St Valentine ’ s Day Raffle
The Pink Ladies held a St Valentine ’ s Day Raffle, with fantastic gift boxes full of chocolate treats as prizes. The raffle was drawn on 14 February, with the first prize going to Radha from Allied Health. Other prizes were won by lucky visitors to the hospital. There were other Valentine gifts on sale on the day with the knitted red roses being a huge success. We would like to take the opportunity to thank the wonderful work of the Pink Ladies supporting
Patient Identification
Correctly identifying and implementing processes to match patients to their intended care is critical to ensuring patient safety. Risks to patient safety occur when there is a mismatch between a patient and components of their care. This includes diagnostic, therapeutic and supportive care. Within NSLHD at least 3 patient identifiers must be used to confirm a patient ’ s identity for patient registration, when providing care and when transferring responsibility for care. The approved Patient Identifiers include:
If the patient is incapable of responding (e.g. dementia, confusion) a Carer or relative should be asked. Red wrist bands used to indicate the patient has a known adverse drug reaction must not contain details of the ADR/allergy. The red band is purely to alert staff to seek the details of the ADR/allergy which will be recorded in the patient ’ s notes.
Only one wrist band should be used.
The patient ’ s room/bed number must not be used to identify the patient.
• name (first name and surname = one identifier) • date of birth
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Staff must always ask the patient, or their person responsible, to state their full name and date of birth. Staff must NOT state the patient's name or DOB then ask the patient/person re- sponsible if this information is correct.
• address • gender • medical record number • individual healthcare identifier
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