ROPs
The infection control ROPs that apply to Primary Health Care concern compliance, education and training for this infection control measure.
What is hand hygiene?
From January - April 2022 there were 144 incidents of this in NZ.
What is misidentification?
This is the term for a "dress rehearsal" version of a site visit.
What is a mock tracer?
The expansion of safety huddles and leadership safety rounds were identified as priority initiatives as part of 2020 improvement plan relating to this survey.
What is Patient Safety Culture (PSC)?
This Monday in October 2022 is the first day of site visits week for Nova Scotia Health.
What is October 17?
This category of ROPs that apply to Primary Health Care concerns the management and disclosure of incidents to clients.
What is patient safety culture?
An effective tool to communicate Quality information at a glance.
What is a Quality board?
These are the staff members who accreditation surveyors are allowed to speak with as part of their assessment.
Anyone and everyone.
The results of this "reflective" survey will help inform prioritization of standards and ROPs in upcoming accreditation huddles.
What is Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ)?
The review of survey results to identify goals, questions, actions, measures, accountability, and timeframe to produce this document.
What is an Action Plan?
This program helps ensure medical devices, medical equipment, and medical technology are safe and funct ional.
What is Preventive Maintenance?
Gathering of staff for short period of time to discuss safety issues
What are safety huddles?
Name, date of birth, and address or health card number.
What is client identifiers?
Accreditation surveyors will have copies of both results and action plans for these two surveys on-hand during site visits.
What are Work-Life Pulse (WLP) and Patient Safety Culture (PSC)?
This is the reason we are having this meeting today.
To inform and help team members
Medication Use ROPs include antimicrobial stewardship, high-alert medications, heparin safety and safety for this class of pain medication.
What are narcotics?
Sharing of information relevant to patient care.
What is information transfer?
This is when sites should be prepared for a site visit.
What is always?
NSH action plans (Work-Life Pulse, Patient Safety Culture and Patient Experience Survey) and pre-survey documents will be submitted to Accreditation Canada during this month of 2022.
What is August?
Rather than coordinating accreditation provincially as it did in 2017, this is the level at which accreditation efforts are being coordinated in 2022.
What is zone-level?
Worklife/Workforce ROPs include client flow, preventive maintenance and workplace ________ prevention.
What is violence?
NS Health staff can go here when they need help making difficult choices or when there is disagreement about what is most important.
What is Ethics committee/consult?
You would fill out a _____ report if a fax went to the wrong place.
What is SIMS?
While a report on this survey being conducted must be provided to Accreditation Canada, the results do not appear in the accreditation report.
What is Patient Experience Survey?
Of Accreditation Canada's four levels of awards: Not Accredited, Accredited, Accredited with Commendation, and Accredited with Exemplary Standing, Nova Scotia Health received this level of accreditation in 2017.
What is Accredited?