Several stakeholders in healthcare are valuable in driving safety enhancement during medication administration. These stakeholders include clinicians, patients, hospital administration, legislative and professional bodies, and accrediting bodies (Salar et al., 2020). Other clinicians besides nurses are directly involved in patient handling and may work with nurses to put down measures to enhance the safety of the patients. Administrators are also key as they help in functional support and capacity enhancement of hospitals’ staff and functionalities, therefore, ensuring quality care provision. Legislative bodies define the contractual and legal requirements of healthcare facilities and healthcare providers towards enhancing the safety of patients. On the other hand, professional bodies define the standards of practice and ensure that nurses work within their scope of practice and in a manner consistent with the aggregable standards of the profession. Nurses should coordinate with all these bodies due to their significance in ensuring quality and safe care provision.
Conclusion
Quality and safe care provision remains a fundamental functionality of healthcare providers. Nurses, in particular, play a pivotal role in enhancing quality improvement measures and the safety of their patients. Medication administration provides a challenging aspect of nursing practice and a source for compromises in quality. Understanding aspects of medications and medication administration, as well as care coordination, may enable them to execute their mandate in a manner that guarantees quality and safety.
References
Abdulmutalib, I., & Safwat, A. (2020). Nursing Strategies for Reducing Medication Errors. Egyptian Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences, 1(1), 26-41. https://doi.org/10.21608/ejnhs.2020.80266.