Definitions
The prevention of harm (accidental or preventable injury) to patients.
What is Patient Safety?
The reporting system used to track safety trends at Porter Medical Center.
What is SQSS (Strategic Quality Support System)?
PASS is a fire safety acronym that stands for this. It is referring to fire safety equipment specifically.
What is pull, aim, squeeze and sweep?
What is a fire extinguisher?
When the action of a staff, practitioner, or patient prevents an error from reaching the patient.
What is a Near Miss?
When a form is found in the paper chart that does not belong to the current patient.
What is mis-filing or mis-labeling of patient information?
The nurse is preparing a patient for surgery. The nurse explains that this is the reason for writing in ink on the surgical site correct the word "correct" or patient's initials.
What is to distinguish the correct surgical site?
Preventable adverse events.
What is an error?
When medications are taken out of their secured areas and left at the patients bedside, at the desk, or other common areas.
What are unsecured medications?
Safety related issues should be reported and entered here,
What is SQSS?
"RACE" is a fire safety acronym that stands for this.
What is rescue, alarm, confine and extinguish?
A culture where individuals are held accountable for intentional unsafe acts but recognizes that individuals make unintentional errors and aren't responsible for systems failures (no blame).
What is a Just or Safety Culture?
The type of error when medications are not given at the right time or the right dose.
What is a medication error?
When an individual purposely voices concern for the safety of a patient to prevent an possible error or unsafe condition.
What is Speaking Up or Patient Safety Advocacy?
Safety cautious nurses know that performing this can reduce or prevent the transmission of disease from person to person.
What is proper hand hygiene?
An event that reaches a patient and results in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm that requires intervention to sustain life.
What is a Sentinel Event?
The systematic breakdown of an event where contributing factors are discussed and causal factors are identified to find the "root" of an error?
What is Systems Analysis or Root Cause Analysis?
The proactive monitoring and evaluation of everyday processes, methods, and workflows where possible safety concerns are identified before they impact a patients care.
What is a Great Catch?
To minimize adverse events and eliminate preventable harm in healthcare.
What is the goal of patient safety?