Announcing a new Patient Safety Monitor Blog contest!
Our contest last summer was such at hit that we’ve decided to launch a new contest in honor of the upcoming Patient Safety Awareness Week, which takes place from March 7-13. The contest is simple: Send in examples (this can be stories or written accounts, tools/forms, policies/procedures, etc.) of how your hospital is complying with the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG). Have you run any events this year to teach staff about the 2010 NPSGs? Are you planning anything special in honor of Patient Safety Awareness Week?
I invite all blog readers to submit a description and any accompanying materials to me, Heather Comak, (editor of this blog) at hcomak@hcpro.com of any creative patient safety events that your facility has hosted to promote patient safety. I will post some of the entries a few times a week to showcase what has been sent in. After Patient Safety Awareness Week has passed, a panel of judges here at HCPro will choose which entry piqued their curiosity most and also trains staff best about the 2010 NPSGs. The winner will receive a free copy of The 2010 National Patient Safety Goals Calculator which helps users track NPSG compliance.
About the Author: Heather Comak is a Managing Editor at HCPro, Inc., where she is the editor of the monthly publication Briefings on Patient Safety, as well as patient safety-related books, webcasts, and audio conferences. She is also is the Assistant Director of the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (www.accreditationprofessional.com) and manages Patient Safety Monitor (www.patientsafetymonitor.com), of which this blog is a part.
Contact Heather by e-mailing hcomak@hcpro.com
Edwin | Mar 10, 2010 | Reply
Here at Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba we have taken every mode of the media to promote NPSW. I have developed a Power Point Slide that is seen by all base residents in providing information about the NPSW. Also, with the base newspaper wrote an article that spoke about about what the NPSW is about and how it infroms them. I also set up a promotional table in front of the hospital with information phamplets on all issues from sugical site infection to speak up brochures. I also was on the radio to speak on the what NPSW is and how it involves the residents in thier health care.