Problem
You are collecting data on the current state of medication administration workflow. You record interviews, send out questionnaires, directly observe staff in an acute inpatient floor in a hospital. Describe how you will record, quantify, and analyze the data you collect. Explain each portion
• Recording the data
• Quantifying the data
• Analyzing the data
Explain how you will establish baseline metrics to normalize data from different sources of information. How will you establish baseline metrics? How will you perform data normalization? What is the importance of performing both of these actions?