Medlantis

Patient Safety improvement in Interventional Radiology and Procedural Suites is a morale imperative for nursing leaders and staff alike. This presentation will outline the elements of a success and comprehensive patient safety and quality program. It will include actual quality and staff safety data revealing significant improvements in the 12 domains of the AHQR safety culture staff survey. It will also include lessons learned and next steps for enhancement of safety applicable to any procedural area. This will be geared to novice to expert staff and managers alike. Communication of improvement methodologies is the hallmark of a successful program and is the meaning of Kaizen. Kaizen means continuous quality improvement and is very important to building a culture where all staff are engaged, suggest and implementing improvements in a department or hospital system.

Learning Objectives

After participating in this activity:

• The learner will be able to list the four main elements of a Radiology quality and patient safety program.
  
• The Learner will be aware of the reasons why using the “Just Culture” methodology to support staff after an error is key to building staff trust, accountability further supports a robust Radiology safety program.
  
• The learner will gain an awareness of the use of a modified “WHO” checklist, brief and debrief in the Radiology suite.