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Infection control professionals attempting to comply with accreditors and do a root-cause analysis of fatal nosocomial infections must set narrow patient definitions and work closely with their quality improvement colleagues if any meaningful prevention data are to come out of the controversial initiative, an ICP warned.
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National patient safety legislation that would encourage the confidential reporting of medical errors is critically needed in todays health care system, urged Dennis OLeary, MD, president of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.
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The University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle is in no hurry to implement a tool an ad hoc committee created to teach patients their role in safety issues. It is running it through a series of pre-tests before implementing it housewide.
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Before creating a tool to help patients and their families understand their roles in patient safety, Cezanne Garcia, MPH, CHES, manager of patient and family education Services at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, conducted a literature search to determine what information was available.
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During Health Care Education Week at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA, Benjamin T. Laroya, RN, BSN, OCN, patient and family education coordinator, assembled a list of teaching tips to handout to staff who came by the display on patient education.
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Barb Petersen, RN, BSN, is patient education coordinator at Great Plains Regional Medical Center, a 116-bed facility in North Platte, NE. While meeting a variety of patient needs, she says a passion for learning keeps her job fresh.
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While medical errors are not a new phenomenon, they suddenly are becoming high profile due to government reports, media coverage, and standards to improve patient safety by such accrediting agencies as the Oakbrook Terrace, IL-based Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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After participating in Health Care Education Week last year, staff in the Patient, Family, and Community Education Department at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA, decided to participate again this November.
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Building awareness of the signs and symptoms for ovarian cancer is the mission of The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition based in Boca Raton, FL. While other organizations raise money for research, the coalition uses its funds to educate the general public and physicians.
