• 20 Tips To Prevent Medical Error

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Ask a family member or Friend to go with you. Even if you do not need help now, you might need it later (#17)

 

• ​Delivering Great Care: Engaging Patients and Families as Partners

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Families have been included in rounds in the ICU at Lourdes since early 2004, and Fuchs says it has worked well, saving nurses time and making patients and families happier. “The more they know, the better,” she says. For especially complex patients or situations in which daily rounds are not sufficient to cover the patient’s and family’s needs, separate patient care conferences are scheduled for families with all the relevant specialists.

 

• How Patient and Family Engagement Benefits Your Hospital

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• “Facts and Figures” About Family Presence and Participation

No Date                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Social Isolation is a risk factor . . . Research is clear that isolating patients at their most vulnerable times from the people who know them best places them at risk for medical error, emotional harm, inconsistencies in care, and costly unnecessary care.1,2

 

• Partnering with Families and Patient Advocates: Another Line of Defense in Adverse Event Surveillance

August 2019
In the July 16, 2019, issue of Pharmacy Practice News, ISMP president, Michael R. Cohen, published a noteworthy commentary about what healthcare consumers can do to help prevent medication errors.The inspiration for the commentary arose from significant dialog and questions received in response to articles ISMP published in this newsletter in early 2019.​

 

• Can Health Care Consumers Help Prevent Med Errors? 

July 2019
You likely heard about this incident in the news earlier this year: A woman died after receiving the paralyzing agent vecuronium instead of the sedative midazolam (Versed, discontinued brand) when the wrong medication was retrieved from an automated dispensing cabinet (ADC).

 

• Engaging Parents to Help Reduce Medical Errors in the Hospital

December 2018                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Rounds often happen without directly involving the patient—or more importantly when the patients are children, their parents. The program, named I-PASS (see box below), aimed to flip that by creating family-centered rounds. The program created checks to ensure that rounds include patients and parents, that medical staff discuss all important elements of care each day, and that parents receive write-ups of daily rounds. It also provided training for staff to learn how to facilitate family-centered rounds.

 

• Incorporating Patient Engagement into Patient Safety Initiatives

February 2018
Alongside clinical imperatives, strong patient engagement can supplement patient safety initiatives in the hospital.

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