Catalog Number : ngd1700
Title : Legal Issues in Surgery
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 5-1-2014
Webplay Price : $ 125 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Purpose:

The CDC says there are 1.7 million healthcare infections and 99,000 deaths every year in America. Should infection control be a focus area for your surgical patients this year?

This webinar will discuss some of the important CMS hospital interpretive guidelines related to operative reports, OR register, humidity in the OR, the pre and post-anesthesia requirements, history and physical requirements and more! CMS has a worksheet which includes safe injection practices requirements along with a surgical tracer.

Webinar Objectives:

• Discuss the importance of having a surgery checklist which includes the risk for fire
• Explain that both CMS and Joint Commission have requirements for informed consent, history and physicals, and verbal orders
• Review the CMS hospital requirements of a post-anesthesia evaluation
• Identify the common legal and risk management issues in surgery such as documentation, policies and procedures, chain of command and unanticipated outcomes and disclosure

Target Audience: 

OR Manager, OR Nurses, Surgeons, Anesthesia Providers, PACU Nurses, PACU Manager, Nurse Manager Outpatient Surgery, Outpatient Surgery Staff, Risk Manager, Nurse Educators, PI Director, Quality Managers, Joint Commission Coordinator, Compliance Officer, Nurse Educator, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Medical Officer, compliance officer, Joint Commission Manager, Patient Safety Officer, anesthesiologists, and OR and PACU Staff, and others involved in promoting Patient Safety and reducing risk of surgical patients

A Few of the Topics that will be covered:

• Preventing and maintaining an OR Fire- the revised standards
• CMS memo on humidity in the OR
• New CMS hospital manual
  • Number of Deficiencies by CMS in surgery, PACU and anesthesia
  • CMS pre-anesthesia assessment requirements for hospitals
  • CMS hospital post-anesthesia requirements
  • CMS hospital Intra-operative assessment standards
  • CMS new hospital worksheet related to surgery issues
  • CMS and TJC H&P (history and physical) requirements
• Surgery equipment required by CMS
• TJC and CMS OR register requirements
• TJC and CMS Operative Report requirements
• Verbal orders changes June 7, 2013 by CMS and TJC
• Informed consent (TJC and CMS)
• Informed patients and expectations
• Postoperative phone calls
• Reportable occurrences
• CMS Policies required for surgery
• ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists) resources on ASC
• Surgery Patient Institute
• ACS recommendations for safe surgery
• Chain of command
• Surgical checklist
• WHO list and Joint Commission requirement
• Team work in the OR
• Unanticipated outcomes and disclosure
• Documentation
• Infection control issues
• Sterilization issues, immediate use
• Safe injections including the CDC and CMS standards and CMS worksheet
• IHI surgery trigger tool
• Security of medication and CMS guidelines in the OR
• ASA standards and guidelines
• Policies required by CMS
• Communication issues
• Malignant hyperthermia
• Anesthesia awareness and more

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.