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The annual recognition event intended to encourage healthcare professionals and patients to learn more about safety is known as this.
What is "Patient Safety Awareness Week"?
Preventable harm is a leading cause of death in the United Sates. True or False?
What is "True"?
The acronym “IHI” stands for this.
What is "Institute for Healthcare Improvement"?
An unplanned event that did not reach the patient and did not result in injury, illness or fatality, but has the potential to do so in the future if left unaddressed is known as this.
What is “near-miss event”?
This type of organization demonstrates preoccupation with failure, sensitivity to operations, reluctance to simplify, commitment to resilience, and deference to expertise.
What is "High Reliability Organization (HRO)"?
A process used by healthcare professionals to investigate how and why an event occurred with the intent of eliminating the possibility or reducing the likelihood of a future similar event is known as this.
What is "Root Cause Analysis (RCA)"?
The acronym SBAR stands for this.
What is “Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation"?
Identifying and addressing systems issues that lead individuals to engage in unsafe behaviors while maintaining individual accountability by establishing zero tolerance for reckless behavior is known as this.
What is “Just Culture”?
This is a tool used by providers to ensure that they have explained medical information clearly to patients by asking patients to state in their own words what was communicated.
What is “teach-back”?
Communication of key patient information from one caregiver, staff member, or care team to another is known as this.
What is “hand-off”?