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Catalog Number : ngd1673
Title : Advanced Directive Update: Complying with CMS & The Joint Commission
Speaker : Sue Dill

Duration : 90 minutes

Webplay Recording Date : 1-22-2010
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Description:

This program will cover in detail advance directives such as living will, durable power of attorney, organ donation, mental health declaration, and do not resuscitate orders. It will include 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.

Target Audience:

  • Consumer advocate
  • Nurse Educator
  • Ethicist
  • Ethic Committee Members
  • Nurses
  • Physicians
  • Chief Nursing Officer
  • Nurse Managers
  • Risk Managers
  • Compliance Officers
  • Quality Improvement Director
  • Joint Commission Coordinator
  • Hospital Legal Counsel
  • Director of Registration
  • Behavioral Health Staff
  • Psychiatrist
  • Patient Safety Officer
  • Physicians

Webinar Objectives:

  • Recall the CMS Conditions of Participation requirements for advance directives
  • Describe the 2010 Joint Commission standards on advance directives
  • Explain what is required of hospitals under the federal law on the Patient Self Determination Act

A few of the topics to be discussed:

  • Introduction
  • CMS CoP on advance directives
  • 2010 Joint Commission standards on advance directives
  • Federal law on Patient Self Determination Act
  • 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, etc.)
  • Joint Commission Tracer
  • Resources
  • Freestanding ambulatory surgery center advance directive CfCs

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.

Completion of offering required prior to awarding certificate.

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.