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Catalog Number : ncd1369
Title : CMS & Joint Commission Advanced Directives
Speaker : Sue Dill

Duration : 90 minutes

Webplay Recording Date : 2-19-2014
Webplay Price : $ 125 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:
This webinar will cover in detail advance directives such as living will, durable power of attorney, organ donation, mental health declaration, organ donor cards, patient advocates and do not resuscitate orders. It will include the Joint Commission, CMS Hospital Conditions of Participation, case law discussion, organization position statements on DNR (do not resuscitate) and other federal laws on advance directives. Do you know the four rights provided to patient representatives? These are very interesting changes to the CMS hospital CoP manual.

Webinar Objectives:

  • Recall that the CMS Conditions of Participation has requirements for advance directives for hospitals
  • Describe that the Joint Commission has standards on advance directives
  • Explain what is required of hospitals under the federal law "Patient Self Determination Act"
  • Discuss the CMS regulations on visitation and what a visitation advance directive is
  • Discuss that information on the hospital's advance directive policies must be given to inpatients, ED, observation, and same day surgery patients under the CMS CoP hospital manual

Target Audience:

  • Consumer advocate, Nurse Educator, All nurses with direct patient care, registration staff, Ethicist, Ethic Committee Members, Physicians, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Nurse Educators, Nurse Managers, Nurse Supervisors, Risk Managers, Compliance Officers, Quality Improvement Director, Joint Commission Coordinator, Hospital Legal Counsel, Director of Registration, Behavioral Health Staff, Psychiatrist, Patient Safety Officer, Social Workers, Discharge Planners, Outpatient and Emergency Department managers, OR director, hospice unit staff, patient safety officer, and Physicians

Webinar Outline:

  • Introduction
  • CMS CoP on advance directives
    • Revises tag 132
    • Must be given to inpatients, ED, observation, and same day surgery patients
    • Visitation advance directive
    • Patient representative and new patient rights
  • Joint Commission standards on advance directives
  • Federal law on Patient Self Determination Act
  • Community education requirement
  • Documenting advance directives under Record of Care chapter
  • Case law update
  • Requirements of the Patient Self Determination Act
  • Informed consent requirements
  • Living wills, DPOA, DNR orders, mental health declarations, organ donor
  • Assisted suicide
  • Professional organization position statements on DNR (AORN, ACS, ASA, ASPAN, ACEP, ENA etc.)
  • Joint Commission Tracer
  • Joint Commission standard under RI and RC chapters
  • Visitation Advance Directive under CMS and TJC visitation standard
  • Resources

Contact Hours:

  • Nursing participants: Instruct-online has approved this program for 1.8 contact hours, Iowa Board of Nursing Approved Provider Number 339.
  • All other participants: Must attend the entire Webinar and complete a Webinar critique to receive a 1.5 Hour Attendance Certificate for each program.

Refund Policy:

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.