While the staff at Grand View Health go to great length to keep you safe, you also play an important role in your safety. The following are ways that you and the Grand View staff can work together to help ensure your stay with us is a safe one.
Our staff will take every precaution to prevent medical errors. As part of our prevention efforts, we will continually check your identity and ask you about your care. In addition, we encourage you to speak up if you have questions about your care. Research shows that patients who are more involved in their care tend to get better results.
All medications are prescribed by your physician and dispensed in the hospital pharmacy by registered pharmacists. You can help prevent medical errors by:
Should you want more detailed information, please ask your nurse for the brochure, Safe Medication Tips. Also ask for the Medication Card brochure to keep track of your medications.
Hand washing is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of infection and is the professional responsibility of all health-care workers. While you are at Grand View Health, feel free to ask your health-care workers whether they have washed their hands. Wash your own hands frequently. This will prevent you from spreading contaminants from one area of your body to another or to other patients.
If you are having surgery, make sure you have spoken with your surgeon and clearly understand what will be done. When preparing you for surgery, your nurse will ask you what type of surgery you will be having. Physician will mark the location of the surgery with the word “YES”.
Unfamiliar surroundings, the stress of a medical procedure, and medications can increase your risk of falling. Grand View Health has developed a Fall Prevention Program to help you and your visitors reduce your risk of falling. Should you be at risk for falling, we will place a yellow band on your wrist and yellow slipers on your feet to alert our health-care team to help keep you safe. You can further reduce your risk of falling by:
Please leave any items that could pose a safety threat to patients, visitors or staff at home. This includes guns, sharp scissors, pepper spray, mace, box cutters and knives. If we become aware of these items among your belongings, we will remove them from your room and lock them in our safe. Any items will be returned to you upon discharge.
Grand View Health holds routine fire drills for hospital employee preparedness. If a fire alarm sounds, return to your room. The nurse will close your room door.
Questions regarding hospital safety and/or security can be addressed by asking the switchboard operator to page a security officer on duty.