| 2016 NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY GOALS |
| Improve the accuracy of patient identification |
| NPSG.01.01.01 |
Use at least two patient identifiers when providing care, treatment and services. For example, use the patient’s name and date of birth. |
| NPSG.01.03.01 |
Eliminate transfusion errors related to patient misidentification. Make sure that the correct patient gets the correct blood when they get a blood transfusion. |
| Improve staff communication |
| NPSG.02.03.01 |
Report critical results of tests and diagnostic procedures on a timely basis. |
| Improve the safety of using medications |
| NPSG.03.04.01 |
Label all medications, medication containers and other solutions on and off the sterile field in perioperative and other procedural settings. |
| NPSG.03.05.01 |
Reduce the likelihood of patient harm associated with the use of anticoagulant therapy. |
| NPSG.03.06.01 |
Maintain and communicate accurate patient medication information. |
| Reduce the harm associated with clinical alarm systems |
| NPSG.06.01.01 |
Improve the safety of clinical alarm systems. |
| Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections |
| NPSG.07.01.01 |
Use the hand cleaning guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the World Health Organization. |
| NPSG.07.03.01 |
Implement evidence-based practices to prevent health care-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms in acute care hospitals. |
| NPSG.07.04.01 |
Implement evidence-based practices to prevent infection of the blood from central line. |
| NPSG.07.05.01 |
Implement evidence-based practices to prevent surgical site infections. |
| NPSG.07.06.01 |
Implement evidence-based practices to prevent indwelling catheter-associated urinary tract infections. |
| Identify patient safety risks |
| NPSG.15.01.01 |
Identify patients at risk for suicide. |
| Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure and Wrong Person Surgery |
| UP.01.01.01 |
Conduct a pre-procedure verification process. |
| UP.01.02.01 |
Mark the procedure site. |
| UP.01.03.01 |
A time-out is performed before the procedures. |
| NOTE: The following Joint Commission Patient Safety Goals have been integrated into the Joint Commission Standards, but still are expectations and important to the overall goals of Patient Safety: |
● Read-back verbal orders
● Unacceptable Abbreviations
● High Alert Drugs and Look-Alike/Sound Alike Drugs |
● SBAR Reporting Format
● Fall Reduction
● Patient Involvement in Own Care
● Rapid Response Team/Condition H |