IPSG
International Patient Safety Goals ( IPSG )
About This Course
International Patient Safety Goals are important guidelines that promote specific improvements in the provision of safe, high-quality patient care.
The purpose of the IPSG is to promote specific improvements in patient safety. The goals highlight problematic areas in health care and describe evidence and expert-based consensus solutions to problems related to patient safety
Requirements
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Course Staff
Norjanah Sani
Clinical Instructor
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What are the 6 International Safety Goals?
1. Identify patients correctly
2. Improve effective communication
3. Improve the safety of high-alert medications
4. Ensure safe surgery
5. Reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections
6. Reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls