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Catalog Number : ngd1919
Title : Critical Access Hospital Changes & Top Problematic Standards
Speaker : Sue Dill

Duration : 90 minutes

Webplay Recording Date : 7-25-2014
Webplay Price : $ 125 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

This is a must attend for any critical access hospital. It will discuss recent changes and survey hot spots. CMS is now issuing a quarterly deficiency memo that summarizes top problematic standards for hospitals including critical access hospitals. It will discuss a number of recent CMS memos that every hospital should be aware. It will discuss MRI safety, preventing an OR fire and restraint and seclusion use in a CAH.

Target Audience:

CEO's, COO's, Chief Nursing Officer, Nurses, Quality Managers, Consumer Advocate, Risk Managers, Hospital Legal Counsel, Compliance Officers, Joint Commission Liaison, Director of Health Information, Case Managers, Chief Medical Officer, Nurse Educator, Pharmacist, Social Workers, Discharge Planners, PI Coordinator, Joint Commission Coordinator, Patient Safety Officer, Patient Safety Committee, Nurse Managers, Outpatient Director, Director of Rehab, Dieticians, Infection Control Preventionist, Medication Management Team, Anesthesia and Surgery staff, PACU Director, Policy and Procedures Committee, Respiratory Therapy Director, Director of Radiology, Radiology staff, ethics committee, policy committee, infection control committee members, Infection Preventionist, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Director, and Staff Nurses and anyone who is a direct patient care giver

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

A few of the topics to be discussed:

Recent memos and standard changes to the CMS CAH CoPs (Conditions of Participation)

  • CMS CoP Introduction
  • How to locate a copy of manual and survey memos
  • New Manual Issued
  • CMS survey memos
  • June 7, 2013 and August 30, 2013 Changes
  • Equipment maintenance 2014 changes
  • Proposed Changes expected in 2014
  • Proposed emergency disaster preparedness and revised checklist
  • 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.

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.