Meeting the Joint Commission's 2013 National Patient Safety Goals

Meeting the Joint Commission's 2013 National Patient Safety Goals
2013 © Joint Commission Resources
Jim Parker
ISBN-13: 978-1-59940-755-5

Description

This E-book provides a compendium of practical advice and helpful tips for implementing the 2013 National Patient Safety Goals in various types of health care organizations. Understand how to meet the Joint Commission's 2013 National Patient Safety Goals with these valuable articles, book excerpts, useful tips, and suggestions. This e-book includes previously published articles from various JCR publications and provides detailed information on topics such as:

  • • Improving the accuracy of patient identification
  • • Improving the timely reporting of critical test results and values
  • • Improving the safety of using high-alert medications
  • • Preventing health care-associated pressure ulcers
  • • Reducing the risk of patient harm resulting from falls
  • • Using the Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Person Surgery™

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