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A6A - Safety Checklists Are Only Helpful When They are Used: How to Improve Compliance and Enhance Communication

Monday, June 13, 2016 : 10:15 AM

Title: A6A - Safety Checklists Are Only Helpful When They are Used: How to Improve Compliance and Enhance Communication

Texas C (Gaylord Grapevine)
Kimberly Rehling-Anthony, MSN, RN, WHNP, IBCLC, C-EFM , Labor and Delivery and Perinatal Resource Center, Swedish Medical Center, Engelwood, CO

Discipline: Obstetric (OB)

Learning Objectives:
  • Justify the utilization of safety checklists when performing high risk procedures or utilizing high risk medications
  • Identify barriers to compliance with safety checklists
  • Formulate strategies to improve safety checklist compliance

    • Submission Description:
    Simple tactics such as low tech visual cues take a community hospital labor and delivery unit with poor communication and 54% compliance with safety checklists to a multi-modal communication team with 98% compliance in 8 months.

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