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"Patient Safety Index" - Tired
Posted: Apr 11, 2015
Hey, has anyone noticed a category called "Patient Safety Index" on your "performance scorecard?" Once a week I get a performance scorecard from my TSM. This patient safety index is based on the amount of errors you are marked down for. So if you have 4 post-audits, and one is marked down for something, your "patient safety index" will be 75% (with the minimum standard being 90%). It apparently goes by percentage of reports. So that means that under the Quality 2.0 plan (which she keeps saying we will be "moving to"), it means that any errors you make will be counted against you TWICE -- once when you are marked down for the error, and again on this "Patient Safety Index." Don't be surprised if they come out with a new pay grid to take advantage of being able to count any errors against you TWICE and lower your pay that much more. If they do that, I am out of here.
seems that I remember this - Mrs.Buns
[ In Reply To ..]from way back last year, that N was setting up FIESA to calculate quality in other, different ways -- but for the time being they weren't going to use it on any official basis. Wasn't it a Pass/Fail system of some sort? My TSM doesn't send out scorecards much, and I don't remember her ever including this statistic in any of her emails. Hopefully N won't begin using it anytime soon!
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