National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) were established in 2002 by the Joint Commission to help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in regard to patient safety ("Catheter-Associated," 2015). NPSG.07.06.01 Implement evidence-based practices to prevent indwelling catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) is a 2015 NPSG ("The Joint Commission," 2015). Our facility has 1.32 CAUTIs per 1000 device days (Carson, 2015). Decreasing our CAUTIs can be achieved with a strict
component of our local, regional and national health care system. Therefore, it is essential that we must assess and prioritize any risk that may be associated with our business operations. This includes an assessment of sub-organizations or departments that comprise our business configuration or operational model, and external components that may provide services, or are an essential functional part contributing to our business success.
country patient care is compromised by various preventable mistakes. Health care workers (HCW) are continuously pushing the boundaries of time constraints. As these demands are increased the possibility for poor patient outcomes also increase. Prevention is the first line of defense and promotes healthy practices for HCW and patients. The Joint Commission (TJC) collects data pertaining to the incidences, information surrounding each case and establishes a national quality and safety standard
The Six Aims for Improvement and the 2016 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) are both guidelines for bettering and protecting the patient and their experience while being cared for in the hospital. In the book, Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, it states that the six guiding aims should be accepted by every individual and group involved in the provision of healthcare, including health care professionals, public and private health care organizations, purchasers of health care
compliance over the year and reached the one hundred percent make until December. This protocol should be preform at every surgery or minor procedure (where necessary) according to hospital policy in which involves laterality. The National Patient Safety Goal Data (NPSG) for communication in Hospital Wide Compliance of Reporting Critical Results within sixty minutes met one hundred percent, zero
care infections. Different ways of achieving hand hygiene include washing with soap and water or applying a waterless antimicrobial hand rub to the hands commonly known as sanitizing. Health care associated infections (HAI’s) are a infections that patients acquire when they are receiving treatment for other conditions at a healthcare facility. Health care associated infections are a significant issue in the United States and throughout the world but following proper hand hygiene practices is the most
with a vested interest in healthcare safety, there is recognition that clinical alarm systems pose a hazard to patient safety (TJC, 2014; Lukasewicz & Anderson, 2015). The Joint Commission (TJC) issued a Sentinel Event Alert in 2013 on device alarm safety which subsequently led to the creation of the National Patient Safety Goal 06.01.01 (TJC, 2014). The alert and goal was published with an aim at acute care hospitals because of reported adverse and sentinel patient events and data that related to the
The National Patient Safety Goals were created in response to the IOM article, To Err is Human: Building Safer Health Systems. These goals were written to address patient safety and are tailored depending on the health care setting to which they are written for. They address system wide solutions rather than focusing on whom or how the error was made. Medical errors have been noted as being the 8th leading cause of death in the U.S. with the most frequent of these errors being medication related
Leadership; Essential III: Quality and Safety; Essential: IV Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practice; Essential V: Informatics and Health Care Technology and Essential; VII: Interprofessional Collaboration and Improving Patient and Population Outcomes Essential II The Joint Commission stresses leadership as a foundational component of the NPSG Six. Evident throughout the literature
preventing wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong person surgery (2015). In response to these universal protocols, the hospital implemented a pre-procedure hand-off tool, which is completed and signed off by both the nurse handing off the patient as well as the nurse accepting the patient. The hospital also began