The primary purpose of a cockpit
checklist is to ensure we properly configure the aircraft for the phase of flight.
Use the
checklist in a simulated environment, especially if the outcome is critical.
A radiography
checklist can highlight those aspects of image production that are essential to attain diagnostic exposures, reduce the incidence of errors that require image re-exposure, and increase patient safety.
Be Professional, Proficient The more familiar you are with your duties and
checklists, the more you will recognize when a
checklist step is skipped, done out of order, or done incorrectly.
Inspired by the successful use of
checklists in aviation and different health-care departments, a RALRP procedural
checklist was developed to help staff set up the theatre and work through the procedure.
The M3
Checklist is a twenty-seven-item self-report symptom
checklist that examines whether during the past two weeks the participant experienced symptoms of major depressive disorder (seven questions), generalized anxiety disorder (two questions), panic disorder (two questions), social anxiety disorder (one question), PTSD (four questions), and/or OCD (three questions).
Three years on from Mark's story, Miranda Pope, charge nurse manager at Canterbury District Health Board, sees a lot of progress, but still sometimes a misunderstanding of the essence of the
checklist. Miranda is also nursing clinical lead for the Health Quality & Safety Commission's perioperative harm prevention programme.
If it is mandated, it may not achieve the same result." What's more, he said, referring to early studies that found cuts in mortality as high as 50 percent based on the use of
checklists in surgery, "That's a really big effect.
"These are transformative years in a person's life, and this
checklist will help support the growth and potential of every student from day one."
In 2009, the scope of the
checklist in Turkey was expanded by the Head of Department of Quality and Accreditation, it was put into use with the name "Safe Surgery ChecklistTR" (SSCTR).
We continue to be focused on improving surgical safety and are delighted to have successfully implemented the WHO's Surgical Safety
Checklist. This simple
checklist has been shown to significantly reduce surgical complications and through its implementation, we have helped patients achieve faster recovery rates and improved health outcomes, including reducing the length of hospital stay.
(3-6) Along these lines, we have previously shown that a Web-based
checklist can improve the completeness of synoptic reporting in surgical pathology.
