National Patient Safety Goals – Flashcards

Helps ensure quality health care through the development of standards for patient safety.

Undergo review by the Joint Commission to ensure that health care facilities comply with the standards and regulations set forth from the Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Is reviewed and if the facility meets the criteria, then it will receive an accreditation, which is renewable every three years.

promote specific improvement in patient safety. NPSGs are important to the delivery of safe, high quality health care.

If followed, they will help to prevent injury and harm to our patients.

are inherent to a culture of safety.

Is central to the Joint Commission review.

These goals address identified problematic areas across health care. Patient safety is everyone's responsibility. Also, following NPSG's helps educate the community on how healthcare is promoting safety and seeking the prevention of injury. This should be done in every identified setting.

An unexpected patient/resident occurrence that results in, or could result in, death or serious harm to the patient/resident. The purpose of reporting and investigating sentinel events is to improve the quality of patient/resident care by focusing attention on underlying causes and risk reduction and to increase the general knowledge about sentinel events, their causes and prevention. the reporting is not punitive.

Identify specific sentinel events, describes their common underlying causes, and suggests steps to prevent occurrences in the future. the Joint Commission uses Sentinel Event Alerts to identify potential new Safety Goals and Requirements.

1. Independent, nonprofit organization with a mission to improve the safety of care for all patients. 2. Defines safety as the prevention of healthcare errors and the elimination or mitigation of patient injury caused by health care errors. 3. Health care errors are defined as an unintended health care outcome caused by a defect in the delivery of care to a patient.

1. Panel of widely recognized patient safety experts a. Nurses, physicians, pharmacists, risk managers, clinical engineers, other professionals 2. They have hands-on experience in addressing patient safety issues in wide variety of health care settings. 3. The Patient Safety Advisory Group advises The Joint Commission on the development and updating of NPSGs. 4. Advises The Joint commission how to address emerging patient safety issues. a. Ex. NPSG's, Sentinel Events Alerts, standards and survey processes, performance measures, educational materials, Center for Transforming Healthcare projects 5. Evaluate safety concerns and determine which ones will have the max impact for the minimum cost.

-The NPSG's were established in 2002 to help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in regards to patient safety. -The Joint Commission first implemented the first set of NPSG's for healthcare organizations in January 1, 2003. -Matching goals to facilities.

has specific goals for the following healthcare facilities: *ambulatory care *behavioral care *hospitals *critical access to hospitals *home care *lab services *nursing care *long-term care *office-based surgery

National Patient Safety initiatives: -Foster Collaboration *Healthcare facilities *Government agencies *Physicians and nurses *Healthcare clients -Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act *Mandates reporting system *Protects individuals who report

*accuracy of patient identification *communication between caregivers *safety of infusion pumps *safety of high-alert medications *effectiveness of clinical alarm systems **wrong patient, wrong site, wrong procedure

-improve the accuracy of patient identification -improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers -improve the safety of using medications -reduce the harm associated with clinical alarm systems -reduce the risks of HAI's -identify safety risks inherent in the hospital's patient population -prevent wrong site, wrong procedure