Veritas for the Operating Room对于营业厅的真理.pptVIP

* Wrong Site/ Wrong Procedure Misidentification of surgical site Incorrect procedure performed A “near miss” should also be entered * Near Misses Facilitates evaluation and identification of causes[s] to prevent an event from actually happening: Improperly stored equipment/medication Wrong patient identification Wrong site/side identification Laps /raytecs found on x-ray before wound closed or patient out of room * Near Misses/ Medications To enter a medication near miss click the medicine bottle on the log in screen instead of clicking on the “Login’ button * Finally This information plus all the categories not discussed is located in the handy reference material mounted on the left side of your computer screen. Veritas-Reporting for the Operating Room * Purpose To assist the staff in choosing the correct Event categories and Nature of event categories in order to have consistency through out all the Operating Rooms To provide accurate data from the event reports to manage and improve our patient care * The Beginning To enter an Event Report: Clinical Workstation, click on Veritas Icon Administrative Workstations ,click on VUMC home page, go to Eskind Digital Library, Choose “ V “, scroll down to Veritas RM and click. Log in “no feed back”.Use your VUNetId. When you get to Event Category ,choose the one that fits your situation * * Event Categories Patient: any event involving inpatients,outpatients, or clinical issues Visitor/Physician/Other: any event involving visitors,family members, students, contract employees,or non-faculty physicians. Property/Equipment/ Narcotic Counts: no association with a patient * Nature of Event It is in this Category that the person submitting the Report has a number of choices to make. Choices must be consistent. The following is an explanation of the categories with O.R.specific impact Categories that are non-OR related [High forceps deliveries] or that are self explanatory[Falls] or that apply to the OR the same as to the