**WHAT’S NEW for January 2014

• New & Modified Features
  
  • Article of the Month – The most important/valuable/useful article in the list of Recommended Readings below will be selected as Article of the Month. We strongly encourage you to start with our review, then read the full article and share your ideas about its compliance/improvement implications via the ‘Comments’ link.
    
  • RTN Tips = S-Tips – This year we are expanding the scope of the suggestion in RTN Tips to include other member services. They are now called SupporTips (S-Tips) and are re-located at the bottom of this Highlights section. You may click on its heading to see past Tips.
    

• Article of the Month
  
• Saving the “Second Victim”: Helping the Clinicians Involved in Patient Safety Events[®] The Source, January 2014, Vol 12, #1, Pg 1 [Recommended for: MDx, LDR, RNx, StEd] – Staff are a critical factor in developing a Safety Culture and High Reliability Organization. This article provides ideas and inspiration not only for Second Victims, but also for improving staff (and patient) support in general.
  
• Click here for our REVIEW; the FULL ARTICLE; to share a COMMENT.

**RECOMMENDED READING:

1. PR: Applicability of MM Standards to Sample Meds Ftxt [REF:BHC, MD, P&T/Phrm]
2. TS: Second Victim…Clinicians Involved in Patient Safety Events Ftxt [REF: MDx, LDR, RNx, StEd]
3. TS: Managing Staff Vaccination Programs Ftxt [REF: IC, MDx, PI, RNx, StEd]
4. TS: CMS: Hospital Engagement Networks Ftxt [Pearl: CMS, GB, MDx, LDR]
5. TS: Ensuring Staff Competency: Complying with HR.01.06.01 Ftxt [REF: BHC, HR, RN]
6. EC: Keeping emergency power generators…ready to go Ftxt [REF: EOC, EM, SFT]
7. EC: Test Your Standards IQFtxt [REF: CJCP, EOC, EM, SFT]
8. EC: EOC Tracer #5: Construction site safetyFtxt [REF: JCSC, EOC, SFT]

**USEFUL LINKS & DOWNLOADS:

• Sample Medication-Related Standards: PrePub-BHC, PrePub-HAP, SPHCC Checklist
• New TJC Speak Up Video: Encouraged use of Healthcare Advocates (x1.5 min)
• BHC News – Issue 4, 2013
• Toolkit for Building a Clinician and Staff Support Program
• Patient Safety Initiative: Hospital Executive and Physician Leadership Strategies
  
• TJC Connect: Making Sure Your (EOC) Plans Get the Job Done (EC News, June 2013)
• TJC Tips for compliance: Maintaining fire equipment and building features
• 2014 National Patient Safety Goals Slide Presentation
• PR: Revised Requirements Maintain Alignment with CMS CoPs
• Latest TJC Blogs: Physician Leader Monthly – Leadership Blog

**SupporTips

• S-Tip#13: Click on Comments – One reason this newsletter is published as a collection of monthly blog posts is to provide a unique opportunity/forum for interaction around psychiatric compliance issues. At the top of each article (just after the posting date) is a ‘Comments’ link that will open a window for sharing your thoughts; seeing the ideas of other readers; asking a question and receiving feedback from your peers and/or our associates. Perhaps you have a tip or resource we did not think of. You may have survey experience with the article’s topic that could help others. Each article can now be the topic and focus of its own Mini-Discussion Board/Listserv. Even this Highlights section is open to your comments and suggestions. Click on Comments and try it out! Sharing makes our collaborative more valuable.

** Key: Ftxt=Full Text Link PR=Perspectives (JcE), TS=The Source (JcS), EC=EC News (JcE), CM=CMS, JO=JC Online, TP=JC Topics **[More Abbreviations] **