Patient Safety Awareness Week is designed to inspire action and recognize work being done to improve the safety of our health care system—for patients and employees.
Daily Activities: March 15 – 19
Take part in our daily trivia challenges. Those who answer all questions correctly will have a chance to be entered into a drawing for prizes.
Monday, March 15
- Participate in today’s daily trivia. This survey will remain open until tomorrow at 5 a.m.
Tuesday, March 16
- Participate in today’s daily trivia. This survey will remain open until tomorrow at 5 a.m.
Wednesday, March 17
- Participate in today’s daily trivia. This survey will remain open until tomorrow at 5 a.m.
Thursday, March 18
- Participate in today’s daily trivia. This survey will remain open until tomorrow at 5 a.m.
Friday, March 19
- Participate in today’s daily trivia. This survey will remain open until tomorrow at 5 a.m.
Online activities:
- Safety Room (on The Point)
Watch our Nursing Quality Best Practices Videos:
- Introduction to Safety Awareness Week
- Hand hygiene video
- Hand hygiene video, part two
- CLABSI prevention
- CAUTI prevention
- Pressure injury prevention
- Fall prevention
- Fall prevention, part two
- Bedside communication
View video tutorials about our Riskonnect Patient Safety Incident Reporting System:
Patient safety handouts:
- Infection prevention and you
- 5 steps to submit patient events
- Viruses or bacteria?
- Riskonnect categories within patient events
- Patient experience word search
- Falls prevention
More Patient Safety Awareness resources:
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Quality Improvement Program Structure (on The Point)
- Quality Improvement Program (on The Point)
- Evaluation Following Exposure to Human Blood/Body Fluids
- Office of the Patient Experience