Safe in Common Presents: The Unfinished Agenda

Welcome to the Unfinished Agenda

• Moderator - Dr. Mary Foley, RN, PHD• Safe In Common Campaign Chairperson• Director at the Center for Nursing Research

and Innovation at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing

• Elected President of the American Nurses Association (ANA) in 2000

• Present in the Oval Office when President Bill Clinton signed the Federal Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act into law.

What is Safe in Common?

Safe in Common is a non-profit organization uniting industry, key healthcare associations, thought leaders, and grass roots supporters around a Common cause of providing a Safer environment for healthcare workers, their patients, and the community.

Welcome

The Unfinished Agenda About our title: Reinvigorate the conversation to eradicate sharps injuries and

increase safety across the continuum of care.

Welcome

The Unfinished Agenda Program Objective: Equip healthcare leaders and

personnel with action items and tools to revitalize the conversation about safety within their own organizations, and encouraging renewed innovation for better devices to serve the safety needs of the entire healthcare continuum

Welcome

Participant Console

What is “The Unfinished Agenda”?

The Unfinished Agenda Where we’ve been Where we are today What the future needs to be

You will have the opportunity to ask questions toward the end of the conference

Take away ideas you can adopt in your institutions

Where We Have Been

Conventional Barrel Based Needle Based Retractable Passive Needleless

There is a whole new generation of caregivers that weren’t born when some of the engineering controls, widely used today, were introduced.

They aren’t aware of the history. We must educate them and remind others of where we have been.

Where We Have Been

1980

1983Isolation precautions

1987Prevention of HIV transmission

1988Universal precautions

1998CA Law

1991 2001

1990 2000 2010

The collaborative efforts of the late 20th century brought about massive change: CDC guidelines OSHA requirements FDA Advisories State and Federal Legislation

1992FDA advisory

2000NSPA

2012FDA advisory

1999FDA advisory

Where We Are Today – UNFINISHED

The injury challenges of the 80’s and 90’s continue today

Most safety devices in use today were developed before the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act was signed in 2000

Innovation and demand for safer products has stagnated

Bottom line: Injuries continue to occur

Introducing: Dr. Janine Jagger

A key pioneer who has been a part of the crusade for over 20 years

Professor of Research of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Virginia

Founder and Director of the International Health Care Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia

Where We Are Today: Dr. Janine Jagger

“Tenth Anniversary of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act: Mapping Progress, Charting a Future Path,” November 4-6, 2010, sponsored by the International Healthcare Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia.

The speakers and participants represented a broad range of stakeholders relevant to the issue of sharps safety, including clinicians, researchers, and healthcare administrators as well as representatives from government agencies, professional associations, and the device industry. The conference also had global participation, with speakers from five continents.

The steering committee for the conference drafted a Consensus Statement based upon input from over 100 conference attendees.

Members included representatives from industry, clinicians, public health officials, and key opinion leaders.

Where We Are Today: Dr. Janine Jagger

Improving sharps safety in surgical settings

Understanding and reducing exposure risks in non-hospital settings

Involving frontline healthcare workers in the selection of safety devices

Addressing gaps in safety devices: the need for continued innovation

Enhancing education and training

MOVING THE SHARPS SAFETY AGENDA FORWARD IN THE UNITED STATES:CONSENSUS STATEMENT AND CALL TO ACTION

Where We Are Today - UNFINISHED Reported Injuries in MA (2002-2009)

2002 – 2009 Massachusetts Sharps Injury Surveillance System

Where We Are Today

Creating a culture of safety Addressing gaps in a safety program Requires connection at all levels of the healthcare

facility Administration and leadership

Management and supervisors

Nurses, doctors and other caregivers

Housekeeping and facilities personnel

Where We Are TodayOur Dream is ZERO Sharps Injuries!

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Where We Are TodayPanelists

Dr. Janine Jagger Gina PuglieseP.J. Haylock

Where We Are Today

Question #1

What should be done to improve healthcare worker safety for those at high risk of sharps injuries?

P.J. Haylock

Where We Are Today

Question #2

What has been the benefit of centralized reporting?

Dr. Janine Jagger

Where We Are Today

Question #3

How do you suggest we integrate worker and patient safety into a financially driven culture?

Gina Pugliese

Where We Are Today

Questions from the audience

Where We Are Today

Panel Summary: Support centralized reporting assigned to one regulatory

group in the US Suggestions to create a safety culture with a fiscally

responsible mindset Best practices for injury prevention Suggestions to improve safety for employees Ideas to address The Unfinished Agenda

Contribute to Safe In Common

Safe In Common is looking for abstracts: Culture of safety How to balance injury reduction and patient care Success stories of injury reduction Other ideas that will protect healthcare workers Submit by December 31st, 2012 Potential to present during next event Next event: February 5th, 2013 at 1pm EST

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