PULSE Update March 8, 2011 Patient Safety Awareness Week

March 8, 2011

Patient Safety Awareness Week March 6-12, 2011 Visit the NPSF website for more information on Patient Safety Awareness Week! Here’s another tool to help you choose a hospital. Does your local hospital celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week? This annual event, sponsored by the National Patient Safety Foundation is designed to highlight improved patient-provider communication as a vital part of keeping patients safe.  See where there are celebrations this year here. Patient Safety Awareness Week March 6-12, 2011  The Joint Commission celebrates Patient Safety Awareness Week with a new Speak Up video!  This just released video is free to anyone who wants to encourage the patient and /or their family to Speak Up.  This is the first of a series being introduced by The Joint Commission an independent, not-for-profit organization who accredits and certifies more than 18,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Learn more about Speak Up! PULSE of NY Training Sign up now for our Empathy Training.  Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing, but most of us learn early on that we are expected to "fix-it" when others are in pain. Groups will be small so register early here! About the instructors:  Anne Fleming and Barbara Singer have been facilitating Compassionate Communication classes at the South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Freeport since 2005.  Their 13-week course is presented on Saturday mornings in the fall and spring of each year. See What's New at PULSE of NY See the PULSE of NY Programs and Tools! See how we can help you! Meet the Patient Safety Advisory Council Members for 2011. The Patient Safety Advisory Council (PSAC) was developed to have a wide-reaching impact on improving patient safety awareness in local communities while strengthening ties with health care providers and studying patient safety needs and how they differ or are the same for each other or other patients.  If you are a community leader, and want to be involved in the Patient Safety Advisory Council in New York, or, to start one in your community call (516) 579-4711 and see how we can help. Learn to be a Patient Safety Advocate for Your Friends, Family and People Who Need You Moms and wives often say they can advocate for their family. But who will advocate for mom when she is sick?  Next Class May 2, 2011  Register Here This 8 hour certificate program encourages the partnership between patient and provider and can be offered in your community!  You get the participants, we do the rest! Meet the May 2, 2011 instructors: Charles E. Cal., MS, MBA, R.N.,  Mr. Cal is the Director of Program Evaluation at the Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, a division of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and Adjunct Professor at New York Medical College, Valhalla, and Baruch College, New York City. He holds two Masters degrees from Adelphi University, one in Nursing Administration and another in Business Management. His expertise is in the coordination and development of quality management curricula. Leslie Farrington, MD  Leslie Farrington is a practicing gynecologist on Long Island. She completed her training at Long Island Jewish in 1989 and has been practicing and teaching at LIJ, now part of the North Shore LIJ Health System for most of the past 20 years. Dr. Farrington was involved in the planning and participation of the PULSE Patient Safety Health Fair for Patient Safety Awareness Week in March 2006. She was active in developing the curriculum for the Family Centered Patient Advocacy Training and has co-presented numerous patient advocate training workshops. Dr. Farrington is presently training in Compassionate Communication and has been involved in developing presentations for healthcare workers using compassionate communication skills. Help us to continue our services with a tax deductible donation to PULSE of NY that will help defray the costs of our programs.  In most cases, we do not charge for services.  We count on the support of people like you! Donations, in any amount can be made by credit card here  or, to save our credit card handling fees, send your donation directly to PULSE of NY PO Box 353 Wantagh NY 11793-0353.  To learn more about PULSE of NY, and how we can help the community you serve, call (516) 579-4711.