Patient Safety Authority

Everyone has an important role in patient safety, including admission registrars, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, environmental staff—and, especially, patients themselves. Share their inspiring stories by nominating someone (an individual or a team) for an I AM Patient Safety award. This year we have introduced new categories to highlight champions for their commitment to safety, solutions to address healthcare disparity, improving the medication administration process, and educating and engaging patients as partners in their own care. Learn more and submit your #IAPS2025 nominations by Saturday, January 4, 2025: https://lnkd.in/eRM3xJgN

In 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's theme for U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (#USAAW), November 18–24, is “Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance Takes All of Us.” The daily theme for November 20 is human health and antimicrobial resistance. It’s vital for both healthcare providers and patients to understand how and when to use antibiotics to treat and prevent illnesses. Be aware that antibiotics can only treat infections caused by bacteria, such as strep throat and urinary tract infections, not viruses. And antibiotics must only be taken as prescribed, and any unused medications should be properly disposed of. Read and share articles from PATIENT SAFETY that highlight measures hospitals and long-term care facilities can take to practice antibiotic stewardship: https://lnkd.in/eDyDENb4

There's still time to register for this Thursday's free webinar, "Nourishing Health Literacy: How to Serve Up Better Understanding." Healthcare providers in Pennsylvania play an important role in ensuring patients have the knowledge they require to make informed decisions. Effectively communicating appropriate details while addressing each patient’s unique needs and concerns remains a challenge for both providers and patients. The team will define health literacy, describe the scope and implications of the problem, identify the barriers that patients and providers have when trying to address low health literacy, and outline strategies to improve health literacy. 1.0 continuing education hours will be awarded for completion of this course. Continuing education credits apply to Pennsylvania registered nurses only. Register now at https://lnkd.in/eNjSZVwj

Everyone has an important role in patient safety, including admission registrars, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, environmental staff—and, especially, patients themselves. Share their inspiring stories by nominating someone (an individual or a team) for an I AM Patient Safety award. This year we have introduced new categories to highlight champions for their commitment to safety, solutions to address healthcare disparity, improving the medication administration process, and educating and engaging patients as partners in their own care. Learn more and submit your #IAPS2025 nominations by Saturday, January 4, 2025: https://lnkd.in/eRM3xJgN

Did you know that November is C. diff Awareness Month? Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a bacteria which can lead to diarrhea, colitis, and even death. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that C. diff causes nearly half a million infections in the United States each year. Although anyone can get a C. diff infection, certain factors increase their risk, including recent antibiotic use, previous C. diff infections or exposure, age (65 and older), whether they have been in a hospital or long-term care facility, and a weakened immune system. Learn more about how to appropriately diagnose and treat patients for C. diff: https://lnkd.in/eFYxdceG

Do you have a manuscript related to patient safety? Send it to our award-winning journal and it could be read by 75K+ people worldwide. Accepted articles are published on a rolling basis as soon as production has been completed. There are NO FEES for authors or readers. Check out our latest article and send us your best work! https://lnkd.in/ea_7HTg8

Join us on Thursday, November 21, 2024, from 12 to 1 p.m. for a free webinar: "Nourishing Health Literacy: How to Serve Up Better Understanding." Healthcare providers in Pennsylvania play an important role in ensuring patients have the knowledge they require to make informed decisions. Effectively communicating appropriate details while addressing each patient’s unique needs and concerns remains a challenge for both providers and patients. The team will define health literacy, describe the scope and implications of the problem, identify the barriers that patients and providers have when trying to address low health literacy, and outline strategies to improve health literacy. 1.0 continuing education hours will be awarded for completion of this course. Continuing education credits apply to Pennsylvania registered nurses only. Register now at https://lnkd.in/eNjSZVwj

Our November newsletter is here! Read vital strategies to safely dispense and administer sublingual nitroglycerin tablets, which present the risk of a 25-times overdose as they are supplied in multidose bottles with up to 25 tablets. Learn all about the Patient Safety Authority’s ambitious new strategic plan, Reimagine Patient Safety 2029. Read about how reporting medication errors helped a facility redesign their pharmacy process to replace the unreliable “pull back” method of compounding with an intravenous workflow system. And don’t miss our next webinar on Thursday, November 21 at 12 p.m.: “Nourishing Health Literacy: How to Server Up Better Understanding.” Read and share: https://lnkd.in/e8XkbxDh (PDF)

Join us tomorrow, November 6, from 12 to 1 p.m. EST, for "Shoulder Dystocia: Strategies for Action." This free webinar will cover the current state of serious events involving newborns related to labor and delivery in Pennsylvania facilities and provide a deeper look into the most commonly reported event: shoulder dystocia. Register at https://lnkd.in/eFGntfZ2 We will review challenges related to shoulder dystocia cases and evidence-based practices for prevention and response when a shoulder dystocia occurs, as well as steps that can be taken after such an event, to inform practitioners with the aim of improving outcomes for future instances.

Do you have a manuscript related to patient safety? Send it to our award-winning journal and it could be read by 75K+ people worldwide. Accepted articles are published on a rolling basis as soon as production has been completed. There are NO FEES for authors or readers. Check out our current issue and send us your best work! https://lnkd.in/eFZ5Xjex