Posters
This poster has the following Tables on it:
Category
Examples
Required Practice
What is High Risk Medications?
This Audit verifies the overall cleanliness of the environment/space.
What are Visual Verification Audits?
These individuals are responsible for patient safety in our Health Departments?
Who are staff members?
This annual event encourages patients to understand what services and care are available to them in the community. Additionally it is interaction and educational and part of Public Health Intervention.
What is the "Annual Health Fairs"?
These ideas are worthy of being noted; however no indicator data can be collected as you would in a Quality Improvement Initiative.
What is a Notable Change?
This poster was implemented after the Client Experience Survey to address a Red Flag concerning appointment backlog and communication.
What is the Wait Times Poster?
This Audit verifies the proper Infection Control Practices from your fellow coworkers and is the best way to prevent the spread of infection. GVIW is the first to pilot this audit.
What is the Peer Hand Hygiene Audit?
Events that did not occur due to active recovery or chance that should be reported on a PSI
Note: the incident did not reach the patient
What are near misses?
This practice includes daily rounding with a patient's physician, nurse, and case management team.
What is Effective Communication and or Care Coordination?
The acronym DNUA stands for this.
DO NOT USE ABBREVIATIONS?
This poster shows a flowchart of what steps one must take if they feel that a behaviour/activity is not according to their moral principles.
Additionally; SBAR is an acronym for Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation; a technique that can be used to facilitate prompt and appropriate communication when dealing with these types of issues.
What is the Ethics Flowchart?
This Audit is assigned monthly to a nurse to complete and often results in 6 of this being completed.
What are Chart Audits?
A form used when reporting Adverse Med Events.
What is a Patient Safety Incident Form?
Patients can call this number/dept if there is a medical emergency and need help.
What is MCCP?
Using this type of equipment aids in stopping the spread of infection.
What is PPE?
This poster details a variety of actions one must take to ensure patient safety and reduce the number of accidental injuries (especially in our older offender population).
What is the Falls Prevention Poster?
This review is conducted to observe and protect our patients and clients from potential harm resulting from receiving incorrect care due to misidentification.
What is Client Identification Audit?
A tool used to determine and combine severity of consequence (or potential consequence) and likelihood of a Patient Safety Incident reoccurrence.
What is PSI Risk Rating Tool?
This survey measures patients perception of patient safety and care.
What is "Client Experience Survey"?
These ideas involve systematic activities that are organized and implemented by an organization to monitor, assess and improve its quality of healthcare.
What is Quality Improvement Initiatives?
This poster contains a flowchart of the appropriate steps to take to maintain our Equipment.
What is MDMP Flowchart? (Medical Device Maintenance Program)
Reviewing a patient's medication list for accuracy.
What is medication reconciliation?
The Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Officer at GVIW.
Who is Maria Azevedo
This survey measures staff members' perception of patient safety and is conducted every other year.
What is the Patient Safety Culture Survey?
Communication and Teamwork are two important aspects of this portion of the patient experience.
What is Patient Safety?