you are creating a handout/brochure for your co-workers about the National Patient Safety Goals by The Joint Commission. Choose the goals that closely resemble your workplace knowing that not all work

2015 Behavioral Health Care National Patient Safety Goals The purpose of the National Patient Safety Goals is to improve patient safety. The goals focus on problems in health care safety and how to solve them. This is an easy-to-read document. It has been created for the public. The exact language of the goals can be found at www.jointcommission.org. Use at least two ways to identify individuals served. For example, use the individual’s name and date of birth. This is done to make sure that each individual served gets the correct medicine and treatment. Identify individuals served correctly NPSG.01.01.01 Prevent infection NPSG.07.01.01 Identify individuals served safety risks NPSG.15.01.01 Use the hand cleaning guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the World Health Organization. Set goals for improving hand cleaning. Use the goals to improve hand cleaning.

Find out which individuals served are most likely to try to commit suicide.

Record and pass along correct information about an individual’s medicines. Find out what medicines the individual served is taking. Compare those medicines to new medicines given to the individual served. Make sure the individual served knows which medicines to take when they are at home. Tell the individual served it is important to bring their up-to-date list of medicines every time they visit a doctor. Use medicines safely NPSG.03.06.01