Patient Safety Officer (PSO) and Reporter Resources

PA-PSRS

• Training Manual and Users’ Guide: Using PA-PSRS
  Upon log in to PA-PSRS, patient safety officers and other facility-designated users can access the Training Manual and Users’ Guide under the "Resources" menu.
  

PSA Resources

• Keys to Investigation Toolkit

  View webinars and strategies from the yearlong series designed to help facilities with the investigation of patient safety events.

• Patient Safety Topics

  The PSA offers all of its available resources and research into specific patient safety topics; browse all to learn more.

• Get to Know Your Patient Safety Advisor

  The PSA's patient safety advisors by coverage region, and read more about them under Consultative Services.

• Patient Safety Committee Community Member Packet and Checklist

  Do you need volunteers for your Patient Safety Committee Community? We created a packet and checklist to help PSOs recruit, onboard, and retain community members.

• PSA Online Learning Management System (LMS)

  Courses cover a variety of patient safety topics including: patient safety fundamentals, analyses from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS), emerging risks and potential prevention strategies. Courses are free to everyone, and PA nurses can receive continuing education credits for completing selected courses.​
  

• Patient Safety Plan Tip Sheet​
  Review this tip sheet for ideas on how to improve your patient safety plan.
  

• Sample Patient Safety Plan​
  Use this sample as a template to create or review your patient safety plan.
  

Quick Links

• Act 13 Definitions
  
• Event Reporting Examples
  
• Event Reporting Decision Tree ​
  
• Final Guidance on Reporting Requirements
  
• Final Guidance on Reporting Pressure Injuries
• Harm Score
• Patient Safety Advisor Program
• Final Guidance FAQs
• Incidents and Serious Events
• Infrastructure Failures
• Other Events

Use this interactive Reporting Decision Tree to determine if an event needs to be reported, and if so, the appropriate classification.