What's in your kit? A safety checkup may be in order. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

What's in your kit? A safety checkup may be in order. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published November 2015

What's in your kit? A safety checkup may be in order.

Paparella SF. J Emerg Nurs. 2015;41:513-515.

Standardizing processes can improve the reliability of care delivery. This commentary discusses the use of standardized kits with necessary medications and equipment for emergent situations and describes factors that can reduce the effectiveness in this approach, such as leaving partially complete kits available and failure to ensure medications in the kits have not expired. Partnerships with hospital pharmacists are encouraged to increase the value of the standardized kit strategy.

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