Question

The capstone project is designed to be completed in sections. This is part three of the assignment.

Review your logic model, change proposal, and initiation plan. Describe in detail how the overall change plan will be evaluated, and the resources needed to evaluate the project. Discuss the evaluation process in relationship to the projected outcomes.

Create a dissemination plan. Explain how the outcome of the project will be disseminated externally (outside the setting to health care community) and internally (unit or hospital where the change process has taken place). A detailed plan answers the questions who, what, where, how, and when.

I am writing about Medication errors in emergency departments. The goal is to reduce medication errors in emergency using barcode technology

Answer 1

capstone project class will allow students to create a usable/public data product that can be used to show your skills to potential employers. Projects will be drawn from real-world problems and will be conducted with industry, government, and academic partners.

This course is part of multiple programs

This course can be applied to multiple Specializations or Professional Certificates programs. Completing this course will count towards your learning in any of the following programs:

• Data Science: Statistics and Machine Learning Specialization
• Data Science Specialization

The main purpose of this capstone project is to provide an objective analysis of
the cost of a medication error in the ED. The secondary objective of this analysis is to
estimate the cost avoidance associated with the provision of clinical pharmacy services
in the ED. This capstone project begins with an examination of the past and current
available literature relating to the provision of clinical pharmacy services in the ED, with
emphasis placed on literature that addresses either the cost of medication errors or the
economic impact of interventions made by pharmacists in the ED. Where applicable,
the literature review will expand to include more general research on economic
outcomes as they relate to both the practice of pharmacy and medication errors.
After the pertinent literature has been reviewed and specific gaps in the current
knowledge are identified, data and methods will be set up in a way to fill those gaps and
answer the following basic research questions:
(1) How much does a medication error increase total emergency department costs?
(2) How much cost avoidance is associated with the prevention of medication errors by
a clinical pharmacist in the emergency department?
Provided is a description of how two separate data sets, one containing national
data and one containing local data, were employed to produce a cost avoidance
estimate for clinical pharmacy services in the ED at UKCMC. This section will also
include a discussion of any potential ethical issues or possible sources of bias in
collection and analysis of the data.
Immediately following the methods section, the analysis of the cost of a
medication error in the ED will be presented. That result will then be applied to the data
obtained in the ED at UKCMC to estimate a cost avoidance value for the prevention of medication errors by a clinical pharmacist in the ED. In this section the inpatient costs
for the medication error group and the control group will also be compared, and the
effect of a medication error on the likelihood of being admitted to the hospital will be
addressed.
Following the results section, a brief exploration of how these findings compare
with the results of other researchers is offered. The possible implications of these
findings for hospital administrators as well as what other factors could enter into their
decision-making process are discussed. Finally, the conclusions reached through this
analysis and possible arguments for ED policy changes will be presented. This project
concludes with the limitations of this research and author recommendations for further
research in this field.

iency.
The following questions guided the educational in-service:
• What is the appropriate evidence-based content to include in an in-service
educational program aimed at decreasing the incidence medication errors in
healthcare facilities?
• What are nurses’ knowledge scores regarding strategies to minimize
medication error pre- and post- an educational in-service session?
• What is the effect of an educational program on nurses’ administration of
medication during a return demonstration?
• What challenges are there to reporting medication errors?
• What opportunities or challenges could influence the implementation of this
educational project?
The plan for this project was to design a staff educational in-service program