National Patient Safety Goals

This program provides an overview to the 2009 NPSGs and focuses on those goals that are the most challenging for organizations across all accreditation programs to meet. Areas of focus include: communication issues; medication reconciliation; hand hygiene; and reducing falls. Discussion will focus on patient safety principles, developing measures for NPSGs, data collection and analysis, the challenges, strategies, tips and good practices for improving systems related to the challenging national patient safety goals. The program includes discussion, case studies on good practice examples, take home tools, and the opportunity for participants to identify strategies that they can implement within their organizations immediately.

Objectives:
 -Discuss patient safety as a systems improvement approach

 -Describe the 2009 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG)

 -Identify measurement strategies for the NPSGs

 -Discuss strategies for systems improvement to address the NPSGs

Target Audience
This program is designed for executive and middle-management level individuals, nurses, risk managers, survey coordinators, physicians, pharmacists, health care professionals who work in hospitals, ambulatory, long term care, home care, and behavioral health care settings.

Brochure

This program runs from 8:00 am - 4:30 pm on Day 1 and from 8:00 am - 12 pm on Day 2.

Day One
7:30 – 8:00 a.m.
Registration, Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Introduction, Needs Assessment and Overview

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Key Revisions Goals 1 & 3- Patient Identification & Medication Safety
Case Study and Tools

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
BREAK

10:45 – Noon.
Key Revisions Goal 7- Health Care-Associated Infections
Case Study and Tools

Noon – 1:00 pm
LUNCH

1:00 – 2:30 pm Key Revisions Goal 8- Medication Reconciliation
Case Study and Tools

2:30 – 2:45 p.m.
BREAK

2:45 – 4:00 p.m.
Key Revisions Goals 13 & 16- Patient Involvement in Care & Response to
Changes in a Patient’s Condition

DAY 2
Case Study and Tools

8:00 -- 9:30 p.m.
Key Revisions- Universal Protocol
Case Study and Tools

9:30 -- 9:45 pm
BREAK

9:45 – 11:30 am
All NPSGs with Minimal or No Changes
Case Study and Tools

11:30 -- Noon
Q & A-- NPSG Resources

*Agenda subject to change. Last updated on February 23, 2009.

Hotel Information and Program Location
Marriott San Antonio Northwest
3233 NW Loop 410
San Antonio, TX 78213
Phone: 210-377-3900
Room rate: $120
Cut-off date: July 22, 2009

None Available for this Program

The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources/Joint Commission International value the relationships shared with corporate underwriters. Through support in the form of unrestricted grants, corporate underwriters provide an important means for enriching the content and quality of our products and services. For further details about opportunities for corporate underwriting support, please contact  Corinne Prabhaker, Corporate Development Manager at 630.268.3748 or cprabhaker@jcrinc.com or Nanne Finis, Executive Director, Consulting Services at 630.268.7429 or nfinis@jcrinc.com.

August 6-7, 2009, San Antonio, TX
Program code: 09036
Program fee: $500 per registrant
To register for this program, please call the Texas Hospital Association at 512-465-1057.

Please note:  JCR's concern for safety, quality and sustainability extends beyond the health care setting.  We will provide program handouts that are printed six slides to a page in an effort to reduce paper waste and mitigate our impact on the environment.  You will be able to download program materials from our website after the program has occurred.  The necessary login and password information will be provided to you at the conference/seminar.

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