The Joint Commission Guide to Patient and Family Education Second Edition
An educated patient or family is a safer patient or family! Use this new edition to help your organization create a comprehensive and appropriate patient and family education program. You’ll learn how to assess a patient’s education needs and create an effective program that reflects and supports your organization’s overall goals. In addition to a collection of real-world patient and family education materials from hospitals, ambulatory care, home care, long term care, and behavioral health care organizations, you’ll receive:
- Tools and ideas for assessing the kind and amount of education patients and their families need
- Guidance in achieving improvements in patient safety through involving and educating patients and their families
- Educational materials -- from print to verbal instructions to computer-assisted learning that exemplify effective approaches to education
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The Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety
An indispensable monthly newsletter focusing on strategies for maintaining safety and reducing risk.
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TIPS: Techniques to Improve Patient Safety, Third edition – CD-ROM
TIPS: Techniques to Improve Patient Safety, Third Edition provides essential patient safety-related information in 52 easy-to-read, weekly e-mails, ready to send to your staff. Each e-mail on this CD-ROM contains an attention-grabbing photo and headline, along with a synopsis of the topic. These e-mails serve as great “refreshers” for staff and are an effective way to keep important patient safety issues in the forefront of your staff members’ minds! You’ll receive:
- Tips relating to the National Patient Safety Goals
- Strategies for reducing the risk of health care-associated infections, improving the accuracy of patient identification, and improving the timely report of critical test results
- Solutions for improving hand-off communications
- Tips for encouraging staff’s knowledge about medication reconciliation
- Coverage of timely topics, including Sentinel Event Alerts and other pertinent information from The Joint Commission
- Inclusion of links to nationally recognized Web sites
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