Friday, March 12, 2010

National Patient Safety Awareness Week

We have participated in the national calls and FHA calls. We had many of the tools in place before being part of the FHA Bsi Cusp project. We have all staff view the Josie and Safety/culture video and do the Culture tool. We also had active participation by all staff in the Safety video by discussion after viewing.Our hospital in November went to alcohol impregnated caps on central lines being placed in the ICUS and our IR department director is part of our team. The entire hospital is now getting on board with use of the alcohol impregnated caps for central lines on the floor. Our senior leadership, quality director and CNO are very active and we monitor central line opportunites real times with the guidance of our Infection Control team and Medical Director.The calls are always great and we learn from them, and bring back additional tools for providing safe, quality care to our patients.

Terrie Wood
Baptist Hospital
Surgical/Coronary Intensive Care Units
Director of Critical Care Services
FL

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