Keeping patients safe--procedure and site verification and preprocedure pause.
PATIENT SAFETY GOALS are part of new policies issued by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. THESE NEW POLICIES led Inova Health System, Falls Church, Va, to develop a standardized, system-wide policy for procedure verification and a preprocedure pause. THE MULTIFACILITY COMPANY overcame a variety of obstacles to implement a system that could be used across all departments in five hospitals.
Rusynko
Barbara
B
Inova Health System, Falls Church, VA, USA.
Perry-Ewald
Judith
J
D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000451:nursing / Q000592:standards*; D014768:Virginia