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20 PATIENT SAFETY 47 practices for safer care from AHRQ By Mackenzie Bean T he Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality outlined 47 practices healthcare providers can adopt or refine to improve patient safety in a March report. AHRQ's "Making Healthcare Safer III" of- fers practice-based evidence and guidance for implementing these safety practices in line with national safety goals, which have evolved since the report's second installment was published in 2013. The resource breaks down the safety practices into 17 harm areas, listed below: Diagnostic errors 1. Clinical decision support 2. Result notification systems 3. Education and training 4. Peer review Failure to rescue 5. Patient monitoring systems 6. Rapid response teams Sepsis recognition 7. Screening tools 8. Patient monitoring systems Clostridioides difficile infection 9. Antimicrobial stewardship 10. Hand hygiene 11. Environmental cleaning and decontam- ination 12. Surveillance 13. Testing 14. Multicomponent prevention interventions Infections from other multidrug-resistant organisms 15. Chlorhexidine bathing 16. Hand hygiene 17. Active surveillance 18. Environmental cleaning and disinfec- tion 19. Minimize use of devices 20. Communication of MDRO status Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae 21. Contact precautions Harms due to anticoagulants 22. Anticoagulation management service 23. Use of dosing protocols or nomograms 24. Safe transitions Harms due to diabetic agents 25. Standardized insulin protocols 26. Teach-back Reducing adverse drug events in older adults 27. Deprescribing 28. Use of screening tool of older person's inappropriate prescriptions criteria Harms due to opioids 29. Opioid stewardship 30. Medication-assisted treatment Patient identification errors in the operating room 31. Operating room/surgery-specific practices Infusion pumps 32. Structured process changes/workflow redesign 33. Staff education and training Alarm fatigue 34. Safety culture 35. Alarm risk assessment Delirium 36. Screening and assessment 37. Staff education and training 38. Nonpharmacologic interventions Care transitions 39. Transitions of care models Venous thromboembolism 40. Postsurgical prophylaxis using aspirin Cross-cutting patient safety topics/ practices 41. Patient and family engagement 42. Safety culture 43. Clinical decision support 44. Cultural competency 45. Monitoring auditing and feedback 46. Teamwork and team training 47. Education and training through simulation n North Carolina university to offer master's degree in patient safety By Mackenzie Bean F ayetteville State University is the first school in North Carolina to offer an online patient safety degree program for nurses, reported The Fayetteville Observer. North Carolina's public university system in January approved FSU to offer a Master of Science in Nursing in Patient Quality and Safety. The program, which mostly entails online classes, will launch this fall. Most nurses will need about a year and a half to complete the degree, which should equate to a minimum salary increase of about $20,000 annually, according to Afua Arhin, PhD, RN, interim dean of FSU's College of Health, Science and Technology. The program's curriculum will focus on a broad range of topics including epidemiology, pharmacology and ethics. n