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▪ Use safety devices such as floor pads, and bed or chair alarms that alert health
care personnel of the person getting out of bed or a chair.
▪ Keep the bed in the low position with side rails adjusted to a safe position
(follow agency policy).
▪ Lock all beds, wheelchairs, and stretchers.
▪ Keep clients’ personal items within their reach.
▪ Eliminate clutter and obstacles in the client’s room.

▪ Provide adequate lighting.
▪ Reduce bathroom hazards.
▪ Maintain the client’s toileting schedule throughout the day.

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The Joint Commission: 2018 National Patient
Safety Goals

▪ Improve the accuracy of client identification.
▪ Improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers
▪ Improve the safety of using medications
▪ Focus on the risk points related to medication reconciliation
▪ Reduce the harm associated with clinical alarm systems
▪ Reduce the risk of health care–associated infections
▪ Identify client safety risks

▪ Prevent mistakes in surgery

https://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/6/NPSG_Chapter_HAP_Jan2018.pdfhttps://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/6/2018_HAP_NPSG_goals_final.pdf

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Steps to Prevent Injury to the Health Care Worker
When Moving a Client

▪ Use available safety equipment.
▪ Keep the weight to be lifted as close to the body as possible.
▪ Bend at the knees.
▪ Tighten abdominal muscles and tuck the pelvis.
▪ Maintain the trunk erect and knees bent so that multiple muscle groups work
together in a coordinated manner.

Adapted from Potter A, Perry P, Stockert P, Hall A: Fundamentals of nursing, ed 8, St.

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