DoD PSP Treasure Chest: July Edition
Military Health System (MHS) patient safety champions work tirelessly to deliver high quality care to their patients. The DoD PSP Treasure Chest provides you with information, tools and the resources you need to help you execute your patient safety activities effectively and easily. This month, access the SBAR toolkit, the Medical Team Performance Assessment Tool (MTPAT), the Patient Safety Learning Center (PSLC) and the Patient Safety Reporting (PSR) eLearning course.
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Welcome to the July edition of the DoD PSP Treasure Chest! Each and every month, we will be sharing resources to help you execute your day-to-day patient safety activities easily and effectively. Please visit us often and get access to tools and information developed with you, our committed MHS patient safety champions, in mind!
The Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (SBAR) Toolkit
Evidence shows that the use of a structured communication tool known as SBAR can improve information exchange among healthcare team members and reduce the rate of adverse events. The SBAR toolkit contains everything you need to implement SBAR in your healthcare organization. The toolkit includes:
- Toolkit Overview
- SBAR Facilitation Guide
- SBAR Facilitation Slides
- SBAR Quick Review
- Toolkit Evaluation Form
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Medical Team Performance Assessment (MTPAT) Tool
The MTPAT provides the observer/evaluator with data collection tools for rapidly recording observed teamwork behaviors, and teamwork behaviors that are expected but not observed. Measures and rating scales allow for evaluating the use of TeamSTEPPSTeam Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) is an evidence-based teamwork system designed to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare. TeamSTEPPS consists of a collection of instructions, materials and tools to help drive a successful teamwork initiative from the initial planning to implementation through to sustainment. The system is designed to improve patient safety using a three-phase approach: Phase I Assessment: Facility determines organizational readiness; Phase II Planning, Training & Implementation: Facility “decides what to do” and “makes it happen;” and Phase III Sustainment: Facility spreads the improvements in teamwork performance, clinical processes and outcomes resulting from the TeamSTEPPS initiative.TeamSTEPPS® principles and tools and the application of core teamwork skills.
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Patient Safety Learning Center (PSLC)
Your PSLC is a member-based Patient Safety Community of Interest. It enables connections among DoD, military and approved contractors who are engaged in patient safety activities. Members can use the PSLC to access and share knowledge about patient safety, and collaborate on best practices across the Military Health System (MHS).
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Patient Safety Reporting (PSR): eLearning Intermediate Course
This eLearning course is designed for learners already familiar with the basic functionalities of the PSR system. Students learn by doing—first reviewing patient safety case studies then classifying events, identifying contributing factors, selecting team personnel, and finally identifying appropriate corrective actions.
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Technical Document
8/5/2016
This document provides guidelines for all interested parties who would like to submit an application package for the 2016 Advancement toward High Reliability in Healthcare Awards Program. The awards program recognizes those who have shown initiative and commitment to the development of systems and processes that will lead the MHS toward a better, safer, nationally recognized health care system that all MHS leaders and staff strive for each and every day and one that all patients deserve. Awards will identify efforts that progress the MHS on its journey of continuous improvement, in the areas of Patient Engagement, Healthcare Quality and Safety, and Improved Access.
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8/1/2016
Welcome to the August edition of the DoD PSP Treasure Chest! Each and every month, we will be sharing resources to help you execute your day-to-day patient safety activities easily and effectively. Please visit us often and get access to tools and information developed with you, our committed MHS patient safety champions, in mind! This month we highlight the following resources: Patient Activation Resource Guide, Ask Me 3® Brochure, On-Demand e-Learning Courses, and Facebook Page.
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Training Material
7/14/2016
The Leadership Engagement Toolkit was designed to help healthcare leaders assess gaps in their safety culture, engage key influencers for change, set goals for targeted improvement, implement proven safe practices, and reinforce key behaviors to ensure high-reliability performance for improvement. There are two sets of evidence-based best practices (“strategies”): Executive Leadership and Frontline Physician Leadership. The practices focus on what the practice is, why it is used, and how to implement it. There is also a "How to Guide" that focuses on getting started, equipping leaders as coaches, and making and measuring progress.
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7/1/2016
Offering various ready-to-use tools, materials and resources, TeamSTEPPS can be tailored to address the specific needs of an organization to seamlessly incorporate its principles into all areas of a health care system. In fact, it is only by fully integrating the tools that TeamSTEPPS offers into our day-to-day activities that Military Health System (MHS) leadership, frontline staff and patient safety professionals will truly benefit from leveraging this methodology. A great example of this is the work and research that the U.S Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) conducted regarding the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire (T-TPQ). Highlights of this work were presented at the 2016 National TeamSTEPPS conference this past June.
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7/1/2016
The 10th Annual National TeamSTEPPS Conference – an event designed to highlight strategies and techniques to effectively implement and sustain TeamSTEPPS in today’s ever-evolving health care environment – was held 7-10 June, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Welcoming over 700 health care industry professionals and experts, the National TeamSTEPPS conference spotlighted the value of TeamSTEPPS across clinical and non-clinical settings both in the civilian and military space. Addressing a wide range of topics – with over 30 presentations and workshops on subjects ranging from “TeamSTEPPS 101” to “TeamSTEPPS: The Vehicle to Drive your Metrics in the Right Direction,” “The Answer is in the Room: Using TeamSTEPPS to Problem Solve and Reinvigorate Struggling Teams” and “TeamSTEPPS in Times of Transformational Change” – the 2016 TeamSTEPPS National Conference provided attendees the ability to delve into the TeamSTEPPS framework and its application into all aspects of health care and patient safety.
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