Latest issue of Briefings on Patient Safety available through Patient Safety Monitor
Patient Safety Monitor Alert
May 5, 2010
The May issue of Briefings on Patient Safety has been posted to the Patient Safety Monitor. This issue contains a story about including all staff members in Patient Safety Awareness Week activities. The following is an excerpt from that article:
Next time you’re brainstorming a way to engage staff in a patient safety–related fair or observance, consider creating a quilt. That’s what staff at Boone (IA) County Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital, did to promote Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW), which took place March 7–14, and it was a big hit both for staff and for visitors to the hospital.
Boone County Hospital decided to utilize the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Ask Me 3™ program in creating the quilt. Ask Me 3 is a campaign to promote patient education by arming patients with three questions they should ask their caregivers. The departments at the facility identified specific questions that they often receive and creatively displayed them on a quilt square. Involving numerous departments within the facility in this project helped spread the message of PSAW hospitalwide.
Anna Green, who works in quality and patient safety at the hospital, sent out instructions to each department for how to determine the questions that would be displayed on its quilt square, as well as samples and suggestions for designing the square.
Additionally, Green provided some of the materials necessary for creating the square, simplifying the involvement required at the department level.
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