Interprofessional Leadership Assignment

To prepare:

• Review the Peer Evaluation Form for important information on how this assignment is graded.
• Identify a group facilitator.
• Within your group, select a topic relevant to interprofessional leadership and the health care field on which to focus your group paper. The following are some potential topics for your group to consider:
  • “Just” culture
  • When your group has selected a topic, the group facilitator will submit the topic to the Instructor for approval on the Discussion Board in the Week 5 Group Project Topic Forum.
  • Conduct research on your topic using the Walden Library and other credible sources.

• To complete this Interprofessional Leadership Assignment:

  By Day 7 of Week 7

  As a group, write a 3- to 5 (page count does not include title and reference page) page paper that includes the following:

  • Section 1: Introduction
  • Section 2: Significance of the topic (based on literature that speaks to the relevancy of the concept selected in terms of interprofessional leadership)
  • Section 3: Review of the literature related to the concept that the group selects (current best practices, positive or negative impact on leadership or health care organizations, etc.)
  • Section 4: Application to nursing (e.g., implications or consequences for nursing leaders)
  • Section 5: Conclusion

Rights of Medication Administration

1. Right patient

• Check the name on the order and the patient.
• Use 2 identifiers.
• Ask patient to identify himself/herself.
• When available, use technology (for example, bar-code system).

2. Right medication

• Check the medication label.
• Check the order.

3. Right dose

• Check the order.
• Confirm appropriateness of the dose using a current drug reference.
• If necessary, calculate the dose and have another nurse calculate the dose as well.

4. Right route

• Again, check the order and appropriateness of the route ordered.
• Confirm that the patient can take or receive the medication by the ordered route.

5. Right time

• Check the frequency of the ordered medication.
• Double-check that you are giving the ordered dose at the correct time.
• Confirm when the last dose was given.

6. Right documentation

• Document administration AFTER giving the ordered medication.
• Chart the time, route, and any other specific information as necessary. For example, the site of an injection or any laboratory value or vital sign that needed to be checked before giving the drug.

7. Right reason

• Confirm the rationale for the ordered medication.  What is the patient’s history?