Nurse Safety and Quality Improvement
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Safety and Quality Improvement
- National Patient Safety Goals
- Goal 1: Identify patients correctly
- Use at least two ways to identify patients (for example, have them state full name and date of birth)
- Give the correct patient the correct blood with every blood transfusion
- Goal 2: Improve communication among the health care team
- Quickly get critical test results to the right staff person
- Goal 3: Use medications safely
- Label all medicines that are not already labeled. Discard any found unlabeled
- Use appropriate precautions with patients who take anticoagulants
- Find out what medications each patient is taking. Make certain that it is safe for the patient to take any new medicines with his or her current medicines
- Give a list of the patient’s medicines to the patient and his or her caregiver before they go home. Explain the list
- Goal 6: Use clinical alarm systems safely
- Respond to alarms in a timely manner
- Do not turn alarms off
- Goal 7: Prevent health care-associated infections (HAI)
- Use soap, water, and hand sanitizers before and after every patient contact
- Use evidence-based practices to prevent infections related to central lines, indwelling urinary catheters, and multidrug-resistant organisms
- Goal 15: Identify the safety risks inherent in the agency’s patient population
- Assess patients at risk for suicide
- Assess any risks for patients who are getting home oxygen therapy, such as fires
- Goal 1: Identify patients correctly
- Universal Protocol (UP)
- Pre-procedure verifications, Mark procedure site, Performance of time-out
- Conduct a time-out before the start of any invasive or surgical procedure
- Confirm correct patient, procedure, and site
- Pre-procedure verifications, Mark procedure site, Performance of time-out
Evidence-Based Practice
- Problem-solving approach to clinical decision making
- Using the best available evidence, with your expertise and patient’s preferences, to make decisions and improve patient outcomes
- To implement EBP, you must develop the skills to be able to seek and incorporate into practice scientific evidence that supports best patient outcomes.
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