Safety Education Training Material
Safety
program
......Hospital has formulated a safety program to monitor the degree to which the risk of an
intervention/procedure or any unsafe contact in the care environment are
reduced for a patient, visitors and health care providers/ employees.
Objective of the
program
The
main objective of the safety program is to monitor and prevent the effect of
adverse events on the patients.
Scope of the program
Any
event that causes an inconvenience to the patient/patient party/employees is
covered under this program. ......Hospital maintains Incidence
Book to record any adverse events like but not limited to needle prick
injury, fall, wrong medication, medication errors such as wrong route, wrong
time etc. are noted down with details like date, time of occurrence, type of
event & corrective and preventive measures taken. Utmost care is taken so
that accidents do not occur, but in rare occurrences, where the harm is minimum
or nil to serious incidents, all are discussed and resolved by the team.
Composition
of the safety team-
The team comprises the Medical Director,
Consultant, Administrator, other Staff. As of
date following are the safety team members
a) DR.
b) MR.
c) MR.
d) Miss.
e) Miss.
Responsibilities
of Safety Committee:
To take a periodical safety round and see for any
violations or situations wherein the safety may be compromised. The safety
round elaborates all the points and hence they are not detailed here. The
safety round is done with the Administrator.
Frequency
of meeting:
The
team meets once in 6 months or as required to discuss if any issues were
noticed / reported with respect to the events mentioned. The team also takes
periodical safety and facility rounds and notes the discrepancies, if any, in
the round book. In case any incidents are present, the action is taken and
recorded. The minutes of meeting are recorded in the Minutes Book
Sentinel events:
According
to the definition, a sentinel event is : “an
unexpected incident, related to system or process deficiencies, which leads to
death or major and enduring loss of function for a recipient of health care
services. Major and enduring loss of function refers to sensory, motor,
physiological or psychological impairment not present at the time services were
sought or begun. The impairment lasts for a minimum period of two weeks and is
not related to an underlying condition”.
All
staff should be proactive when any of the above kinds of problems occur in the
hospital premises. The escape routes should be informed to the patients and
staff should guide them to their safety.
The
facilities inside the organization should be utilized as an immediate, initial
help. Assistance from civil authorities like Fire, Police, Ambulance services,
etc. should be taken to prevent further damage to human life.
The
hospital has identified community disasters that can result in an inundation of
casualties. The hospital is equipped to
provide basic first aid and treat the problems. For further management of the
medication/ treatment, the patients are sent to other hospitals. The patient is
accompanied by a doctor to the other hospital.