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.