Tips Tools And Techniques For Meeting Your Patient Safety Goals

Medical residents in hospitals are often required to be on duty for long hours. In 2003 the organization overseeing graduate medical education adopted common program requirements to restrict resident workweeks, including limits to an average of 80 hours over 4 weeks and the longest consecutive period of work to 30 hours in order to protect patients and residents from unsafe conditions resulting from excessive fatigue. Resident Duty Hours provides a timely examination of how those requirements were implemented and their impact on safety, education, and the training institutions. An in-depth review of the evidence on sleep and human performance indicated a need to increase opportunities for sleep during residency training to prevent acute and chronic sleep deprivation and minimize the risk of fatigue-related errors. In addition to recommending opportunities for on-duty sleep during long duty periods and breaks for sleep of appropriate lengths between work periods, the committee also recommends enhancements of supervision, appropriate workload, and changes in the work environment to improve conditions for safety and learning. All residents, medical educators, those involved with academic training institutions, specialty societies, professional groups, and consumer/patient safety organizations will find this book useful to advocate for an improved culture of safety.

Successfully meeting the International Patient Safety Goals set forth by Joint Commission International is an essential element in the accreditation process. Meeting the International Patient Safety Goals will help you understand how your organization can meet the requirements of the six goals, which involve the following crucial patient safety subjects:

Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses' working conditions and demands. Licensed nurses and unlicensed nursing assistants are critical participants in our national effort to protect patients from health care errors. The nature of the activities nurses typically perform â€" monitoring patients, educating home caretakers, performing treatments, and rescuing patients who are in crisis â€" provides an indispensable resource in detecting and remedying error-producing defects in the U.S. health care system. During the past two decades, substantial changes have been made in the organization and delivery of health care â€" and consequently in the job description and work environment of nurses. As patients are increasingly cared for as outpatients, nurses in hospitals and nursing homes deal with greater severity of illness. Problems in management practices, employee deployment, work and workspace design, and the basic safety culture of health care organizations place patients at further risk. This newest edition in the groundbreaking Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm series discusses the key aspects of the work environment for nurses and reviews the potential improvements in working conditions that are likely to have an impact on patient safety.

Building Your Culture of Safety: Six Keys to Preventing Medical Errors Kenneth R. Rohde Prevent life-threatening medical errors! Preventable, life-threatening medical errors are a high-profile issue in hospitals around the country. The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals have made medication management an important focus in recent years, and CMS has announced it will not pay for preventable medical errors going forward. Good communication, effective tools, and a well-documented process for handling medical errors are critical in improving patient safety. Let HCPro help you meet The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals with Building Your Culture of Safety: Six Keys to Preventing Medical Errors. This easy to use time saving booklet will answer any question you may have quickly. This handy pocket-sized guide, available in packs of 25: Provides tips and tools that caregivers can refer to throughout the day Explains how to meet accreditation standards in clear, concise language Contains easy-to-read information covering the basics of prevention Features simple illustrations to help emphasize key issues Building Your Culture of Safety: Six Keys to Preventing Medical Errors is an effective and easy-to-use training tool and reference guide for caregivers on all levels.

A compilation of resources, strategies, and tips for meeting the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals.

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

A compilation of resources, strategies, and tips for meeting the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals.

Examines the newest scientific advances in the science of safety.

Written for virtually every professional and leader in the health care field, as well as students who are preparing for careers in health services delivery, this book presents a framework for developing a patient safety program, shows how best to examine events that do occur, and reveals how to ensure that appropriate corrective and preventative actions are reviewed for effectiveness. The book covers a comprehensive selection of topics including The link between patient safety and legal and regulatory compliance The role of accreditation and standard-setting organizations in patient safety Failure modes and effect analysis Voluntary and regulatory oversight of medical error Evidence-based outcomes and standards of care Creation and preservation of reports, data, and device evidence in medical error situations Claims management when dealing with patient safety events Full disclosure Patient safety in human research Managing confidentiality in the face of litigation Managing patient safety compliance through accountability-based credentialing for health care professionals Planning for the future