Product Details

 

This fast-paced presentation will cover many risk management hot topics that affect patient safety in today’s healthcare environment. Our expert will discuss over two dozen recent changes to the hospital CoPs affecting patient safety, TJC’s Patient Safety Systems chapter, the National Patient Safety Foundation’s eight recommendations for achieving total systems safety, and TJC's patient-centered communication standards.

This program will highlight recent patient safety resources published by healthcare organizations, including the Becker’s top ten patient safety issues, ECRI Institute’s Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations for 2018, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s patient safety tools and resources.

Create a culture around patient safety!

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After this webinar participants will be able to:

1. Describe CMS' QAPI section on patient safety.
2. Explain how TJC's standard on patient-centered communication includes interpreter requirements. 
3. List the top 10 safety issues as dictated by the ECRI Institute.
4. Explain that physicians are required to date and time signed-off verbal orders.

Agenda topics:

- Patient-centered communication	- Section 1557	- Culture of safety
- Timing of medications	- Verbal orders	- ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns
- Medication error reporting	- ISMP IV Push guidelines	- Discharge planning
- Teamwork & communication	- Standing orders	- Infection control
- Patient Safety Systems chapter	- Revised worksheets	- Hospital CoP on patient safety
- 30-minute rule	- Opioid use	- ADE & near misses
- Privacy & confidentiality memo	- IV medication	- Radiation exposure
- Anesthesia evaluation changes	- 10 CDC requirements	- Blood transfusion
- Medication reconciliation	- Trigger tools to detect errors	- IHI's patient safety resolutions
- 20 readmission prevention tips	- Safe injection practices	And so much more!

 

Your order includes:  

• Recording of the presentation.
• Access to the specially created presentation handouts (approximately 48 hours in advance).

Your Speaker: Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD

Sue is a nurse attorney, medico-legal consultant and long-time educator for nurses, physicians, and other healthcare providers. She is a frequent speaker and is well known across the country in the areas of healthcare law, risk management, and patient safety. She has authored over 100 books and hundreds of articles. For AHC Media, she authored Cracking the Code: Understanding the CMS Hospital CoP Standards on Anesthesia.

Ms. Calloway received her Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing, and Doctor of Jurisprudence from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Additionally, she is certified in healthcare risk management by the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management and is the first in the country to be certified in CMS regulatory compliance.

Target Audience:

Anyone involved with or interested in patient safety regulations and standards, including but not limited to: CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CMOs, CNOs, CE Directors, Department Directors, Quality Improvement Staff, Physicians, Nurses (all levels), Compliance Officers, CMS Liaisons, TJC Liaisons, Registration Staff, Safety Officers and Staff, Pharmacy Staff, Ethics Committee Members, Consumer Advocates, Risk Managers, Legal Counsel, Behavioral Health Staff, Psychiatry Staff, Discharge Planners, Hospice Staff, Regulatory Affairs Staff, and anyone involved in patient safety administration.