NURS410 Foundations of Leading Change and Advancing Health

PICO Question Worksheet (for Assignment submission)

Briefly Describe the Elements of your PICO question:

1. Population: Patients at Schneider Regional Medical Center

2. Intervention: Implementation of a registered nurse co-signer for mixing and administration of

insulin infusions, sedative infusions, antiarrhythmic and vasodilator infusions, and vasopressor
infusions.

3. Comparison: Single-check by one registered nurse

4. Outcome: Reduced incidence of medication errors

Synthesize the elements into your PICO question along with the start of a reference list and
submit this document through the Assignments link. Your PICO Question should be nurse
focused and something that you hopefully have control over and be doable.

5. Final PICO Question:

For patients at Schneider Regional Medical center, does the implementation of a registered nurse
co-signer to double check the mixing and administration of high-risk IV infusions reduce the
future risk of medication errors compared with mixing and administration of high-risk IV
infusions by a single registered nurse?

References
List a minimum of 2 current (<5 years old) evidence-based resources related to your problem
and/ or related interventions. Use APA formatting.

References

Douglass, A. M., Elder, J., Watson, R., Kallay, T., Kirsh, D., Robb, W. G., Kaji, A. H., & Coli,

C. J. (2018). A randomized controlled trial on the effect of a double check on the

detection of medication errors. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 71(1), 74-82.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2017.03.022

Mulac, A., Hagesaether, E., & Granas, A. G. (2021). Medication dose calculation errors and
other numeracy mishaps in hospitals: Analysis of the nature and enablers of incident

reports. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 78(1), 224-238. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15072