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Health Literacy Checklist: Evaluating Patient Documents

WebHealth Literacy Checklist: Evaluating Patient Documents This sample checklist of health literacy principles may be used when creating or evaluating documents, such

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A Systems and Behavioral Approach to Improve Hand Hygiene …

WebOptimal hand hygiene is a critical component in any process focused on achieving and sustaining zero incidents of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Pennsylvania …

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Healthcare Worker Fatigue: Current Strategies for Prevention

WebFatigue is described by Dr. A. E. Rogers as an overwhelming sense of tiredness, lack of energy, and feeling of exhaustion associated with impaired physical and/or cognitive …

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What You Need to Know

WebIn this edition we share information, tools, and resources everyone can use to help keep patients safe. What You Need to Know. The Patient Safety Authority (PSA) offers many …

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Diagnostic Error Patient Safety Topic

WebInfluencing a Culture of Learning from Diagnostic Errors at a Health System At Geisinger, the multidisciplinary Committee to Improve Clinical Diagnosis and the Safer Dx Learning …

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More than Complicated, Healthcare Delivery is Complex, Adaptive, …

WebIt may help to recognize that healthcare delivery is not just complicated, it is a complex adaptive system that evolves over time. 3-4 At the “person” level, complex adaptive …

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Healthcare-Associated Infections Patient Safety Topic

WebOverview. Healthcare-Associat ed Infections (HAIs) are infections that patients get while receiving treatment for medical or surgical conditions, and many HAIs are preventable. …

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Preparing the next generation of nurses highlighted in PATIENT …

WebHow a peer support program improves care for all – Jefferson Health’s RISE program is a psychological first-aid, peer-support team for distressed healthcare workers …

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Checklists: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Advisory

WebThe Ugly. Checklists have the potential to create a negative impact. 12 They can be too long, hard to use, or impractical; 1 they may penalize efficiency, 11 decrease participant …

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Event Reporting Home

WebEvent reports can be the first indication of underlying problems, regardless of whether harm occurs. They also can be tools to trigger change facilitywide—or even nationwide. Click …

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Healthcare-Associated Infection Reporting in Pennsylvania

WebWhat is the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority? The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority (Authority) is a non-regulatory independent state agency

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PA-PSRS PA-PSRS

WebAbout PA-PSRS. The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority developed the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System, known as PA-PSRS (pronounced "PAY-sirs"), a …

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PATIENT SAFETY: COLOR BANDING Standardization and …

WebPurpose. A clearly defined and consistently implemented practice for identifying and communicating patient risk factors or special needs by standardizing the use of color …

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SAMPLE POLICY ON SKIN TEAR MANAGEMENT

WebCategory II - partial tissue loss, considered scant when the loss is 25% or less and moderate or large when the tissue loss is more than 25%. Category III - complete tissue loss or no …

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Patient Safety Authority

WebThe World Health Organization (WHO) declared 2020 the Year of the Nurse in honor of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. COVID had other plans.

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Act 52 of 2007: the Authority’s Role, Progress to Date, and Future

WebSenate Bill 968 (Act 52) was signed into law by Governor Edward G. Rendell on July 20, 2007, as part of the Prescription for Pennsylvania healthcare reform plan. Act 52 focuses …

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Contracting for Safety: A Misused Tool Advisory

WebOne of those lessons learned was my knowledge of the limited value of “contracting for safety” or “no-suicide contracts” (NSCs) to prevent suicide. I found through discussions …

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Mary Ellen Mannix Patient Safety Authority

WebMary Ellen Mannix, MRPE, is a lifelong Early Childhood Educator dedicated to children’s healthy development in schools, communities, and the health care system. She currently …

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or Infrastructure Failure

Webor Infrastructure Failure. Definitions. • Serious Event: An event, occurrence or situation involving the clinical care of a patient in a medical facility that results in death or …

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Handoff Communications: A Systems Approach

WebHandoffs between healthcare workers occur hundreds to thousands of times each day, creating opportunities to identify effective handoff communications. The Joint …

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Two-Person Patient Verification Form

Web1 Peaa Pae ae Page 1 Two-Person Patient Verification Form Name: _____ DOB: _____ Exam: _____

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