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Transitions in Patient Care Global Edition: Softbound Book Softbound Book
+ bonus CD-ROM
This guide gives you instructions on how to implement the "Hand-off Communication" National Patient Safety Goal - directly from one of the Joint Commission experts who helped to design it! Hand-Off Communication offers clear advice for compliance. The book explores many of the problems and challenges you face during the hand-off process, developing a policy and implementing it, and identifies the resources you’ll need to meet the surveyor scrutiny. Hand-Off Communication highlights specific staff roles and techniques for staff training, while identifying the barriers that must be overcome in order to apply the standard effectively. Filled with practical strategies, case studies and tools, this useful guide and companion CD-ROM provide everything you need to understand how to comply, including:
You’ll get the tools you need to create your facility’s hand-off process. Learn to develop a policy, how to implement it, and how to monitor its effectiveness. Through FAQs, case studies, and helpful tools, Hand-Off Communication provides a comprehensive resource for hand-off methods and strategies. From cutting-edge methodologies like SBAR (situation-background-analysis-response) to time-saving tips, this timely how-to book offers a variety of compliance guidance for any size organization on this critical National Patient Safety Goal.
In a perfect world, medical information
moves with the patient, so caregivers can stay informed at every
turn. However, patient handoffs, also known as handovers or patient
care transitions, are too often and too easily disrupted due to
factors such as interruptions, lack of clarity with the process,
non-standardized technique, or incomplete information.
Handoff Communication also features a foreword written by Dr. Thanasekaran Sinnathamby, group vice president of quality and chief medical officer at Singapore-based Parkway Hospitals, which touches on one hospital system’s efforts to improve handoff communication.
You will meet the Joint Commission's Hand-Off Communication Goal. The Joint Commission’s new National Patient Safety Goal reads simply: "Implement a standardized approach to 'hand off' communications, including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions." That leaves you to figure out what constitutes a hand-off, how to design a standardized approach, and how to implement it. Hand-offs have emerged as hot-button patient safety issues for The Joint Commission-accredited healthcare organizations. In a perfect world, medical information moves with the patient, so caregivers can stay informed at every turn. Although the goal is for a seamless transition, the hand-off from one caregiver to another, one unit to another, one shift to another, patient care can often be disrupted due to:
Be survey ready. If your organization has questions about the hand-off communication process or doesn’t know where to start in developing a standardized approach, this book provides all needed answers. Now, you can train your staff to communicate clearly and completely during every patient hand-off. In Hand-Off Communication, author Kurt Patton, former Executive Director of Accreditation Services for the Joint Commission on Accreditation Organization (The Joint Commission), addresses common communication challenges you face with the kind of guidance only a former The Joint Commission accreditation specialist can provide. Who should read this book?
Tools, resources and guidance are provided under the following chapter headings:
Kurt Patton is the principal of Patton Healthcare Consulting, LLC. Patton served as Executive Director of Accreditation Services at the The Joint Commission for more than seven years until his retirement in December 2005. In this role, he worked with all types of accredited organizations seeking to be resurveyed, and new organizations seeking to become accredited. Take a look at the table of contents of the global edition:
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