Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW), an initiative from the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is designed to raise patient safety awareness among healthcare providers and consumers. This year, PSAW is March 11-17. It’s a great time to celebrate successes and re-focus on patient safety opportunities in your organization. The Center encourages providers and consumers to obtain information about patient safety issues. Below are highlights of Patient Safety Awareness Week activities.
Take advantage of the following resources and conferences to help launch a successful campaign! The Center’s highly anticipated Patient Safety Toolkit will be available for download by CPS Subscribers.
Join us on social media and check out these patient safety resources and tips we’re sharing during #PSAW2018!
Patient Safety Forum, March 14, 2018
Everyday across the country, healthcare is provided in many clinical settings and environments. Likewise, the healthcare landscape is complicated as it evolves at an ever-quickening pace with new specialties, titles and tools. Coupled with the growing demands placed on clinicians and healthcare leaders, how do we ensure the safety of our patients? Join us for this collaborative opportunity to learn with other providers across the continuum of care how patient safety can be improved.
Added Bonus! All attendees of the forum will become a Subscriber to CPS’s online resource center, which provides toolkits, special previews to upcoming events, and a community forum. Find out more about becoming a subscriber!
Second Victim Experience, March 19, 2018
Most health care providers adjust well to the multitude of demands encountered during an unexpected or traumatic clinical event. Providers often have strong emotional defenses that carry them through and let them “get the job done.” Yet sometimes the emotional aftershock (or stress reaction) can be difficult. Signs and symptoms of this emotional aftershock may last a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or longer.
Added Bonus! All attendees of the workshop will become a Subscriber to CPS’s online resource center, which provides toolkits, special previews to upcoming events, and a community forum. Find out more about becoming a subscriber!
Learn more about the Second Victim Workshop
The CPS Patient Safety Improvement Approach
The Center for Patient Safety believes every patient safety improvement journey includes an evaluation of your current culture. It’s important to use meaningful data to understand how staff perceive the organization’s approach to patient care. Our bundled approach gives you peace of mind that you’re working with the patient safety experts – and we want YOU to be successful!
Step 1: CPS administers a survey to your staff and provides a detailed interpretation of your results.
Step 2: We work closely with you to develop your action plans and next steps.
Step 3: Our work continues with you over the next six months to a year to provide education and training, workshops, resources and tools. We support you in reaching your goals!
Learn more about the CPS Patient Safety Approach through Culture Change
The Center for Patient Safety is proud to announce David Marx, leader of Outcome Engenuity, as our 2016 Annual Patient Safety Conference keynote speaker. As the “father of Just Culture”, David’s concepts have had steady involvement in patient safety over the last decade. Often, adverse events are the result of bad processes – not bad people. The strongest healthcare organizations have a culture that supports open communication. Staff can confidently talk about adverse events and the stage is set to learn why and how the mistakes happen. This is the only way we can work towards improvements in patient safety.
Stay tuned for more information!
Join the Center for Patient Safety on March 13th for our 9th Annual Patient Safety Conference. We just received confirmation of approval of 5.25 CE hours toward CPHQ recertification from the National Association for Healthcare Quality. Registration and more information.
The Center has lots of ideas for you!
Join us for our 9th Annual Patient Safety Conference on March 13th! Hurry to take advantage of Early Registration for the Conference available only through February 2nd!
Download our Patient Safety Awareness Week Toolkit with customizable banners, flyers, tent cards and more!
Submit a Poster Application to share a best practice at our March 13th Conference (submit by February 3rd and you will be entered into a drawing for a free Conference registration)!
The Center’s 9th Annual Conference on March 13, offers Continuing Education for physicians, risk managers and is pending for nursing and quality professionals. Conference information, registration and information about continuing education is available at https://www.centerforpatientsafety.org/2015conference.
The latest newsletter from the Center for Patient Safety PSO contains the latest highlights on Safety Alerts, Success Stories from real hospitals, information on Patient Safety Awareness Week 2015, and much more!
PSO Alert: Morphine v Midazolam.1
Safety Watch: Emergent Situations.2
Joint Commission Alert.3
Health IT Safety Webinar.3
Insulin Pens.4
EMS Corner.5
LTC Corner.5
CAUTI.6-7
Patient Safety Awareness Week.8-9
PSO Data Update.10-11
Read this newsletter or download any of our archived newsletters.
The Center for Patient Safety’s Annual EMS Patient Safety Conference was a success! We had great speakers who brought new ideas and concepts that helped stretch the imagination of those attending.
The Center is pleased to announce the date of our upcoming annual EMS Patient Safety Conference, scheduled for November 12, 2014. This conference is expected to be bigger and better than previous years, bringing national EMS experts together to share strategies to improve patient safety, highlight successful practices and provide broad networking opportunities to share successes and challenges. 7 CEUs available for attendees.
We invite you to register to attend or visit our conference page for more information!
Conference highlights include:
Limited sponsor/vendor opportunities are still available – Sign up today!
Even though the National Patient Safety Foundation doesn’t use LTC-inclusive language in its name or the name of its Patient Safety Awareness Week, they still have much to offer our long-term care communities, including a special week to recognize our dedication to resident safety. CPS has developed a toolkit to help ALL providers celebrate this special week from March 2-8, and to engage residents, staff and families.
In St. Louis County,Bethesda Southgate is getting its community focused on safety, using several of the CPS toolkit resources:
Anyone interested in using the materials can access the toolkit here. And don’t forget to share your safety success stories with a poster (submit a short application) at the CPS 8th Annual Patient Safety Conference in St. Louis on March 21.
The Center for Patient Safety is joining Patient Safety Awareness Week this March to acknowledge:
“Safe Care is Our Focus, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a yearâ€
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The Center for Patient Safety believes that collaboration and sharing are the best ways to drive improvement. We strive to provide the right solutions and resources to improve healthcare safety and quality.