The Quest to Reduce Infusion Errors

DailyNurse.com is a nursing news, reviews and career site that features current issues in nursing. In this article, Sue Niemeier, Chief Nursing Officer for Ivenix, provides considerations for nurses when evaluating new or existing infusion technology, with the goal of reducing infusion errors and improving patient safety.

From talking with nurses and observing the challenges that nurses have with current infusion technology, we discovered nurses are forced to know almost as much about the anatomy of their pumps as the anatomy of their patients..in order to help improve infusion delivery, we needed to design an infusion system with the goal of helping nurses put the focus back on their patients, making the clinician’s life easier, and, ultimately, patient care safer.

The article can be accessed here.