National Patient Safety Goals

National Patient Safety Goals -Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Organizations

The goal I- Identify patients correctly
• Use at least two ways to identify patients.

Goal 2 – Improve personal communication

Goal 3 – Use security alarms
• Before a procedure, label medications that are not
marked.
• Take special care with patients taking medications
• Record correct information about a patient’s medications.

Goal 6 – Use security alarms
• Make improvements to ensure medical equipment alarms are cleared.
listen and respond on time. NPSG.06.01.01

Goal 7 – Prevention of infection
• Using hand cleaning instructions from the Centers for Control
and Disease Prevention or the World Health Organization.
• Set goals to improve hand cleanliness. NPSG.07.01.01
• Use proven guidelines to prevent infections that are difficult to treat.

Goal 15 – Identify patient safety risks

Question: How the goals of the National Patient Safety Goals explained above impact patients living with diabetes and how they related in to health promotion and prevention of type 2 diabetes?