International Patient Safety Goals

Fudah AL-muslim

Isolation Preceptor

Why Patient safety Goals.

List of Goals.

Brief of each goal.

Requirement of each goal.

Summary.

Presentation Topics

Why Patient safety Goals

1. To promote specific improvements in patient safety.

2. To highlight problematic areas in health care and describe evidence- and

expert-based consensus solutions to these problems.

List of Goals. Goal 1: Identify Patients Correctly.

Goal 2: Improve Effective Communication.

Goal 3: Improve the Safety of High-Alert Medications.

Goal 4: Ensure Correct-Site, Correct-Procedure,

Correct-Patient Surgery.

Goal 5: Reduce the Risk of Health Care–Associated

Infections.

Goal 6: Reduce the Risk of Patient Harm Resulting

from Falls.

Goal 1: Identify Patients

Correctly. Using at least two (2) ways to identify a patient.

1. Patient full Name “ ask the patient’s what’s your name”

2. patient medical record number ( MRN).

The patient's room number and location cannot be used to identify the patient.

Patients are identified when:

1.Giving medicines, blood or blood products.

2.Taking blood samples and other specimens for clinical testing.

3.Providing any other treatments or procedures.

Goal 2: Improve Effective

Communication.

verbal and telephone communications.

verbaL Communication:-• The Receiver does the Following: Document the order immediately on the Physician

order sheet ( Including date and time , Physician name & pager no. ) .

• Telephone Communication:-

USING ISBAR.

The Receiver does the Following:

Document the order immediately on the Physician order sheet ( Including date and time ,

Physician name & pager no. ) .

CALL ANOTHER STAFF TO REPEATS THE ORDER TO THE DOTOR THEN

2SIGNATURE

Goal 3: Improve the Safety

of High-Alert Medications.

High-alert medications are those medications involved in a high percentage of errors and/or sentinel events, medications that carry a higher risk for adverse outcomes, as well as look-alike, sound-alike medications.

Goal 4: Ensure Correct-Site,

Correct-Procedure, Correct-Patient Surgery.

>Marking the correct surgical site.>Pre- operative verification

process.> Conduct time out process.

Goal 5: Reduce the Risk of Health

Care–Associated Infections.

1- Hand washing:

2- infection control practices to include:(5) moment of hand hygiene

3-Use PPEPersonal protective equipment

Goal 6: Reduce the Risk of Patient Harm

Resulting from Falls.

Fall unexpected change in

position that causes person to land on an object on the floor or other lower level ( witnessed),

or is reported to have landed on the ground ( unwitnessed).

Using Morse Fall Scale (Adult),and Little Schimdy ( 0-12). Of age

Assessment All patients should be assessed

on Admission TIME.

RE-Assessment

Whenever changes in patients status noted.

Whenever a fall occurs.

Whenever being transfer to another Unit.

GREEN ( 0 – 24 )YELLOW ( 25 – 44 )

RED ( 45 AND HIGH)

THERE IS 3 LOGO OF FALL:

Preventive Interventions through:

1. Communication .

2. Environment.