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Goal #1 improve accuracy of patient
identification:
- Use at least two patient identifiers (neither to be
the patient’s room number) whenever administering medications
or blood products; taking blood samples and other specimens for clinical
testing or providing any other treatments or procedures
Goal #2 Improve the effectiveness
of communication among caregivers
- For verbal or telephone orders or for telephonic reporting
of critical test results, verify the complete order or test result
by having the person receiving the order or test result “read-back”
the complete order or test result
- Standardize a list of abbreviations, acronyms and
symbols that are not to be used throughout the organization (Lab
exempt on trailing zero. Sizes of endotracheal tubes & other clinical
equipment often specified numerically with one place after the decimal
point. This acceptable even when the number after the decimal is a
zero.)
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