From the nations leading experts in healthcare safetythe first comprehensive guide to delivering care that ensures the safety of patients and staff alike.
One of the primary tenets among healthcare professionals is, First, do no harm. Achieving this goal means ensuring the safety of both patient and caregiver. Every year in the United States alone, an estimated 4.8 million hospital patients suffer serious harm that is preventable. To address this industry-wide problemand provide evidence-based solutionsa team of award-winning safety specialists from Press Ganey/Healthcare Performance Improvement have applied their decades of experience and research to the subject of patient and workforce safety. Their mission is to achieve zero harm in the healthcare industry, a lofty goal that some hospitals have already accomplishedwhich you can, too.
Combining the latest advances in safety science, data technology, and high reliability solutions, this step-by-step guide shows you how to implement 6 simple principles in your workplace.
1. Commit to the goal of zero harm.
2. Become more patient-centric.
3. Recognize the interdependency of safety, quality, and patient-centricity.
4. Adopt good data and analytics.
5. Transform culture and leadership.
6. Focus on accountability and execution.
InZero Harm, the worlds leading safety experts share practical, day-to-day solutions that combine the latest tools and technologies in healthcare today with the best safety practices from high-risk, yet high-reliability industries, such as aviation, nuclear power, and the United States military. Using these field-tested methods, you can develop new leadership initiatives, educate workers on the universal skills that can save lives, organize and train sal#ò