Catalog Number : ngd1863
Title : Hot Topics for CAH in 2013 and CMS Changes in Review
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 1-24-2014
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Purpose:

This is a must attend for any critical access hospital. It will discuss recent changes and survey hot spots. CMS is now issuing deficiency memo that summarize top problematic standards.

Webinar Objectives:

• Discuss recent memos and standard changes from CMS to the CAH Conditions of Participation
• Describe recommendations for hospitals to implement regarding restraint and seclusion to improve patient safety
• Recall recommendations to improve MRI safety

Target Audience:

Chief nursing officer, all nurses, nurse managers, nurse supervisors, nurse educator, HIM staff, compliance officer, chief of medical staff, Medical staff coordinator, risk manager, patient safety officer, senior leadership, documentation specialist, hospital legal counsel, PI director, Joint Commission coordinator, regulatory officers, legal counsel, chief operating officer, chief medical officer, physicians, board members, director of health information management, audit staff, and others responsible for compliance with hospital regulations including documentation compliance

A Few of the Topics that will be covered:

• Recent memos and standard changes to the CMS CAH CoPs (Conditions of Participation)
  • CMS CoP Introduction
  • How to locate a copy
  • New Manual Issued
  • CMS survey memos
  • June 7, 2013 and August 30, 2013 Changes
  • Proposed Changes expected out early 2014
  • Patient Care Policies
  • Outpatient Changes
  • Lab and Radiology Changes
  • Emergency procedures
  • New blue box advisories
  • CAH problematic standards
  • CAH Recent Deficiencies and CMS memo
  • New memo on PI reporting
  • Insulin pens and CMS Memo
  • Safe injection practices
  • Luer misconnection memo
  • Humidity memo
  • OPO contracts
  • Reporting to internal PI memo
  • Complaint manual memo and reporting to accreditation organizations
• Preventing and Managing an OR Fire
  • Do an assessment
  • Clinical guide to surgical fires
  • Be familiar with the recent guidelines
    • 2013 ASA changes, 2013 APSF changes. AORN recommendations etc.
  • Take a time out before every surgery
• Recommendations for hospitals to implement regarding restraint and seclusion to improve patient safety
  • Right to be free of restraints
    • CMS and TJC terminology V/SD
    • Leadership responsibility
    • Education requirements
    • Document the assessment
    • Notification of physician
    • Amendment of plan of care
    • Need P&P on restraints
• Recommendations to improve MRI safety
  • ACR 2013 new guidelines
  • MRI screening form
  • Education of staff
  • Audit compliance with P&P
  • Burns and missiles
  • TJC Sentinel Event Alert

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.

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.