Medication safety issue brief. Change your culture forever. Series II, Part 3.
What is it they say about the best-laid plans? They often go awry. It's the same with initiatives to make drug delivery in hospitals safer. An organization can analyze its procedures with the most sophisticated methods and squeeze out every possible chance for error, but the new design will mold with disuse if momentum is lost. There are many ways for an innovation to get derailed: lost enthusiasm, personnel changes, budget cuts. As they mature in the safety process, organizations have to be flexible but also stay firm in maintaining medication safety as a top priority. Keep safety initiatives alive by involving staff, "hardwiring" changes into the system and monitoring their progress well into the future.
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