S06 Simple_2022 HAP NPSG goals 101921.pdf
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This document outlines the 2022 National Patient Safety Goals established by The Joint Commission to improve patient safety at hospitals. The goals focus on key issues like ensuring correct patient identification, preventing surgical mistakes, reducing the risk of suicide, improving hand hygiene, properly labeling and managing medications, responding to medical equipment alarms, and communicating critical test results to the appropriate staff.
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2022 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals
The purpose of the National Patient Safety Goals is to improve patient safety. The goals focus on problems in health care safety and how to solve them.
This is an easy-to-read document. It has been created for the public. The exact language of the goals can be found at www.jointcommission.org.
Get important test results to the right staff person on time.
Reduce the risk for suicide.
Use the hand cleaning guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the World Health Organization. Set goals for improving hand cleaning. Use the goals to improve hand cleaning.
Make sure that the correct surgery is done on the correct patient and at the correct place on the patient’s body.
Mark the correct place on the patient’s body where the surgery is to be done.
Pause before the surgery to make sure that a mistake is not being made.
Use at least two ways to identify patients. For example, use the patient’s name and date of birth. This is done to make sure that each patient gets the correct medicine and treatment.
Identify patients correctly
NPSG.01.01.01
Prevent infection
NPSG.07.01.01
Improve staff communication
NPSG.02.03.01
Identify patient safety risks
NPSG.15.01.01
Prevent mistakes in surgery
UP.01.01.01
UP.01.02.01
UP.01.03.01
Before a procedure, label medicines that are not labeled. For example, medicines in syringes, cups and basins. Do this in the area where medicines and supplies are set up.
Take extra care with patients who take medicines to thin their blood.
Record and pass along correct information about a patient’s medicines. Find out what medicines the patient is taking. Compare those medicines to new medicines given to the patient.
Give the patient written information about the medicines they need to take. Tell the patient it is important to bring their up-to-date list of medicines every time they visit a doctor.
Use medicines safely
NPSG.03.04.01
NPSG.03.05.01
NPSG.03.06.01
Make improvements to ensure that alarms on medical equipment are heard and responded to on time.
Use alarms safely
NPSG.06.01.01
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