Patient Safety Pocket Guide
In a fast-paced work environment, health care workers have to memorize large amounts of information and bring it to mind at exactly the right time and place. Since the release of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on medical errors in November 1999, health care workers have experienced significant changes to their daily work routines, which can make it even more difficult to remember the information necessary to care for patients and keep them safe.
The new Patient Safety Pocket Guide provides health care workers with essential patient safety information right at their fingertips. This pocket-sized booklet is a great resource for practical information that is needed during any given shift to keep patients safe. When carrying this pocket-sized patient safety guide, health care workers will be able to:
- Immediately verify any questions about patient safety practices that might occur during shifts
- Apply and incorporate National Patient Safety Goals, Sentinel Event Alerts, and other patient safety strategies into every day work habits
- Use valuable, concise information to reduce the potential for medical errors
Meeting the Joint Commission’s 2007 National Patient Safety GoalsUnderstand how to meet the Joint Commission’s 2007 National Patient Safety Goals with these valuable articles, book excerpts, useful tips, and suggestions. This book includes previously published articles from various JCR publications and provides detailed information on topics such as:
- Improving the accuracy of patient identification
- Improving the safety of using high-alert medications
- Accurately reconciling medications across the continuum of care
- Reducing the risk of patient harm resulting from falls
- Preventing health care-associated pressure ulcers
- Encouraging patients’ active involvement in their own care
- Improving hand-off communication
- Using the Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person SurgeryTM
Special Features:
- Compliance information on the 2007 National Patient Safety Goals specific to each accreditation program
- Detailed table illustrating the changes and introducing the new goals
- Useful tips and strategies for implementing the goals
- Answers to frequently asked questions
- Case studies from organizations that have successfully complied with the goals
2007 National Patient Safety Goals for Hospitals Badge BuddiesNeed a quick reference to the Joint Commission’s 2007 National Patient Safety Goals for hospitals? Want to educate your staff and help them keep those goals top of mind? Then these badge buddies are for you!
These brightly colored, pocket-sized laminated cards are perfect for attaching to hospital staff ID badges and lanyards. The 2007 National Patient Safety Goals will always be at your staff’s fingertips! Order these helpful badge buddies for all your hospital staff!
Total Health and Safety for Health Care Facilities: Catalyzing Improvements in Employee Safety, Patient Care, and the Bottom Line By Linda F. Chaff, AHA, JCRPublished by JCR and the American Hospital Association, this new book provides evidence that the quality of patient care can be positively affected by the health and safety of health care facility employees, and that the costs of providing care can be reduced.
Readers will be able to identify the true costs and liabilities of poor health and safety performance and learn about methods to measure and consolidate the responsibility for employee health and safety.
Special features include the following:
- Strategies to stop the above-average risk health care workers have in incurring a work-related injury or illness
- Tips to create a work culture where employee safety and health become routine
- A supplemental CD-ROM with full text of federal, state, and governmental agency standards, recommendations, guidelines, and other information
- CD offers keyword and phrase searches in English or Spanish
- CD includes more than 800 documents from agencies and organizations including AMA, ASSE, BLS, CCOHS, CDC, CMS, DOT, EPA, FDA, FEMA, JCAHO, MIOSH, NFPA, NRC, OSHA, and WHO