title: Combining quality improvement and staff development efforts to decrease patient-controlled analgesia pump errors.
abstract: Errors in programming patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps unfortunately occur in hospitals. At this hospital, quality improvement efforts were combined with staff development programming to decrease PCA pump errors. A significant decrease in PCA pump errors was found after 1:1 staff education.
authors.affiliation: St Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ferguson
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Betty
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Beard
mesh_terms: D016058:Analgesia, Patient-Controlled / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D007260:Infusion Pumps; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015146:Midwestern United States; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D016730:Program Development; D058996:Quality Improvement; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*