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When Entering the Healthcare System
Why the Healthcare Proxy or a Surrogate Decision-Maker? When entering the hospital or when registering for a doctor’s visit, you will often be given a packet of information. In that packet will be a form asking you who will be your decision maker if you can’t make decisions for yourself. That is not the best…
Read MoreWhy Have a Healthcare Proxy
TakeCHARGE: 5 Steps to Safer Health Care Since before the pandemic, many of us throughout the country have recognized that most members of the public could be better prepared to enter the healthcare system as patients. Medical staff are overworked and help is in short supply. With medical errors being a leading cause of death…
Read MoreThe Importance of Keeping Current Medication Records
An Insider’s Perspective by: Stephanie Schulz, BCPA A Voice for You Patient Advocacy https://www.avoiceforyouadvocacy.com/ After spending 30 years working in the pharmacy industry, it is clear to me why keeping a current medication list is vital. Along with a record of your medical history, this is part of Step 2 of the Take Charge Campaign:…
Read MorePrepare for Doctor or Hospital Visits — Make a List of Questions
Pulse Center for Patient Safety, Education & Advocacy June 02, 2022, 13:39 GMT DAVID HALPERINPulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy #3 of public awareness campaign’s “5 Steps to Safer Health Care” aims to prevent “doorknob moments” When we visit a doctor or hospital, we are often worried and stressed . . . Often,…
Read MorePreparing for a Medical Visit
A Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy patient safety advocate/instructor met with a small group of community residents who have been diagnosed with lupus at the Lupus Alliance of Long Island/Queens office in Bellmore, Long Island. Each person received their diagnosis at a different stage of their life, from as recently as a…
Read MoreFinal Week for Step #4 TakeCHARGE 5 Steps to Safer Health Care
Step #4 TakeCHARGE 5 Steps to Safer Health Care Next week is the final week for the 2021 TakeCHARGE Campaign’s Step #4: Ask your caregivers to wash their hands and help stop the spread of infection. In the last two weeks I asked two clinicians to wash. They were not thrilled with my request. Once…
Read MoreIs Your Teen Leaving Home?
Is Your 18-Year-Old Ready to Leave Home? As young people and their parents start to think about how to prepare for college, don’t forget the 5 Steps to Safer Health Care. Step #1 – Be sure both you and your 18-year-old child have copies of their healthcare proxy form in case they get sick or…
Read MoreAre Advance Directives a Patient Safety Issue?
This article was originally written for The National Patient Safety Foundation in 2014 Are Advance Directives a Patient Safety Issue? Posted By Mark Alpert, Wednesday, April 16, 2014Updated: Friday, June 06, 2014Are advance directives, living wills, health care proxies, and do-not-resuscitate instructions patient safety issues? The P.S. Blog asked two patient safety experts to weigh in…
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April is Step #1 TakeCHARGE:
5 Steps to Safer Health Care
I got the phone call that all parents dread. “Mom, Matt was in a serious car accident on his way home.” I tried to call the hospital half-way across the country to find out what happened to my youngest son. No one would talk to me. They wouldn’t even tell me if he was there.…
Read MoreTakeCHARGE Campaign Launches Step 1 – Understand and Complete Your Advance Directives
Safe health care awareness campaign focuses first on ensuring your treatment choices are respected. It’s now more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began to change our world. 12 months in, our hospitals are still treating patients on respirators. They can’t speak. Some are dying. Those who have prepared by naming a health care…
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