Week 2 Creative Practice Document
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Infection Control
Hand hygiene is the most important intervention for preventing Hospital Acquired Infections. The Center for Transforming Healthcare has many ideas for solutions available to remind caregivers the necessity of remembering to wash hands before and after seeing a patient. Practicing this behavior daily for a month can lead to the development of a habit. To prevent the spread of infectious disease in the hospital environment this is a habit that we owe our patients and self to form.
Patient Safety
Lightness to dark
can come quickly when addressing the safety of patient. It is so vitally
important. There were no new National Patient Safety Goals For 2015, however,
NPSG.15.02.01 on home oxygen safety has been modified for the home care
accreditation program, and some minor language changes were made to
NPSG.03.04.01 on labeling medications for the hospital, critical access
hospital, ambulatory and office-based surgery accreditation programs as
reported from Joint Commission standards.
HIPAA
Privacy Rule provides federal protections for
individually identifiable health information held by covered entities and their
business associates and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that
information. At the same time, the Privacy Rule is balanced so that it permits
the disclosure of health information needed for patient care and other
important purposes. The Security Rule specifies a series of
administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for covered entities
and their business associates to use to assure the confidentiality, integrity,
and availability of electronic protected health information.
http://www.jointcommission.org/standards_information/npsgs.aspx http://www.jointcommission.org/topics/hai_hand_hygiene.aspx
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