A nurse manager is trying to implement the Joint Commission (JC) patient safety goals for 2006 pertaining to time organization. One of those goals is to:
a. improve the effectiveness of critical alarm systems.
b. eliminate wrong-site, wrong-patient, and wrong-procedure.
c. improve the safety of infusion pumps.
d. standardize the approach to hand off communication.
D
Improving the effectiveness of communication among caregivers (hospital goal # 2) was expanded in
2006 (hospital goal # 2E) to "implement a standardized approach to ‘hand off' communications,
including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions," which pertains directly to end-of-shift
reports and the "handing off" of patients from one location (such as surgery or admission from another
unit) to another.
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