Catalog Number : ncd1182
Title : The Joint Commission: National Patient Safety Update
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 7-6-2006
Webplay Price : $ 225 for two weeks viewing

Teleconference/Webinar Presenter: Sue Dill Calloway, RN, Esq., AD, BA, BSN, MSN, JD

Teleconference/Webinar Title: The Joint Commission: Patient Safety Goals

Teleconference/Webinar Level: Basic

Teleconference/Webinar Objectives:

• Prepare for the upcoming changes in the 2008 National Patient Safety Goals and related requirements
• Identify ways to prepare your facility for the new requirements by the target date of January 2009
• Utilize the new changes to improve patient care

The following are only a few of the topics to be discussed:

• Patient identification
• Communication among caregivers
• Medication safety/anticoagulant therapy
• Wrong-site surgery (Universal Protocol)
• Health care-associated infections
• Reconciliation of medications
• Patient falls
• Patient safety
• Suicide risk
• Improve recognition/response to changes in condition

Prerequisities: The need to know about the patient safety goals.

Target Audience: CEO, CFO, CNO, The Joint Commission Coordinator, Pharmacy Director and Pharmacists, Nursing Leadership, Emergency Manager and Staff, Compliance Officer, Risk Managers, PI Director, Quality Improvement Coordinators, Chief Medical Officer, Patient Safety Officer and Staff, and Professional Staff Nurses.

Nursing Contact Hours: This course has been approved for 2.4 Iowa Nursing Contact Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.