NURSE SENSITIVE INDICATORS
INFECTION PREVENTION
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
REGULATORY & COMPLIANCE
SAFECONNECT
HEALTH INFORMATICS
100
On average, this adverse event incurs ~$40,000 per occurrence to health care systems.
What are Pressure Injuries?
100
This is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of infections.
What is Hand Hygiene?
100
The Hero award, which is given to those who work hard to create a culture of patient safety, was awarded to this RRH hospital 3 times in 2018.
What is United Memorial Medical Center?
100
Four of the five hospitals at RRH are accredited by this organization.
What is The Joint Commission?
100
In 2018, this was the most commonly reported event type in SafeConnect across all of Rochester Regional Health hospitals, offices, and long term care centers.
What Are Falls?
100
This medical specialty board certification focuses on behavioral science, healthcare and IT; in the context of leadership, collaboration and professionalism; to improve patient care and clinician wellness.
What is Clinical Informatics?
200
This increases a patient's length of stay by an average of 6.3 days, with an estimated cost per occurrence of more than $14,000.
What are Falls?
200
You can't get a catheter associated urinary tract infection without this device.
What is an indwelling catheter?
200
All 5 acute care hospitals at Rochester Regional Health have this designation, which helps hospitals improve the care of older adults.
What is NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders).
200
Rochester General Hospital achieved initial credentialing for this program in November 2018.
What is The Joint Commission Disease Specific Care VAD program?
200
This type of an event describes a situation in which an error occurred, but it did not reach the patient.
What is a Good Catch?
200
CareConnect based RRH hospitals have this stage of achievement of EMR adoption according to HIMSS.
What is Stage 7?
300
In 2018 RRH launched this program to support nursing excellence and promote nursing professional development.
What is the Certification Recognition Program?
300
This disease is spread by contact with blood and body fluids, and currently is causing an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
What is Ebola?
300
This award is given from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) to units for exhibiting the highest quality standards, exceptional care of patients and their families, and health work environments.
What is the Beacon Award?
300
Administrative policies and procedures are housed and accessed here.
What is the Rochester Regional Health home page?
300
This SafeConnect event category should be used when reporting events pertaining to violence, property damage, or drug activity.
What is Security Event?
300
These specialty-specific expert groups that work with and on behalf of their peers include 500 RRH team members.
What are Advisory Groups?
400
Ongoing research studies indicate that nurses with this level of education experience better patient outcomes, and higher competency in nursing practice.
What is a bachelor’s degree?
400
This program is estimated to save hospitals $200,000 to $900,000 dollars per year in antibiotic costs.
What is an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program?
400
Housed at the Wegman Center for Workforce Development, this program was named a Top 100 Workforce Training Program by the Rochester Business Journal.
What is the Isabella Graham Hart School of Practical Nursing?
400
Clifton Springs Hospital is accredited by this agency, which uses ISO standards.
What is the DNV?
400
This type of event is the most commonly reported event in SafeConnect among RRH’s 5 acute care hospitals.
What are Medication Events?
400
This is a peer to peer training and support program for physicians and advanced practice providers.
What is the STS program? (Specialist Trainers)
500
In order to receive this designation, RRH nursing units have to be better than 50% of the benchmark, 50% of the time for their quality indicators.
What is Magnet?
500
This category of isolation precautions is useful in preventing the spread of communicable diseases spread through larger microorganisms launched into the air, such as influenza.
What is "Droplet Precautions"?
500
In 2019, Rochester General Hospital received this prestigious award, which distinguishes the top 1% of hospitals in the nation for consistent clinical quality based on an analysis of risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates across a spectrum of common inpatient procedures and conditions.
What is HealthGrades "Americas 50 Best Hospitals Award"?
500
In 2019, the regulatory team looks forward to launching an electronic tracer tool in this Rochester Regional Health event reporting program.
What is SafeConnect?
500
In addition to visiting the Employee Health office, an RRH team member who sustains any type of injury while working should enter this type of event in SafeConnect.
What is an Employee Event?
500
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What is Information Technology for Usability and Safety?