Healthcare organizations including hospitals were founded to give care to those who need it and to keep patients safe.
It is generally agreed upon that the definition of patient safety is…
"DO NO HARM"
3. Describe the importance of the patient safety.
Define patient safety.
Identify IPSG (international patient safety goals) in healthcare provision.
Recognize approaches for error control,
Describe the components of Safety culture.
ILOs
8. What We Know
One in nine adults
contract infection in
hospital.
One in nine patients
receive wrong
medication or wrong
dose.
9. MORE DEATHS AFTER EXPERIENCING ADVERSE EVENTS IN HOSPITAL
THAN DEATHS FROM BREAST CANCER, MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS
AND HIV COMBINED.
Breast
cancer
MVAs HIV
Adverse events
in hospital
15. PATIENT SAFETY DEFINITION
• Healthcare organizations including
hospitals were founded to give
care to those who need it and to
keep patients safe.
• It is generally agreed upon that the
definition of patient safety is…
16. WHAT IS BEING DONE TO MAKE HEALTHCARE
ORGANIZATIONS SAFE FOR PATIENTS?
Joint Commission
on Accreditation
for Healthcare
Organizations
(JCAHO) 1st
established patient
safety goals in
2002.
Each year those
goals are re-
evaluated &
revisions are
published.
When healthcare
organizations are
accredited, they
are given report
cards and graded
on their
compliance with
meeting the goals.
25. Standardize a list of (Prohibited) abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols
that are not to be used throughout the organization.
MSO4
U
mcg
26. Improve the Effectiveness
of Communication Among Caregivers
Improve critical
test results &
values,
timeliness of
reporting, &
timeliness of
receipt.
Measure,
assess and, if
appropriate,
take action.
Use checklists &
standardized
formats.
When receiving
the patient,
check to see
that all orders
are
implemented.
Use the Patient
Transfer forms
and established
criteria.
37. Shared, learned beliefs and behaviors that reflect
an organization’s preparation to learn from errors
Safety culture
38. Components (foundations) of safety
Reporting
• People in direct contact with risks & hazards
freely report their errors & near-misses.
Just
• An atmosphere of trust in which front line
operators are not punished for actions,
omission or decisions they take which are
commensurate with their experience & training
but where gross negligence, willful violations &
destructive acts are not tolerated”.
Flexible
• Permit front line workers to share information,
manage changing work conditions, and to
adapt & learns from experience.
Learning
• A learning culture correctly interprets
information from its safety systems & has the
will to implement change.
39.
40. WHAT
IS Sense the error.
S
Act to prevent it.
A
Follow safety guidelines.
F
Enquire into accidents/deaths.
E
Take appropriate remedial measure.
T
Your responsibility
Y