• Safety Tips For Patients
Become An Active Member In Your Health Care Team
• Speak up if you have questions or concerns.
• Make a list of questions for your care providers
so that you will be less likely to forget.
• Make sure you can see and hear when your care providers are answering your questions. Ask a relative or friend to be with you if you think this will help you remember and understand
the answers.
• Make sure you get the results of any test or procedure. Ask what the results
mean for you.
Preventing Slips and Falls
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If you are asked to not get up without assistance, please don't. This is for your
protection.
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Make sure you can easily reach your call button, telephone and other personal items
that you might need.
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Ask your nurse to make sure that your bed is in the low position.
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If you are allowed to get out of bed without assistance make sure that there is a light on
and that equipment is out of your way.
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If you do not have your own non-skid slippers, ask your nurse to provide you with a pair.
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Preventing Medication Problems
- Make sure that all of your health care providers
 know everything you are taking; this
includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins and herbs.
- Make sure your doctors, nurses and pharmacists know about any allergies that you have
experienced or any side effects that you have had to medications.
- Ask for information about your medicines in terms you can understand.
- If you think that you have missed receiving a medication, ask the nurse.
- If you are uncomfortable about receiving a medication, you have the right to refuse it.
Then make sure you discuss this with your doctor.
- If you have questions about your medications, speak with a pharmacist.
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