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Welcome back, everyone.
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Patient safety goals are essential
to the well-being of patients
and the success of hospitals
and other health care establishments.
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The Joint Commission,
an organization that accredits
healthcare organizations and programs,
established the National Patient
Safety Goals program
to assist accredited organizations
in addressing areas of concern.
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The purpose
of the National Patient Safety Goals
is to improve patient safety.
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The goals focus on problems
in healthcare safety and how to solve them.
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The National Patient Safety Goals
were established in 2002
by the Joint Commission
and they went into effect
January 1, 2003.
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They were determined from input
from a variety of sources,
such as practitioners,
provider organizations,
purchasers,
consumer groups,
and other stakeholders.
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So now let's review
the National Patient Safety Goals.
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First, improve the accuracy
of patient identification.
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This involves use
of at least two patient identifiers
when providing care,
treatment, and services.
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Acceptable identifiers
are an individual's name,
assigned identification number,
telephone number,
or other person's specific identifier.
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Now remember,
newborns are at higher risk
because they cannot repeat back to you
with their name or identification number,
so pay special attention to them.
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Also, eliminate transfusion errors
related to patient misidentification.
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This involves matching of blood
or blood components to the order.
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Also, matching a patient
to the blood or blood component,
and also involves either
a two-person verification process,
or a one-person verification process
when accompanied by
an automated identification technology
such as barcoding.
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Next, improve the effectiveness
of communication among caregivers.
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Report critical results of tests
and diagnostic procedures
on a timely basis.
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Critical results of tests
and diagnostic procedures
which fall significantly outside
of the normal range
might indicate
a life-threatening situation.
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Be sure to provide
the responsible licensed caregiver.
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These results within
an established time frame,
so that the patient
can be properly treated.
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Next, improve the safety
of using medications.
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Be sure to label all medications,
medication containers,
and other solutions
on or off the sterile field
in perioperative
or other procedural settings.
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This also involves reduction
of patient harm
associated with the use
of anticoagulant therapy.
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And accurate patient
medication information.
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Next, reduce the harm associated
with clinical alarm systems
by improving the safety
of clinical alarm systems.
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Clinical alarm systems are really great
for indicating potential patient problems,
but if they're not properly managed,
it could compromise patient's safety.
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Individual alarm signals
sometimes are difficult to detect,
especially if you've got
numerous alarm signals
in many patient care areas
going off at the same time.
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Also, staff may become desensitized
through the noise and displayed information
because they hear it all of the time,
and it might cause them
to miss or ignore alarm signals
or even disable them.
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Next, reduce the risk
of health care-associated infections.
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Be sure to follow the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
or the CDC hand hygiene guidelines
or the current World Health Organization,
the WHO hand hygiene guidelines.
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These support evidence-based practices
for preventing
healthcare-associated infections
due to multidrug-resistant organisms
in acute care hospitals,
to central line-associated
bloodstream infections,
to surgical site infections,
and finally, indwelling catheter-associated
urinary tract infections.
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Next, the hospital identifies safety risks
inherent in its patient populations.
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This is to identify patients at risk
for suicide.
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Now this requirement applies
only to psychiatric hospitals
and to patients being treated
for emotional or behavioral disorders
in a general hospital.
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Suicide of a patient while in a staffed,
around-the-clock care setting
frequently is reported
as a type of a sentinel event.
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Identification of individuals
at risk for suicide
while under the care of
or following discharge
from a health care organization
is an important step in protecting
these at-risk individuals.
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And finally, follow the universal protocol
for preventing wrong site,
wrong procedure,
and wrong person surgery.
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To do this, you need to conduct
a preprocedure verification process.
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You need to make sure
that you are conducting
the correct surgery
on the correct patient
on the correct place
on the patient's body.
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Once that's been identified,
make sure to mark the procedure site,
then perform a time-out
immediately before the procedure.
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This is a final assessment
for identification
of the correct patient,
site, and procedure,
and it's conducted before anesthesia
for patient involvement.
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Remember, healthcare professionals
understanding of new requirements
and how to put them into action
is the key to success.
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So when thinking of everything
we've learned today,
I'd like you to consider this question.
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What are the National Patient Safety Goals?
They are improve the accuracy
of patient identification,
improve the effectiveness
of communication among caregivers,
improve the safety of using medications,
reduce the harm associated
with clinical alarm systems,
reduce the risk of healthcare
associated infections,
and the hospital identifies safety risks
inherent in its patient population,
the universal protocol
for preventing wrong site,
wrong procedure,
wrong person surgery.
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I hope you enjoyed today's video
on the National Patient Safety Goals.
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Thanks so much for watching.