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Preparing for the Joint Commission's deadline for alarm safety
Editor’s note: NPSG.06.01.01 was approved by The Joint Commission in June 2013 as a new 2014 National Patient Safety Goal. The final standard includes two phases: Phase I, beginning January 2014, requires hospital leaders to establish alarm system safety as a hospital priority by July 1, 2014. Phase II, which will not begin until January 1, 2016, requires hospitals to educate staff on how to properly operate alarm systems.
In an effort to help hospitals understand the requirements of Phase I, Patient Safety Monitor Journal spoke with Rikin Shah, senior associate in the Applied Solution Group at ECRI Institute in Plymouth Meeting, Penn., about what hospitals need to do to comply with The Joint Commission’s requirements by July 1.
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