Medical Service Professional’s Role in Improving Patient Safety and Decreasing Organizational...
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Medical Service Professional’s Role in Improving Patient Safety and Decreasing
Organizational Legal Risk
November 13, 2015
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A patient story…
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Decreasing Legal Risk
• Primary source verification• Completed appointment forms• Sharing previous case history with legal
or credentialing committee
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• Normal course of business
• Hammond v. Saini – NC Supreme Court decision
• Protecting your documents
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• Peer Review• Confidentiality• Protection• Safety
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• Patient Safety • Participating in Root
Cause Analysis• Encouraging frank
safety discussion
• Risk reduction– Regulatory issues– Medical Staff bylaws– Rules & Regulation– Policies
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Decreasing Risk
• Physicians are part of the TEAM!• Leadership• Ownership• They are not the expert in everything
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Improving Patient Safety
Just CulturePunitive environment
TransparencySecrecy
Patient CenteredProvider Centered
Interdependent collaborative, interprofessional teamwork
Reliance on independent, individual performance excellence
System failuresErrors as individual failures
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Improving Patient Safety
Just CulturePunitive environment
TransparencySecrecy
Patient CenteredProvider Centered
Interdependent collaborative, interprofessional teamwork
Reliance on independent, individual performance excellence
System failuresErrors as individual failures
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Improving Patient Safety
Simulation practice insertionsInsertions with supervisionStandardize insertion kits
Barrier on proximal end to hold it
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System failuresErrors as individual failures
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Skill based error – honest mistake
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Just CulturePunitive environment
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• Skill based error – honest mistake
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Just CulturePunitive environment
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Share the story, peers learn from honest mistakes made from others
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TransparencySecrecy
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Improving Patient Safety
Patient had IO access and fistulaCulture is to place CVC during Code Blue
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Patient CenteredProvider Centered
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Improving Patient Safety
Designate a CVC buddy to assist with procedure and/or to determine that all
equipment, including guidewire, is retrieved appropriately following
procedure
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Interdependent collaborative, interprofessional teamwork
Reliance on independent, individual performance excellence
Medical Service Professional’s Role in Improving Patient Safety and Decreasing
Organizational Legal Risk
November 13, 2015