Programs
With a mission to work with multiple stakeholders to improve patient safety worldwide, NPSF has a history of helping health care organizations through programs that address the most pressing safety issues they face.
Stand Up for Patient Safety
The Stand Up for Patient Safety program is an organization-wide membership program that offers tools to launch, sustain, and advance patient safety initiatives. Membership benefits include a Member Resource Guide with an extensive collection of articles, brochures, and other resources; free annual participation in 10 audio-web conferences presented by experts in the field; subscriptions to Current Awareness Literature Alert and Focus on Patient Safety; and free participation in the AIG regional leadership conference series.
Begun in 2002 with 16 founding members, the Stand Up program now has a membership of over 400 health care facilities. The Ambulatory Stand Up for Patient Safety™ program, launched in 2008, provides similar resources that are targeted to physician practices and outpatient centers. Read more about Stand Up.
Online Learning
NPSF considers education to be part of our central mission. Most of our educational offerings carry continuing education credits for health care professionals. We offer a monthly webcasts through the Professional Learning Series; a number of educational modules that focus on specific topics; and a comprehensive Patient Safety Curriculum for those who wish to raise their expertise to the next level.
Ask Me 3™
The Ask Me 3 program is a patient education program designed to promote communication between health care providers and patients in order to improve health outcomes. Ask Me 3 offers background information about health literacy as well as brochures and information to share with staff and patients. Learn more about Ask Me 3.
NPSF Research Grants Program
The NPSF Research Grants program aims to stimulate new, innovative research directed toward improved patient safety in the United States. Since 1998, the program has supported 36 research projects with nearly $3.6 million in grant funding. Learn more here.
