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New SAFE CARE program to provide patient education at bedside and while receiving care
On Mar 07, 2012 | CommentsFrom the The Joint Commission
Encouraging patients and their families to take an active role in their health care by becoming involved and informed is critical. In celebration of Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 4-10, a unique patient safety education program will be released to provide patients and their families with instant access to current patient safety videos at their bedside and while receiving care. The 2012 SAFE CARE Patient Safety Education Program is a free offering developed to assist health care organizations in educating patients to help prevent medical errors. Read the full text article >>.
NPSF Urges Be Aware for Safe Care
On Mar 01, 2012 | Comments
Professional and Consumer Focus Highlight Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 4-10, 2012
Boston, Mass. (March 1, 2012)—Health care professionals and consumers alike are the focus as the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) leads Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 4-10, 2012. This year’s theme, Be Aware for Safe Care, calls for all parties in the health care equation to be aware of ongoing efforts to improve patient safety and how they can take part in advancing them. Read More→
Ask Me 3 Video Released
On Feb 27, 2012 | CommentsPatient engagement remains a critical untapped lever in the health care environment. In advance of Patient Safety Awareness Week, NPSF has released a new video derived from its Ask Me 3 program, a patient education program designed to promote communication between health care consumers and providers. The program encourages patients to ask, and understand the answers to, three questions:
- What is my main problem?
- What do I need to do?
- Why is it important for me to do this?
The video is available to the public at no cost. Watch below, or visit the Ask Me 3 section of the website.
Reducing Surgical Site Infections
On Feb 24, 2012 | CommentsLast month, a cross-functional team of infection prevention experts released “Educate, Empower, Engage: A Collaborative Interdisciplinary Call-to-Action for Reducing Surgical Site Infections.” This white paper, the result of last fall’s Infection Prevention Leadership Summit, outlines potential solutions for preventing surgical site infections (SSIs) at health care facilities. Read More→
Experts Question Medicare Effort to Rate Hospitals Patient Safety Records
On Feb 13, 2012 | CommentsFrom Kaiser Health News
Medicare’s first public effort to identify hospitals with patient safety problems has pinpointed many prestigious teaching institutions around the nation, raising concerns about quality at these places but also bolstering objections that the government’s measurements are skewed. Read the full text article >>.
Boston, Mass. (February 7, 2012) – The Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety (CBPPS) today announced the official launch date for the highly-anticipated Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) exam. This credentialing process is designed to establish patient safety competency standards and elevate the professional stature of health care professionals who meet knowledge requirements in safety science, human factors engineering, and the practice of safe care. Read More→
Patient-Centered Care Model Demands Better Physician-Patient Communication
On Feb 03, 2012 | CommentsFrom Journal of the American Medical Association
Physicians need excellent communication skills and appropriate tools for facilitating communication to more effectively incorporate patient preferences into care. Read the extract>>
ASPPS at One Year
On Jan 09, 2012 | Comments
Who is responsible for patient safety in your organization? The obvious answer may be the chief patient safety officer or the director of quality and safety. But that’s only partly right.
Patient safety has grown to become a distinct discipline involving practitioners from diverse areas of the health care spectrum who work under engaged and involved leaders. It involves representatives of nursing, medicine, environmental services, pharmacy, and other areas, none more important than the leadership team. Last January, the National Patient Safety Foundation established the American Society of Professionals in Patient Safety (ASPPS) as a multidisciplinary community of individuals committed to advancing patient safety best practices. Read More→
Report Finds Most Errors at Hospitals Go Unreported
On Jan 06, 2012 | CommentsThe New York Times, January 6, 2012.
WASHINGTON — Hospital employees recognize and report only one out of seven errors, accidents and other events that harm Medicare patients while they are hospitalized, federal investigators say in a new report.
Yet even after hospitals investigate preventable injuries and infections that have been reported, they rarely change their practices to prevent repetition of the “adverse events,” according to the study, from Daniel R. Levinson, inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Click to read the full article.
Interprofessional Education and Health Care Simulation Survey
On Dec 28, 2011 | CommentsThe Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) is offering an Interprofessional Education and Healthcare Simulation Symposium, January 27 and 28, 2012. The symposium will immediately precede the 12th Annual International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (Jan 28–Feb 1, 2012).
Visit the Society’s website for more information about the symposium and the meeting.
Take the Society’s survey on Interprofessional Education and Healthcare Simulation.
