Annual industry survey: Assessing suicide risk
Nurse Leader Insider, May 29, 2019
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Insider!
Healthcare organizations have plenty of safety-related issues to worry about. Assessing and addressing the risk of suicide is a serious concern that has also been a regulatory hotspot in recent years.
Asked to rate their organization’s effectiveness in assessing and preventing suicide risk, 43% of respondents to the 2019 Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare Industry Outlook Survey said that their organization is slightly effective at addressing the problem. Another 38% said their organization is highly effective.
Surveyors have found many shortcomings in how hospitals handle suicide risk assessment. In the survey, 15% of respondents indicated their organization was slightly ineffective in its suicide risk assessment, and another 4% said they were highly ineffective.
Last November, The Joint Commission (TJC) announced revisions to its suicide prevention National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG). NPSG 15.01.01 now has seven elements of performance (EP), up from three. All the changes are listed in R3 Report 18 and will take effect July 1, 2019. The update applies to all TJC-accredited hospitals and behavioral healthcare organizations.
The report says the new EPs aim to improve quality and safety of care for patients treated for behavioral health conditions and who are identified as high-risk for suicide. TJC officials say the revised requirements are based on more than a year of research, review, and analysis with multiple panels convened by TJC and representing provider organizations, suicide prevention experts, behavioral facility design experts, and other key stakeholders.
The PSQH survey report analyzes this and other patient safety and quality issues that concern healthcare organizations. Visit here to download the full report.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Insider!
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Complications from immobility by body system
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- The consequences of an incomplete medical record
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- ICD-10-CM coma, stroke codes require more specific documentation
- E-mailed
-
- Correctly bill ancillary bedside procedures in addition to the room rate
- Q&A: Utilization Review Committee Membership
- Q&A: Bill blood administration the same way for inpatient and outpatient accounts
- Q&A: A second look at encephalopathy as integral to seizures/CVA
- Performing a SWOT analysis
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Know the medical gas cylinder storage requirements
- Intravenous therapy guidelines
- Coding, billing, and documentation tips for teaching physicians, interns, residents, and students
- Coding tip: Watch for different codes for SI joint injections
- Searched