Greeley Reflections
Accreditation Connection, October 26, 2009
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Taking a quick look at the NPSG updates
Part 2 of 4
Seven goals were moved to the standards. (The requirement will remain, but will receive less emphasis during the survey.)
- NPSG.02.01.01 Verbal/telephone order, critical test result read back
- NPSG.02.02.01 Do Not Use entries
- NPSG.02.05.01 Handoff communication
- NPSG.03.03.01 Look-alike/sound-alike medications list
- NPSG.09.02.01 Falls
- NPSG.13.01.01 Patient involvement in care
- NPSG.16.01.01 Rapid response
- NPSG.02.03.01 (cited on 38% of 2009 survey reports) has been relaxed.
The requirement to monitor critical tests is gone, and the remaining language is intended to allow more flexibility in the way that timeliness of critical result reporting is monitored.
A few questions remain. We hope most questions will be clarified in forthcoming FAQs, but we are disappointed that FAQs remain necessary.
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