News spotlight: AHA asks hospitals to consider three colors of safety
Nurse Leader Weekly, September 22, 2008
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Hospitals are always seeking strategies to increase patient safety. According to the American Hospital Association (AHA), some color changes could make a big difference.
The AHA issued an advisory earlier this month asking hospitals using alert wristbands to consider adopting three standardized colors to enhance patient safety. The wristbands are already used in various hospitals to make staff aware of specific patient risks. But different colors are used at different hospitals, causing confusion among staff members employed at multiple facilities.
The proposed consensus colors—red for patients with allergies, yellow for patients at a fall risk, and purple for patients with do-not-resuscitate preferences—are already common in many hospitals across the country. The advisory urges hospitals using wristbands to also always verify a patients' status on their chart.
Source: American Hospital Association
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