title: Environmental rounds: implementation of a continuous clinical safety improvement program.
abstract: The environmental rounds survey process at the UCLA NPI & H has been effective in providing clinicians and administrators with continuous data regarding clinical safety. This formal hospital-wide process is complemented by informal environmental rounds made periodically by clinical nurse managers and unit managers. Through these efforts, clinical safety is maintained by eradicating actual and potential patient/staff safety hazards.
authors: Psychiatric Institute of America, Long Beach, CA.
authors: L R
authors: LR
authors: Pelletier
authors: E C
authors: EC
authors: Poster
mesh_terms: D000056:Accident Prevention; D002140:California; D003625:Data Collection; D004869:Equipment Safety / Q000592:standards; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D012449:Safety