2022 IHA Patient Safety Priority Focus Area Survey

To better understand what the future educational needs are for our members, we are asking you to take a few minutes of your time to complete this brief survey. The purpose of the survey is to help us to plan IHA quality and patient safety educational and training programs for 2022. Learning more about your hospital's priorities will allow us to plan accordingly.

The survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete, and your responses are confidential.

For each of the following questions, please select the answer that best fits the needs of your facility.

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* 1. When thinking of Infection Prevention, what are the top 2 areas that you see as a priority focused need for your facility?

Device-associated infections: CAUTI, CLABSI and Ventilator associated events

Infectious Disease: Including but not limited to: COVID, Influenza, and Tuberculosis

Clostridium difficile

Surgical Site Infections

Hand Hygiene

Environmental Infection Prevention: Environmental Services, Central Sterile/Central Processing

Infection Prevention professional development

Comments/Other (please specify)

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* 2. When thinking of SEPSIS, what are the top 2 areas that you see as a priority focused need for your facility?

Education

Bundle Compliance

Mortality

Leadership

Metrics

Screening

Documentation/Feedback

Comments/Other (please specify)

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* 3. When thinking of Patient Harm, what are the top 2 areas you see as a priority focused need for your facility?

Ligature Risk

Patient Falls

Pressure injuries/HAPI

Medication safety (Prescribing, Dispensing, Diversion, Education)

Hypo/Hyperglycemic events

Antimicrobial stewardship

Comments/Other (please specify)

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* 4. When thinking of Occupational Health/Facilities/External, what are the top 2 areas that you see as a priority focused need for your facility?

Employee Vaccination program (COVID, Influenza, Annual TB assessment)

Blood/body fluid exposure (Staff)

Communicable Disease exposure and follow up (Staff)

Visitors (Health & Compliance)

Workplace Violence

Employee Engagement/Wellness

Sharps safety

Construction risk mitigation

Food Safety

Cyber Attack

Supply Chain issues/disruption

Internal Disasters (sewer failure/power failure/gas failure/flood/fire)

External Disasters (flood/fire/weather/public health emergency)

Comments/Other (please specify)

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* 5. When thinking of Health Equity, Disparities, and Population Health, what are the top 2 areas that you see as a priority focused need for your facility?

Disparities in access/treatment

Social Determinants of Health/Population Health

Human Trafficking

Obstetric Health

Pediatric Health

Safe Infant Sleep

Mental Health/Suicide Prevention

Tobacco Prevention & Cessation

Chronic Disease Management

Critical access/rural facilities

Comments/Other (please specify)

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* 6. When thinking of Survey on Patient Safety Culture, what are the top 2 areas that you see as a priority focused need for your facility?

Communication About Error

Communication Openness

Communication between team members (Handoffs and Transitions)

Hospital Management Support for Patient Safety

Organizational Learning-Continuous Improvement

Reporting Patient Safety Events

Response to Error

Staffing and Work Pace

Supervisor, Manager, Clinical Leader Support for Patient Safety

Teamwork

Comments/Other (please specify)

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* 7. When thinking of CMS Star Ratings and Pay for Performance Measures, what are the top 2 areas that you see as a priority focused need for your facility?

Mortality

Readmissions

Safety of Care

Patient Experience

Timely & Effective Care

Comments/Other (please specify)

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* 8. When thinking of Patient/Family Engagement, what are the top 2 areas that you see as a priority focused need for your facility?

Designated PFE lead or department

Pre-admission PFE (Admission checklist for planned admissions)

Inpatient PFE (Bedside reporting and shift change huddles)

Discharge PFE (Discharge planning checklist in place)

Post-Acute PFE (Patient follow-up process)

PFE Committee or patients on other committees, including reporting to board)

Physician/Nurse communication with patient

Comments/Other (please specify)

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* 9. Of the following patient safety topics, please select the top 3 choices for general focus areas of need for your facility for 2022.

Infection Prevention

Sepsis

Patient Harm

Occupational Health/Facilities/ External

Health Equity, Disparities and Population Health

Survey on Patient Safety Culture

CMS Star Ratings and Value Based Purchasing

Patient/Family Engagement

Comments/Other (please specify)

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* 10. About you and your hospital:

Name

Title

Hospital

Email Address

Thank you for completing this survey. Your responses will help to guide us in supplying resources and tools to help with your improvement efforts.