National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) - Improving Patient Safety in Healthcare, Exams of Advanced Education

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Why Patient Safety? - • Magnitude

• 4 out of 10 patients harmed
  • Incidence
• 134 million adverse events
• Medications
• $42 Billion TJC National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) - • Improve patient safety
• Reduce risk of medical errors NPSG Standards - Safety
• Medication use
• Infection control
• Surgery and anesthesia
• Transfusions
• Restraints and seclusion
• Staff competence
• Fire safety
• Medical equipment
• Emergency management
• Security Healthcare Settings - NPSGs - • The goals are divided into various healthcare setting programs
• Some goals overlap into more than one setting Programs
• Ambulatory Health Care
• Behavioral Health Care
• Critical Access Hospital
• Hospital
• Laboratory Services

• Nursing Care Center
• Office-Based Surgery 2020 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals - 1. Identify patients correctly

2. Improve staff communication
3. Use medicines safely
4. Use alarms safely
5. Prevent infection
6. Identify patient safety risks UP. Prevent mistakes in surgery Goal 1: Identify patients correctly - NPSG.01.01.

• Use at least two ways to identify patients NPSG.01.03.
• Make sure that the correct patient gets the correct blood when they get a blood transfusion Goal 2: Improve staff communication - NPSG.02.03.
• Get important test results to the right staff person on time Goal 3: Use medicines safely - NPSG.03.04.
• Before a procedure, label medicines that are not labeled. Do this in the area where they are prepared. NPSG.03.05.
• Take extra care with patients who take medicines to thin their blood. Goal 3: Use medicines safely - Reconciling medication information - NPSG.03.06.
• Record and pass along correct information about a patient's medications.
• Find out what medications the patient is taking.
• Compare those medicines to new medicines given to the patient.
• Make sure the patient knows which medicines to take when they are at home.
• Tell the patient it is important to bring their up-to-date list of medicines every time they visit a doctor. Goal 6: Use alarms safely - NPSG.06.01.

Goal # Goal # Goal #4 - Replaced with Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Person Surgery Goal #5 - Improve the Safety of Using Infusion Pumps NPSG. 05.01.

• Ensure free-flow protection is
• Available and functioning
• General-use intravenous pumps
• PCA (patient-controlled analgesia) intravenous pumps Goal #9 - Reduce the Risk of Patient Harm Resulting from Falls NPSG. 09.01.
• Assess and periodically
• Reassess each patient's risk for falling

• Including the potential risk associated with the patient's medication regiment

• Take action to address any identified risk NPSG. 09.02.
• Implement a fall reduction program
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the program Goal #11 - Reduce the Risk of Surgical Fires NPSG. 11.01.
• Educate staff, including operating licensed independent practitioners and anesthesia providers
• How to control heat sources
• Manage fuels with enough time for patient preparation
• Establish guidelines to minimize oxygen concentration under drapes
• How to control heat sources
• Manage fuels with enough time for patient preparation Goal #12 - Implementation of Applicable NPSGs and Associated Requirements by Components and Practitioner Sites

Goal #13 - Encourage Patients' Active Involvement in their Own Care as a Patient Safety Strategy NPSG. 13.01.

• Identify the ways in which the patient and his or her family can report concerns about safety and encourage them to do so Goal #14 - Prevent Healthcare-Associated Pressure Ulcers (Decubitus Ulcers) in Long-Term Care NPSG. 14.01.
• Assess and periodically reassess each resident's risk
• Development of a pressure ulcer
• Action plan to address any identified risks Safety Event Reporting - Who can report:
• Patients
• Families
• Government agencies
• Public
• Staff
• Media How to report:
• Online: TJC website
• Fax: 630- 792 - 5636
• Mail: The Office of Quality and Patient Safety The Joint Commission 1 Renaissance Blvd. Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, 60181 Sentinel Event Policy - According to TJC:
• A sentinel event is any unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof. Serious injuries specifically include a loss of limb or function. The phrase "or the risk thereof" includes any