activities:
1.
Funds for training materials
2.
Time
3.
Experts

Management Support
Listed below are various ways through which the CEO will support these Improvement
activities.
1. Making the development agenda meaningful (Alton, Sarah, Farndon, and
Lisa, 2018)
2.
Role-modeling anticipated mind-sets and performance.
3.
Persistently pursuing impact.

Phase 4
Expectations: : The proposal is expected to improve overall quality in various ways:
1. Clear identification of various medication error-prone areas
2. More streamlined medication procedures free of blunders and
mistakes
3. Thorough eradication of medications which might be accidentally
administered
4. Proper practice standardization
5. Imply concept of medication safety in the long run

Phase 5
Progress Checkpoints: This schedule shall be used to assess the progress in meeting
the aforementioned Improvement undertakings.
Goal /
objecti
ve
Activity Checkp
oint
Date
Type of
Follow-up
(call/
memo/
meeting)
Progress
Expected
Notes

Conclusion
According to the CEO, Chairman, and a member of the quality improvement team, a
successful implementation of this proposal will lead to more improved health care,
enhanced corporate image, and advanced patient treatment outcomes respectively.

REFERENCES
RELIAS,2018. Hospital Leverages Pharmacists, Trained Technicians to Reduce
Medication History Errors. To reduce medication errors, investigators make
the case that ‘universal precautions’ should be developed and applied to electronic
medical record-based medication histories.
Alton, Sarah, Farndon, Lisa,2018. he impact of community pharmacy-led
medicines management support for people with COPD. British Journal of
Community Nursing.