Patient Safety

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How to Find UBT Basics on the LMP Website

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LMP Website Overview

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How to Find How-To Guides

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How to Find and Use Team-Tested Practices

Does your team want to improve service? Or clinical quality? If you don't know where to start, check out the team-tested practices on the LMP website. This short video shows you how. 

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How to Use the Search Function on the LMP Website

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How to Find the Tools on the LMP Website

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Changing Times, Changing Care

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Without well-child visits, many young patients are not receiving recommended immunizations for preventable diseases, including measles and whooping cough. The Fontana Pediatrics team brainstormed and developed a drive-up vaccine clinic.

 

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Health and Safety Champions — August 2022 Focus

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UBT health and safety champions

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Safety first. Use your voice and be heard. Help create a Free to Speak culture on your team.

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Health and Safety Champions — August 2022 Focus

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PDF

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One page, 8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
UBT health and safety champions

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Safety first. Use your voice and be heard. Help create a Free to Speak culture.

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Health and Safety Champions — April 2022 Focus

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UBT health and safety champions

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Safety is everyone's responsibility. Be aware of what's around you and keep these tips top of mind.

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Speaking Up for New Moms

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This labor and delivery team cultivates a #FreeToSpeak culture, which has helped members provide consistently excellent care and service to new moms. 

Tips for Keeping Patients Safe

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How to make KP the safest place to get and to give care

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Health care workers’ first obligation is “do no harm”— to see that the members and patients in our care suffer no injury or further illness. Unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente launch hundreds of projects every year to improve patient safety. These tips can your guide your team in a patient safety improvement project and help ensure that KP is the safest place to get and to give care.

  1. Wash your hands often, and in accordance with local policies and procedures.
  2. Speak up if you observe a drift from safe practice. As the saying goes, “If you see something, say something!”
  3. Make sure patients (or family members) understand their diagnosis and plan of care. Have them describe, in their own words, their condition, what they need to do next and why that’s important.
  4. Label specimens accurately, completely and legibly.
  5. When administering high-alert medications have two people separately check specific steps of the process. For example, a pharmacist calculates dosage, prepares a syringe and compares the product to the order; then a nurse independently does the same and compares the results.
  6. Use tools such as SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) and clear language like “Safety Check” to identify a hazard, if someone is uncertain and does not feel it’s safe for the patient to proceed. 
  7. Keep yourself free from injury so you can keep your patients free from harm.

 

Provide Good Care, Save With Secondary Tubing

  • Looking for less expensive options, like switching from primary tubing to secondary tubing
  • Using secondary instead of primary tubing for IV patients, whenever it is medically safe
  • Working through the change so everyone on the team understands and adapts

What can your team do to make sure it's using the right supplies for the job? What else could your team do to keep KP affordable for patients and members?

 

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