Patient Safety Requires a Team Effort is a “must see” educational video for all hospital employees to heighten patient safety awareness and reinforce the concept that all employees play an important part in supporting patient safety. Specifically, this video focuses on three key principles that all employees should follow to help prevent medical errors and strengthen patient safety.

• Consider your actions and how they may affect patient safety.
• Stay alert for things that don’t seem right.
• Take appropriate steps to address a problem.

Six medication safety scenarios, adapted from actual medication error reports, demonstrate how these key principles can be used to prevent medical errors. These scenarios involve a wide variety of hospital employees, including nurses, physicians, laboratory staff, environmental services staff, facilities staff, and nutrition services staff. However, the lessons learned in each scenario could apply to virtually any hospital employee.

After each scenario, two patient safety experts, Ronni Solomon, executive vice president and general counsel for ECRI, and Matthew Fricker, manager for special services for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, explore how each incident could have been prevented through the application of the key principles and seven simple rules.

Hospitals are encouraged to show this video to all staff, perhaps during new employee orientation or general staff meetings. Employees should be encouraged to reflect on how patient safety requires a team effort and how they can support the success of that team.

This video was created and produced for the RMSPH, an innovative program launched by the Health Care Improvement Foundation, an affiliate of the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council (DVHC), along with ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP).

25 minutes

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For more information on this video or other patient safety publications and services, please contact HCIF by telephone at (215) 735-3895, or by e-mail at jmorris@dvhc.org