Ohio Patient Safety Institute

▪ Medication safety brochures
▪ Medication cards
▪ Brownbag toolkit
▪ Order materials

▪ Ohio Surgical Verification
    Protocol
  ▪ Anesthesia awareness sample
    policy
▪ Key steps poster
▪ Time-out wet erase board
▪ "The Vital Patient" brochure

▪ Abbreviations
▪ Patient ID/Wristbands
▪ Infection
▪ Skin Integrity
▪ Fall Precautions

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The Ohio Patient Safety Institute is...
The Ohio Patient Safety Institute is the leader and catalyst in transforming healthcare into a reliable safe delivery system.

What's New...
Speaker's Bureau
OPSI is seeking speakers to populate their new Speaker's Bureau. - Find out more!

Anticoagulation Therapy Collaborative - May 15, 2008
This program will help organizations initiate or continue their planning and implementation of strategies to assure safe use of high risk medications as well as the attainment of National Patient Safety Goal 3E. - Find out more!

2008 High Stakes Communication Teleconference Series
May 14, 2008 - Hand Off Communication
Sharon Walsh-Hart will discuss hand off communication as it relates to the Joint Commission Patient Safety Goals. She will identify various strategies for hand off communication and how to apply them to your current practices. Strategies include SEAM approach, SHARED methodology, I PASS the BATON, Team STEPPS, 5 P's, and Electronic Technology - Find out more!

OPSI to Apply for PSO Status
OPSI will seek Patient Safety Organization status. Learn more about PSO Status.

Healthcare 411
News Series from AHRQ

Standardization of Color Wrist Bands
View a toolkit and other implementation materials. Hospitals are asked to implement the change by September 2007. View a press release regarding standardization.

Learning Library
A collection of effective quality and patient safety practices submitted by Ohio hospitals. Submit practices

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Surgical/procedural
Communication
Clinical
Medication Admin.

Patient care comm.
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Cultural/human factor