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1. For Hospice Care, a Pressing Need to Ensure Quality for Patients and Families | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   December 01, 2022 - Home News Blog AHRQ Views For Hospice Care, a Pressing Need to Ensure … AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders For Hospice Care, a Pressing Need to Ensure … We need to understand patient values for end-of-life care and ensure the quality of care they receive … originally created December 2022 Internet Citation: For Hospice Care, a Pressing Need to Ensure … https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/hospice-care-ensure-quality.html  

2. More Effort Is Needed To Ensure Patients Understand Doctors' Instructions (pdf file)
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   March 01, 2019 - More Effort Is Needed To Ensure Patients Understand Doctors' Instructions 1 MORE EFFORT IS NEEDED … TO ENSURE PATIENTS UNDERSTAND DOCTORS’ INSTRUCTIONS Did you know? … Federal programs are working to ensure that all Americans always receive health-literate care, including

3. Care for the Caregiver Program Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2022 - Ensure Team Effectiveness . … Develop an infrastructure to ensure effective support program deployment. … To ensure optimal team performance, it is important to have an infrastructure in place to ensure second-victim … Ensure “ready access” support for clinicians in high-risk clinical areas and teams. … to ensure the program is fulfilling its intent. 

4. TeamSTEPPS Video Debrief Guide: CUS and Teach-Back on Inpatient Medical Unit (pdf file)
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   August 31, 2023 - Inpatient Medical Unit Video Objective To demonstrate the use of CUS and Teach-Back techniques to ensure … This technique was used to ensure the patient had clearly understood the instructions. … • Use the Teach-Back technique to ensure patient understanding; use interpreter resources when language

5. Asking the Hard Questions About Telehealth | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2021 - There is much to be learned about telehealth to ensure that its future applications improve quality and … but instead ask “How can we learn from the use of telehealth today to ensure care is better tomorrow? … As we recommit ourselves to addressing historical racism and advancing health equity, we must ensure … has the potential to increase access for people living in rural and frontier communities, and we must ensure … we must not rely on assumptions; it is time to ask challenging questions and create the evidence to ensure

6. Section 2: Explanation of Key Team Leadership Concepts and Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   July 01, 2023 - To ensure that trainings reach all affected team members, it is essential to know which teams are targeted … Speaking in lay terms to ensure that patients and family caregivers understand the information being … Core Teams should be small enough to ensure situation monitoring, development of situation awareness, … Coordination functions, such as triaging emerging events and prioritizing decision making to ensure maximal … Manage and allocate resources effectively to ensure that team members have what they need to succeed.

7. About TeamSTEPPS 2.0 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2019 - The key objective is to ensure opportunities exist to implement the tools and strategies taught, practice … Ensure leaders emphasize new skills. … The goal is for leaders to engage in activities that will ensure continuous involvement in teamwork. … It is useful to ensure that measurement of pretraining factors is parallel with post-training factors … The change team should determine when organizational needs have changed and ensure the sustainment plan

8. CUSP Toolkit, The Role of the Nurse Manager, Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   December 01, 2012 - As part of their administrative duties, nurse managers can ensure the unit has the resources it needs … When hiring staff, nurse managers ensure the unit's staffing needs are met in the most economical way … Customer Focus Say: Nurse managers ensure the care delivered on their unit is customer focused. … By engaging these customers, nurse managers ensure the unit is able to deliver the highest quality of … Staffing costs Nurse managers ensure staffing costs remain within the budgeted amounts.

9. TeamSTEPPS Pocket Guide (pdf file)
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   May 01, 2023 - Communication Page 6 Closed-Loop Communication Using verbal feedback to ensure that messages … Monitoring and Modifying the Plan y Huddle—Ad hoc meeting to ensure continual progression of care … team outcome): Results from each team member maintaining situation awareness and communicating to ensure … that could alter the plan of care Uses STAR to prevent skill-based errors Fosters communication to ensure … that could alter the plan of care Uses STAR to prevent skill-based errors Fosters communication to ensure

10. Pocket Guide: TeamSTEPPS: Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - Structure Identification of the components of a multi-team system that must work together effectively to ensure … Nurse: “BP is 96/62” 11 Communication Check-Back Using closed-loop communication to ensure that … Sender double-checks to ensure that the message was received Example: Doctor: “Give 25 mg Benadryl … behaviors Situation Monitoring Monitors the state of the patient Monitors fellow team members to ensure … toward the goal and identifies changes that could alter the care plan Fosters communication to ensure

11. Memo from the Director: Equal Employment Opportunity and EEO Complaints Process (pdf file)
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    March 27, 2023 - Such efforts will ensure the integrity of our mission at AHRQ by affording our highly talented employees … Harassment As the Director of AHRQ, I have made it my priority to ensure that AHRQ employees, contract … The official who receives such harassment claims will ensure the confidentiality of the individual making … Supervisors and managers bear a special responsibility to ensure that the work environment is free from

12. TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Performance Observation Tool (pdf file)
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    May 31, 2023 - Monitors fellow team members to ensure safety and prevent errors c. … Fosters communication to ensure that team members have a shared mental model Comments: Overall Rating

13. Investing in Primary Care to Ensure High-Quality Care for All Americans | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2021 - Home News Blog AHRQ Views Investing in Primary Care to Ensure … Events AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders Investing in Primary Care to Ensure … 2021 Page originally created July 2021 Internet Citation: Investing in Primary Care to Ensure

14. Pocket Guide: TeamSTEPPS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2020 - Nurse:           "BP is 96/62" Check-Back Using closed-loop communication to ensure that information … Sender double-checks to ensure that the message was received. … statement is ignored: It is your responsibility to assertively voice concern at least two times to ensure … Monitors fellow team members to ensure safety and prevent errors. … Fosters communication to ensure a shared mental model.

15. Grant Application Peer Review Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2015 - Process Grant applications submitted to AHRQ are evaluated by the AHRQ peer review process to ensure … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will be evaluated by AHRQ peer review process to ensure

16. National Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety Webinar Series (pdf file)
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    August 22, 2023 - The hospital’s governing body must ensure that the program reflects the complexity of the organization … The board oversight of contract employees to ensure they have/are part of QAPI efforts where appropriate … Board evaluates management’s summary of incident reporting trends and timeliness to ensure transparency … Board evaluates senior leaders’ summary of metrics to ensure physician and staff ability to care for … and inform the board of their operational approach to quality, improvement and performance and to ensure

17. Mod4-Event-Checklist (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2016 - How to use this tool: Use the checklist to ensure that appropriate action is taken following an adverse … Assess and Inform ■ Ensure the patient is stable, and provide emotional support to the patient/family … ■ Monitor changes to ensure results.

18. Module 4: Event Reporting, Event Investigation and Analysis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2022 - Protecting the organization to ensure the event analysis is not discoverable during a potential lawsuit … Protecting patients from future harm, since the organization has a process to ensure continuous learning … Risk Management personnel should ensure all parts of the organization are using the event reporting system … approach to Event Investigation and Analysis is that managing individual performance alone does not ensure … Eventually, the team sends a report to leadership and the board, conducts followup 6 weeks later to ensure

19. Getting Intentional About Equity: New Guide Helps Developers and Users of Digital Healthcare Technologies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - Public health leaders developed policies to ensure that people most vulnerable to severe illness got … For example, developers should ensure that datasets used to train an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered … By empowering developers and users to consider healthcare equity outcomes, AHRQ’s new guide can ensure

20. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2012 - to 2 hours.6,8,9 Daily Rounds Assessment Include in the daily rounds a nutritional assessment to ensure … facilities may adapt the tool to allow for easy completion, using check boxes and short phrases to ensure … of Patients Every 1 to 2 Hours and Promotion of Highest Level of Mobility • Have senior leaders ensure … dietitian when nutritional elements could contribute to risk of nutritional deficiencies.7-9 o Ensure … standard hospital mattress.1,6-9 o Triage use of pressure-redistributing beds and mattresses.7 o Ensure