JCAHO releases 2006 National Patient Safety Goals
Accreditation Connection, June 6, 2005
The JCAHO released two new National Patient Safety Goals for 2006 on May 31. They include the following:
Goal 2 (improve communication among caregivers) requirement 2E--"Implement a standardized approach to 'hand-off' communications, including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions."
Goal 3 (improve medication safety) requirement 3D--"Label all medications, medication containers (e.g., syringes, medicine cups, basins), or other solutions on and off the sterile field in perioperative and other procedural settings."
Two existing goals were retired into the 2006 JCAHO standards manual, which will come out in the fall. These goals are Goal 3 requirement 3A (remove all concentrated electrolytes from patient units), Goal 5, (improve infusion pump safety), and requirement 5A (All general-use and patient-controlled analgesia intravenous infusion pumps have free-flow protection.)
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