Speak Up: the videos
Speak Up™ is a patient safety campaign from The Joint Commission. It exists to help patients advocate for themselves — to ask the question, check the medicine, and say something when something looks wrong. Every video below runs under three minutes, and every one is available in English and Spanish.
Cada vídeo está disponible en inglés y español.
Speak Up about your care
How to become an active participant in your own care rather than a passenger in it — and why the people treating you want you to be.
Speak Up for your rights
You have the right to be informed and to make decisions about your care, to care free from discrimination, and to have an advocate with you. This covers what those rights actually are.
Speak Up for safe surgery
How to plan for an operation and what to do before and after it. Being an informed member of the surgical team is one of the things that makes surgery go well.
Speak Up to avoid a return trip to the hospital
Where you go after a hospital stay depends on the care you need, but the goal is always the same — not coming back. Know your follow-up steps, and if the medicines or instructions don't make sense, say so.
Speak Up to prevent infection
Diego takes a few simple steps to protect himself and his grandmother from infection. Small things, done consistently, are most of infection control.
Speak Up to prevent falls
Whether you're in a care facility or moving around your own home, a few precautions cut your risk of falling considerably. The residents of Safe Harbor show how.
Speak Up: antibiotics, know the facts
Taking an antibiotic you don't need kills the good bacteria in your body and makes you more resistant next time. They're life-saving drugs used properly. Speak up against overuse.
Speak Up against discrimination
What your rights are, and what you can do if you believe you're being discriminated against or receiving substandard care because of who you are.
Speak Up for your mental health
How to advocate for yourself and your mental health — asking for help, and being heard when you do.
If you need help now, call or text 988 — the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, free and confidential, any time.
The rest of the safety library
Speak Up brochures, fall prevention, infection control, blood thinners and pain management — all written for patients and families.