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MEDICATAION SAFETY<br />

Expanded Medication Safety Culture<br />

‒ IV Pump Library Improvements<br />

• CTX<br />

o Coordinated Pharmacy / Patient Safety training on Carefusion Knowledge<br />

Portal<br />

o Utilize of Guardrails safety software has increased from 82.47% (June<br />

2016) to 93.82% (December 2016)<br />

o Work to standardize data sets (libraries) underway<br />

• NTX<br />

o Improvements presented Nationally for Association of Advancement of<br />

Medical Instrumentation (July 18, 2016).<br />

• Led to interview by ECRI Institute on October 6 th .<br />

o PCA Pump Library Redesign Proposal created to decrease programming<br />

steps for nurses.<br />

o Statistically significant decrease in alert rates [99% CI for difference (2.729,<br />

2.883) p

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