Global Patient Safety Flashcards
(18 cards)
Objetive of strategy number 5:
Inspire, educate, skill and protect health workers to contribute to the design and delivery of safe care systems
Explain Strategy 5.1: Incorporate patient safety within health professional education curricula and continuing professional development
- Reach an agreement with stakeholders responsible for standards and curriculum setting
- Provide advanced training in patient safety
- Scientific societies advise government on the patient safety education and programmes
Explain Strategy 5.2: Improve patient safety through the creation of strategic collaborations with centers
- Governments should select one or more national centers
- Use of simulations in training
- Define roles and responsabilities
- Develop an international network
Explain Strategy 5.3: Ensure that patient safety care competencies are part of regulatory requirements
- Work with licensing and accreditation bodies
- Conduct periodic assessments of patient safety competencies
- Bring together experts to promote the routine us of patient safety
Explain Strategy 5.4: Link commitment to patient safety with appraisal systems for heath care professionals and managers
- Establish internal appraisal systems to monitor staff competency
- Collaborate to define excellence
- Develop global standards, tools and methods
Explain Strategy 5.4: Design care settings, environments and practices to provide safe working conditions
- Develop linkages of patient safety programmes
- Adopt and implement relevant policies to prevent and eliminate violence
- Provide access to mental well-being and social support services
Objetive of strategy number 6:
Information, research and risk management
Explain Strategy 6.1: Establish or strengthen patient safety incident reporting and learning systems
- Establish systems for reporting patient safety incidents
- Create reporting mechanisms
- Raise awareness about the importance of reporting incidents
- Provide technical support to Member States
Explain Strategy 6.2: Create patient safety system that gathers data on risks and harm in healthcare
- Improve data sharing for patient safety
- Track and reduce avoidable harm
- Collaborate on better safety measurement and evaluation
- Monitor global patient safety progress
Explain Strategy 6.3: Establish, synergize and scale up patient safety surveillance systems to ascertain the causes of harm
- Surveillance by monitoring patient safety
- Support the setup of safety systems
- Surveillance which engaging in national and local safety monitoring
- Evaluate global avoidable harm an progresses
Explain Strategy 6.4: Develop active and funded patient safety research programmes
- Prioritize gains of knowledge that reduce damages
- Promote a good environment for research the causes of avoidable harm
- Maintain an up-to-date research strategy
Explain Strategy 6.5: Develop and implement digital solutions to improve safety of healthcare
- Develop a national digital health strategy that leverages solutions
- Implement and share feedback
- Develop and enhance digital technologies to identify risks
- Explode digital methods
Objetive of strategy number 7:
Key strategies for enhancing patient safety through collaboration
Explain Strategy 7.1: Engaging all stakeholders in patient safety
- Identify and engage key stakeholders
- Improve patients, caregivers and civil society in safety programmes and decision-making
- Develop guidelines and frameworks for multistakeholder engagement
Explain Strategy 7.2: Promoting a shared commitment to patient safety
- Develop a national patient safety policy
- Embed patient safety objectives into institutional policies
- Provide technical support for national implementation
Explain Strategy 7.3: Establishing patient safety networks & consultative mechanisms
- Develop national and regional patient safety committees
- Establish hospital-based safety networks
- Expand Global Patient Safety Networks
Explain Strategy 7.4: Advancing cross-geographical & multisectoral iniciatives
- Participate in multilateral health forums and summits
- Implement global practices
- Mobilize political commitment by engaging global organizations
Explain Strategy 7.5: Aligning patient safety with technical health programs
- Integrate patient safety standards into all national healthcare programs
- Align patient safety strategies with other clinical safety programs
- Foster strong cooperation
