From: Effects of auditing patient safety in hospital care: design of a mixed-method evaluation
Some of the 65 items | |
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Medication safety | Double check before administration of the drug (the right drugs and right doses to the right patient at the right time) |
Keep medication inaccessible to unauthorized persons | |
Infection prevention | Wash hands before and after treatment of the patient |
Not wearing hand or wrist jewellery | |
Environment | Reduce risks of patients falling |
Make leaflets easily accessible to patients | |
Test whether alarm systems work | |
Protocols and procedures of care | Ensure that only up-to-date instructions for the protocols and procedures of care are available |
Ensure that protocols and procedures are accessible | |
Information security | Keep medical and nursing patient record inaccessible to unauthorized persons |
Keep conversations between healthcare providers confidential | |
Sterile medical aids | Keep packaging of sterile materials closed |
Sterile materials for which the expiration date has passed must always be removed | |
Medical devices | Monitor maintenance periodically |
Provide training before use | |
Patient identification | Ensure that patients wear an identification bracelet |
Ensure that demonstrable checking takes place before blood products are given | |
Food safety | Check that the nutrition assistant ensures fluid and/or nutritional balance is complete |
Ascertain the temperature of the hot meal before serving | |
Reserved procedures | Determine that nurses have been trained and examined for risky medical procedures |
Overall safety | The department must be clean and tidy |
 | Clean desk policy must be maintained in the reception room |