Catalog Number : ngd1483
Title : Risk Management and Patient Safety Update
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 150
Webplay Price : $ for two weeks viewing

Webinar Description:

This webinar will cover hot topics in risk management that impact patient safety. It will discuss the Joint Commission standard on ten things risk managers should understand about the patient centered communication standards on use of interpreters, low health literacy and the medication reconciliation standards. The webinar will cover what it means to have a culture of safety and the reporting of medical errors. It will discuss the top 10 patient safety concerns for healthcare organization as determined by ECRI Institute.

Webinar Objectives:

• Explain that the Joint Commission has a standard on patient centered communication which includes requirements for interpreters
• Describe the new CMS requirement in the anesthesia standards that a post anesthesia evaluation be done on all surgery patients who have had anesthesia within 48 hours and how this is done on outpatients
• Discuss the five top problematic standards for hospitals by the Joint Commission
• Discuss that a physician who signs off on a verbal order must also date and time it
• Recall that CMS has over 2 dozen new changes to the hospital CoPs including standing orders
• Discuss the ECRI Institute identified ten top patient safety concerns for 2014

• Risk Managers, Patient Safety Officer, COO, CNO, ED Manager, Nurse Managers/Supervisors, OR Nurse Manager, Compliance Officer, JC Coordinator, Quality Improvement personnel, Consumer Advocates, Staff Nurses, In-house Legal Counsel, Nurse Educator, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacists and anyone interested in risk management and patient safety issues

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

• Joint Commission patient centered communication standard o Ten things on interpreters risk managers should know
• Culture of safety and medical error reporting
• Top 10 patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations in 2014 by ECRI Institute
  • Data integrity failures, poor care coordination with next level of care, test results reporting errors, drug shortages, managing behavioral health patients, mislabeled specimens, endoscope processing, respiratory depression in patient receiving opioids, etc.
• Fatigue and patient safety issues
• Teamwork and communication
• Verbal orders CMS and TJC requirements
• CMS 2 Dozen Hospital CoP Changes
  • 2014 changes
• CMS revised worksheets on PI, infection control and discharge planning
• CMS changes to the 30 minute rule and timing of medications
  • 2014 changes on medication management & opioid use
• CMS revised standard medication errors, ADE, near misses and reporting(Tag 508)
• CMS standing orders
• Changes to CMS IV Medication and blood transfusion training
• CMS privacy and confidentiality memo
• Safe injection practices and 10 CDC requirements every risk manager should know and CMS new changes
• Preventing readmission 20 tips for risk managers
• H&P CMS and TJC
• CMS restraint and seclusion 20 tips to ensure compliance
• CMS post anesthesia evaluation changes
• TJC top five hot compliance standards
• Alarm fatigue
• Radiation exposure recent issues
• Preventing OR fires and 15 things risk managers can do
• Medication Reconciliation standards by TJC
• 20 tips to prevent patient falls
• Use of trigger tools to detect errors and improve patient safety
• Ensure a visitation policy that is compliant with CMS and TJC

Nursing participants: Instruct-online has approved this program for 2.4 contact hours, Iowa Board of Nursing Approved Provider Number 339. Completion of offering required prior to awarding certificate.

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