Lab Assigment: Patient Safety

Patient Safety

The mission of all health care providers is to make people well. As a consequence, all employees must be concerned about patient safety. This is one of the main considerations of TJC accreditation, and it should be on the minds of everyone working in a medical facility, all of the time. Watch this video that explains how organizations should ensure patient safety.

What Is Patient Safety? (2:57)https://youtu.be/_wzdmaWJ69E

Read the Evaluating Patient Safety (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. PDF on how to evaluate a facility for patient safety. (Optional)

Read the Engaging Patients To Help With Patient Safety And Quality Of Care article on how to engage patients in order to help ensure their safety. (Optional)

Assignment:

Review the data in What's Wrong with this Data? (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. In a Word document, summarize why the author feels it is misleading. Your work should be three or more paragraphs. Save the file as "PatientSafety"