Best-practice protocols: reducing harm from high-alert medications

Nurs Manage. 2007 Jul;38(7):31-9. doi: 10.1097/01.NUMA.0000281134.08067.9c.

Abstract

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement challenges clinicians and administrators to raise care quality through its 5 Million Lives Campaign, a sequel to the 100,000 Lives Campaign. Here, review a case study on the importance of postoperative monitoring of opioid-naive patients who are receiving narcotics.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Analgesics, Opioid / adverse effects*
  • Benchmarking / organization & administration*
  • Clinical Protocols
  • Communication
  • Drug Monitoring / nursing
  • Drug Monitoring / standards
  • Drug Utilization Review
  • Female
  • Harm Reduction
  • Humans
  • Medical Audit
  • Minnesota
  • Naloxone / therapeutic use
  • Narcotic Antagonists / therapeutic use
  • Nursing Assessment / standards
  • Nursing Audit
  • Pain, Postoperative / drug therapy*
  • Pain, Postoperative / nursing
  • Postoperative Care / nursing
  • Postoperative Care / standards
  • Professional Staff Committees / organization & administration
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / chemically induced
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / diagnosis
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / prevention & control
  • Systems Analysis
  • Total Quality Management / organization & administration*

Substances

  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Narcotic Antagonists
  • Naloxone