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True to their name, ‘Never events’ should never happen, but unfortunately they do. It’s therefore important for hospitals to put preventative measures in place.
In recent years technology has played a major role in boosting patient safety in hospitals.
This blog looks at:
- The potential for never events in healthcare delivery
- Healthcare technology to tackle ‘never events’
- A video looking at preventing never events in healthcare.
Nurses will do everything they can to avoid Never Events in healthcare delivery.
Patient safety is every nurse’s ultimate goal, so any action that ends up being detrimental to a patient’s health is a catastrophe. Especially if the event was preventable.
Perioperative nurses have supply chain responsibilities on top of their patient care duties. Some of these have a direct impact on patient safety, including:
- Ensuring the right supplies are on hand for elective and emergency surgeries
- Maintaining stocks and controlling inventory, in particular ensuring only safe items are in stock – recall/expiry management
- Picking the required items for each case.
- Documenting supply consumption
The easiest way to avoid Never Events in hospitals and ASCs is to take precautions to prevent them from happening in the first place.
POU tools that tackle Never Events in Healthcare
IDENTI provides tools designed for the healthcare setting, that leverage technology to boost patient safety and lower the risk posed by hospital medical inventory.
Our point of use (POU) tools and AI-powered management system provide a safety net for circulating nurses.
Nurses need the right resources to relieve them of supply chain administrative duties and focus on patients, giving them complete faith that every item is expiry and recall checked prior to consumption, and that case charting will be complete and accurate.
Technology that prevents never events in healthcare
Increasingly, technology is being used to support patient safety activities and this is true for perioperative supply chain management too.
Automated inventory management tools for point of use inventory are supporting inventory vision and control, aiding nurses to ensure full stock availability and facilitating greater stock control.
In addition, the OR or procedural room is the last line of defense when it comes to supply safety, so having safeguards built into perioperative documentation systems is a great support to busy periop nurses.
This video takes a look at never events in healthcare, seeing nurses as the last line of defense in the surgery setting, with a high responsibility for patience safety at the point of care.
It looks at the patient safety fears that nurses commonly have and how the right POU data capture tool can take the pressure off them, minimizing the risk of never events in healthcare caused by the consumption of unvalidated inventory.
This video is based on our eBook on never events in healthcare
It’s time to put safeguards in place that provide added protection against supply-related never events in healthcare settings.
Whether a small rural hospital, specialist ASC, or large IDN, all sizes of healthcare providers need to be aware of the technology now available to take the pressure of nurses and boost patient safety.
It’s time to leverage new AI-powered technology to help nurses focus on patients, not products.
Technology can support:
- Managing inventory with full control, ensuring only safe items are in stock
- Preventing usage of expired or recalled products in surgery
- Dealing efficiently with product recalls
- Releasing nurses from the burden of supply chain admin so they and increase time on more vital tasks.
]It’s time to leverage new automated inventory tracking technology to boost patient safety and avoid never events in healthcare.
Contact us for details on supply chain safeguards that will protect against never events.
