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- Goal One. Identify patients correctly.
- Goal Two. Improve effective communication.
- Goal Three. Improve the safety of high-alert medications.
- Goal Four. Ensure safe surgery.
- Goal Five. Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections.
- Goal Six.
- Identify patients correctly. …
- Improve staff communication. …
- Use medicines safely. …
- Use alarms safely. …
- Prevent infection. …
- Identify patient safety risks. …
- Prevent mistakes in surgery.
7 patient safety goals for 2021 from Joint Commission.
- Identify patients correctly.
- Prevent infection.
- Improve staff communication.
- Identify patient safety risks.
- Prevent mistakes in surgery.
1: Improve the accuracy of patient identification. 2: Improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers. 3: Improve the safety of using high-alert medications. 4: Eliminate wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong- procedure surgery.
- Improving patient identification.
- Cultivating communication among caregivers.
- Ensuring the safety of medication use.
- Reducing harm caused by the use of alarm systems.
- Avoiding healthcare-induced infections.
- Identifying safety risks in patients.
- Preventing mistakes in surgery.
In 2002, The Joint Commission established its National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) program; the first set of NPSGs was effective January 1, 2003. The NPSGs were established to help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in regards to patient safety.
MLA Citation “The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals (Hospital Version, 2017).” Understanding Patient Safety, 3e Wachter RM, Gupta K. Wachter R.M., & Gupta K(Eds.),Eds.
Care providers can retrieve timely, precise patient information and reduce the risk of medical errors. This benefit saves care provider organizations time and effort. Moreover, nurses have more time to care for patients when fewer errors occur.
- UP for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery.
- NPSG 1: Improve the accuracy of patient identification.
- NPSG 2: Improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers.
- NPSG 3: Improve the safety of using medications.
- NPSG 6: Reduce the harm associated with clinical alarm systems.
Goal 6: Reduce patient harm associated with clinical alarm systems.
Why Should I Care About National Patient Safety Goals? … Rather than promote a culture of “blame and shame” that punishes individuals for mistakes, the National Patient Safety Goals focus on ways that organizations can improve their processes to help individuals avoid mistakes in the first place.
Included safety goals for hospitals are the following: Identifying patients correctly. Improving staff communication. Using medications safely.
As per National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs), the nurse has to ensure that precautions are followed in administering medications to the patient. All medications should be labeled, and unlabeled medications should be discarded so they are not used.
The Universal Protocol was mandated by the Joint Commission 5 years ago with the aim of increasing patient safety by avoiding procedures at the wrong site or in the wrong patient. Despite widespread implementation, this standardized protocol has failed to prevent such severe “never-events” from occurring.
Following are The Joint Commission’s elements of performance for prevention of central line-associated bloodstream infections (National Patient Safety Goal #7): Implement evidence-based practices to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections.
Patient Safety Event – An event, incident, or condition that could have resulted or did result in harm to the patient and can be but is not necessarily the result of a defective system or process design, a system breakdown, equipment failure, or human error.
A variety of stakeholders (society in general; patients; individual nurses; nursing educators, administrators, and researchers; physicians; governments and legislative bodies; professional associations; and accrediting agencies) are responsible for ensuring that patient care is safely delivered and that no harm occurs …