What Is Patient Safety Awareness Week?
Patient safety is a critical aspect of healthcare, and Patient Safety Awareness Week is an important time to reflect on its importance. This year, Patient Safety Awareness Week is from March 13-19, 2023, and it serves as a reminder to healthcare professionals and the public about the importance of prioritizing patient safety.
Patient safety refers to the measures taken to prevent harm to patients while receiving medical care. This can range from preventing medication errors to ensuring that medical equipment is properly sterilized. Patient safety is crucial because medical errors can have severe consequences, including injury or even death. In fact, medical errors are one of the leading causes of death in the United States, accounting for an estimated 250,000 deaths per year.
Patient Safety Awareness Week provides an opportunity for healthcare professionals and patients to focus on ways to improve patient safety. This includes discussing ways to prevent medical errors, improving communication between healthcare providers and patients, and promoting a culture of safety in healthcare facilities.
Improving Patient Safety In Your Facility
One way to improve patient safety is by promoting a culture
of safety in healthcare facilities. This involves creating an environment where
healthcare providers feel comfortable reporting errors or near-misses without
fear of retribution. By encouraging open communication and transparency,
healthcare providers can work together to identify and address potential safety
concerns before they become major issues.
Another way to improve patient safety is through the use of
technology. Digital rounding software, for example, allows nurses and doctors
to track any corrective action that is processed and ensure its completion.
This can help establish a closed-loop process throughout the hospital and
improve patient safety and experience with their stay.
Rounding’s Influence On Patient Safety
There are several digital rounding software options
available to healthcare providers, each with its own unique features and
capabilities. Sentact is proud to offer the only comprehensive rounding
platform available to healthcare facilities which offers a Best Practice
Toolkit for healthcare providers to manage patient care activities and improve
patient safety. The Sentact Platform is designed to be user-friendly and
intuitive, with customizable workflows and reporting features to meet the
specific needs of different healthcare organizations. With its robust set of
features, Sentact’s solutions can help healthcare providers streamline their
rounding process, reduce errors, improve communication and collaboration, and
enhance patient engagement and satisfaction. Let’s take a closer look at some
of the key features of the Solution and how they can assist in improving
patient safety.
Sentact’s Best Practice Toolkit
Sentact’s Best Practice Toolkit contains a library that can assist hospitals in improving their patient safety practices around the facility. These toolkits are fully customizable, letting hospitals add or subtract questions that they feel are pertinent to the survey. These surveys have been proven to help improve the safety and wellness of patients and decrease the likelihood of a Patient Safety Event (PSE) occurring by 18%.
Utilizing Our Patient Safety Practices
Leveraging Sentact’s platform to improve your patient safety practices will allow your facility to yield substantial decreases in the frequency of Hospital Acquired Conditions within your facility and lowering the costs incurred along with them. Currently, in the United States, the odds of a patient contracting a HAC is 1:28 with costs totaling over $20,000,000 annually to treat them. Facilities that have utilized Sentact’s rounding platform have experienced an 10% decrease in HAC’s occurring as well as cost savings totaling over $2,500,000 and lowering the odds of an event occurring to 1:32.
Our platform includes automated corrective action that will immediately alert the appropriate staff of any issue found and will track the problem until it is resolved to ensure a closed-loop communication process.
Furthermore, our platform offers robust reporting/dashboards that provide leaders with key data to be able to put action plans in place. Customizable with enhanced filtering capabilities provide enterprise to department level reporting providing lead measures and predictive analytics to shift resources and focus your time.
Patient Safety’s Importance
As we come to the end of Patient Safety Awareness Week, it’s important to remember the impact that small changes can have on patient safety. That’s why we’ve shared some insights on how consistent rounding practices can help improve patient safety and streamline workflow in healthcare facilities.
If you’re interested in learning more about how Sentact’s solutions can benefit your facility, we invite you to schedule a demo with us. Our team will be happy to highlight how our Platform can help you exceed your patient safety goals, reduce errors, and improve patient outcomes.
Don’t wait until the next Patient Safety Awareness Week to take action. Contact us today to schedule your demo and see how our Platform can help you achieve your patient safety goals.
Please note that if you want to learn more about Sentact’s Digital Rounding Software and how it will help your facility improve Patient Safety & Experience, contact one of our executives today to learn more!
