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Good Catch Awards Criteria

Purpose:

Recognizing individual staff, physicians and Departments/Teams for their efforts to and ensure the safety of patients is a strong tactic that promotes professional satisfaction and engagement.  Staff empowerment to identify potential and speak up in order to prevent potential medical errors stands as one of the strongest building blocks for a trustworthy organizational culture of safety.

ADN PSO’s Good Catch Awards program offers a tiered approach to acknowledging extraordinary achievements made by individuals, departments or teams, and organizations that use their findings associated with near miss data to implement strategies and processes that work.

Eligibility:

All Good Catch Campaign organizations are invited to submit applications to celebrate successes in reducing risk and preventing patient harm.  Good Catch Award winners will be acknowledged in March 2018 during Patient Safety Awareness Week.  ADN PSO’s award categories are designed to recognize individuals, departments or teams, and whole organizations who have demonstrated excellence in patient safety.

During each quarter in 2017, ADN PSO will select one individual staff member and one physician from among all applications submitted. The quarterly winners will automatically become eligible for selection as a recipient of an annual Good Catch individual award.  In addition, ADN PSO will present annual awards to one standout department and one organization that demonstrate success in shaping culture and improving patient safety as the result of increased near miss reporting.

Organizations are permitted to submit multiple applications within each award category.

Application Criteria:

Individual Staff Award (Quarterly Submission):

Deadlines:

  • 1Q2017 = May 1, 2017
  • 2Q2017 = August 1, 2017
  • 3Q2017 = November 1, 2017
  • 4Q2017 =February 1, 2018

Submissions will demonstrate a successful, reported Good Catch that prevented risk and/or harm to a patient(s). The award application should:

  • Describe the circumstances surrounding the near miss, including where it occurred, how it was identified, what risk/harm was prevented, corrective actions taken to prevent future risk/harm, and other details regarding nominee’s role.

Submit Application

Individual Physician Award (Quarterly Submission):

Deadlines:

  • 1Q2017 = May 1, 2017
  • 2Q2017 = August 1, 2017
  • 3Q2017 = November 1, 2017
  • 4Q2017 =February 1, 2018

Submissions will demonstrate a successful, reported Good Catch that prevented risk and/or harm to a patient(s). The submission application should:

  • Describe the circumstances surrounding the near miss, including where it occurred, how it was identified, what risk/harm was prevented, corrective actions taken to prevent future risk/harm, and other details regarding nominee’s role.

Submit Application

Departments/Teams Award (Annual Submission)

Deadline: February 1, 2018

Submissions will demonstrate successful use of near miss data to select a priority project, redesign a fractured system or process, and implement a change strategy.  Please also include the project’s current state of sustainability.  The submission application should:

  • Narratively describe the work of the department/team/committee, including but not limited to:
    1. Describe how analysis of near miss data was used to identify the improvement project.
    2. Provide an explanation and supporting evidence for why this project was internally prioritized (e.g., # of potentially preventable events, impact across departments, alignment with organizational strategic goals, etc.).
    3. Describe the project’s planning and implementation phases, including application of patient safety sciences and/or tools utilized (e.g., team formation, goal setting, collaboration across disciplines, etc.).
    4. List the measurable goals established by the team for ongoing project evaluation.
    5. Provide results for each measurable goal and other lessons learned.
    6. Describe how the project and/or results will be sustained within the organization (e.g., resources, accountability, impact on overall culture of safety, quantifiable risk/harm reduction, etc.).

Submit Application

Healthcare Organizations:

The “Good Catch” overall recognition will be awarded to  the healthcare organization which has demonstrated the highest percentage increase over their 2016 baseline data.

Application Review:

A respected panel of judges will review applications submitted by participating organizations. Winners and their organizations will be notified by ADNPSO.

Note that participation in the Good Catch campaign does not constitute PSO membership nor does it invoke any federal protections associated with PSO participation.

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