2020 Patient Safety Goals

What are the seven national patient safety goals from the joint commission?

1. Identify Patients Correctly 2. Improve Staff Communication 3. Use Medicines Safely 4. Use Alarms Safely 5. Prevent Infection 6. Identify Patient Safety Risks 7. Prevent Mistakes in Surgery

Reducing the risk for suicide falls under what patient safety goal?

Identify Patient Safety Risks

Making sure the correct patient gets the correct blood for a blood transfusion falls under what patient safety goal?

Identify Patients Correctly

Using double identifiers when giving medicine and treatment falls under what national patient safety goal?

Identify Patients Correctly

Getting important test results to the right staff person on time falls under what national patient safety goal?

Improve Staff Communication

Setting goals to improve hand cleaning and following the hand cleaning guidelines of the CDC and WHO falls under what patient safety goal?

Prevent Infection

Using proven guidelines to prevent infection after surgery falls under what patient safety goal?

Prevent Infection

Using proven guidelines to prevent infection of the blood from central lines falls under what national patient safety goal?

Prevent Infection

Using proven guidelines to prevent infections of the urinary tract that are caused by catheters falls under what national patient safety goal?

Prevent Infection

Using proven guidelines to prevent infections that are difficult to treat falls under what patient safety goal?

Prevent Infection

Making sure that the correct surgery is done on the correct patient and at the correct place on the patient's body falls under what patient safety goal?

Prevent Mistakes in Surgery

Marking the correct place on the patient's body where the surgery is to be done falls under what patient safety goal?

Prevent Mistakes in Surgery

Pausing before the surgery to make sure that a mistake is not being made falls under what national patient safety goal?

Prevent Mistakes in Surgery

Making improvements to ensure that alarms on medical equipment are heard and responded to on time falls under what national patient safety goal?

Use Alarms Safely

Comparing current and past medications, educating patients about their medications, and recording/passing along correct information about patient medications fall under what national patient safety goal?

Use Medicines Safely

Labeling unlabeled medications (syringes, cups, basins) before a procedure falls under what national patient safety goal?

Use Medicines Safely

Taking extra care of patients who are on blood thinners falls under what national patient safety goal?

Use Medicines Safely