2021 National Patient Safety Goals.

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Select one of the 2021 National Patient Safety Goals.
Share your thoughts about the opportunities and challenges related to achieving the goal in your work environment.

 

 

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To help healthcare facilities in provide safer, more equitable care, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recently developed a plan intended to eliminate patient harm incidents around the world within the next decade. In addition, the Joint Commission has recently released National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) that represent emerging patient safety issues. The Joint Commission has outlined seven patient safety goals for hospitals to focus on in 2021, including: Identify patients correctly. Staff should use at least two ways to verify the identity of patients, such as name and date of birth. This will reduce medication errors and ensure patients receive the prescribed treatment. It is a key safeguard for all patients, especially those who cannot communicate independently, such as newborns.

The CEO has demonstrated a lack of ability to communicate detail when unveiling a vision for the future of the organization. The CEO frequently discusses ideas for the future of the organization with the leadership team and has the ability to create excitement among the leaders about new ideas and projects. However, there is a lack of follow through and detail regarding how these objectives will be met. This includes failure to give deadlines for having elements of a project finished, so leadership does not have a timeline for achieving many of the objectives required in order to make the CEO’s vision a reality.

The CEO has a tendency to overlook the reality of a situation and ignore certain truths when they contradict an idea he has for how he would like the culture of the organization to be perceived. When there was an increase in patient falls on the units with the largest nurse and nursing assistant staffing shortage the CEO decided to put a process in place where the nurses for the patients had to go and explain the circumstances surrounding the fall and sign a corrective action plan and coaching form related to fall prevention. The issue of falls occurring because of not enough staff came up frequently during these meetings but the CEO instructed the leadership that the idea of staffing shortages creating unsafe working conditions for both patients and staff could not be supported or encouraged. This led to a culture where the staff felt that there input was not valued by the leadership team and was viewed as a contributing factor to continued staff turnover.

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