Product Description

Checklists are proven tools for getting things done—and more importantly, getting things done the right way every time.  By providing a standardized approach, checklists simplify complex tasks and processes. When used consistently and correctly, a well-developed checklist can help to ensure safe patient care. 

This fully revised and updated second edition of the best-selling Joint Commission Big Book of Checklists includes new and revised checklists, tools, and templates that health care organizations can use and customize. There are checklists for a myriad of tasks, including accreditation preparation, continuous standards compliance, performance improvement and measurement, and more.  

These tried-and-true checklists help organizations assess and evaluate tasks and processes, provide guidance for decision making, and itemize procedure steps and required “to-do’s.”  The book also includes blank checklist templates and encourages health care organizations to build their own checklists to tackle organization-specific challenges. 

The Joint Commission Big Book of Checklists is available as a hard-copy, a single-user e-book, or a multi-user e-book (or site license).

Key Topics:

• Continuous standards compliance and survey readiness
• Performance improvement and measurement
• Safety culture
• Staff competence assessment
• Sentinel events
• Root cause analysis
• Infection prevention and control
• Medication management
• Physical environment

Key Features:

• Downloadable and customizable checklists on a wide range of topics 
• Explanation of how checklists can be successfully used in health care
• Caveats about overreliance on checklists or ineffective implementation
• Checklists that apply to all Joint Commission–accredited programs
• Trusted content reviewed by subject matter experts from The Joint Commission

Standards: Various accreditation standards

Setting: All Joint Commission accreditation programs

Key Audience:

• Accreditation professionals
• Performance improvement professionals
• Clinical leadership
• Infection preventionists
• Medication safety officers
• Patient safety officers
• Human resources professionals
• Health care facility managers

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