Checklist used by San Diego's 2 North-South Medical-Surgical teams to help conduct safety observations while the team turns or lifts a patient.
Format:
PDF and Word DOC
Size:
1 page, 8½” x 11”
Intended Audience:
Teams working on improving the pre-surgery process for patients.
Best used:
Use this document as a model to consider how your facility might revamp the presurgery process and create your own one-page checklist for patients. This checklist was developed by a multidepartmental team in South San Francisco that wanted to streamline the presurgery process for patients. As a result of using it, 80 percent of patients are now being confirmed as pre-admitted 24 hours before surgery and the completeness and accuracy of admissions rate has hit 99.4 percent.
Read more about the process in the Fall 2010 Hank.
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This tool, developed by the Department of Care and Service Quality, is designed to help KP in spreading successful practices widely.
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This list is adapted from material prepared by the National Attendance Program Strategic Planning Incentives task team.