Peer Support Opportunity

The Oregon Patient Safety Commission is recruiting healthcare organizations for its intensive peer support program. Learn more below.

Consistent and proactive peer support programs are useful after any event that hits caregivers hard, from an unexpected patient harm event, to the death of a beloved patient/resident or colleague, to the aftermath of a natural disaster or other traumatic event in the local community. Peer support has been shown to relieve caregiver stress and anxiety, increase caregiver work satisfaction and retention rates, improve employee morale, and help caregivers communicate more effectively with patients and families. It is also hard to ignore the business case for peer support—a recent study at Johns Hopkins Hospital estimated an annual savings of $22,576.05 per nurse who used its peer support program.

If your healthcare organization wants to provide peer support for your caregivers, you can receive one year of intensive support to develop and implement your program, with guidance from nationally-recognized expert faculty in a collaborative learning environment alongside other organizations.

Next Steps

• Learn more. Information about this opportunity, led by the Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC), is available on OPSC’s website.
• Contact OPSC by July 28, 2017. If you are interested in participating, contact Barbara Wade or Beth Kaye.