Webinar - Acute Care Hospital CoPs Series Pt. 2 of 5
Offered Through Partnership with Georgia Hospital Association
Acute Care Hospital CoPs Series: Part 2 Patient Rights: Advance Directives, Consent, Interpreters, Grievances, Exercise of Patient Rights, Disclosures, Privacy, Safety, Ligature Risks, Abuse and Neglect, Confidentiality, Restraints and Visitation
The fee for each session is $200/member and $250/nonmember. If you register for all five sessions of either the Critical Access Hospital CoPs series or the Acute Care Hospital CoPs series, you will get the fifth session of the respective series free! Contact Cynthia Grinston at [email protected] for assistance in registering for the full series to ensure you receive the discounted offer.
Please note our new pricing! To support social distancing and remote work, a single registration provides unlimited lines for all employees and trustees of your hospital or system, including a link to view the recording. Please register just one person from your facility and have that person share the access information with others who wish to participate.
Not sure if you’ll be able to make the live session? Everyone who registers will receive a link to the recording of the webinar to view at your convenience at no additional charge.
Objectives:
• Recall that CMS has restraint standards that hospitals must follow
• Describe that the patient has a right to file a grievance and the hospital must have a grievance policy and procedure in place
• Recall that interpreters should be provided for patients with limited English proficiency and this should be documented in the medical record
• Discuss the patients’ rights regarding Advanced Directives
Patient Rights
• Final changes
• Most problematic standards for hospitals
• Penalties for not giving patients timely access to their medical records
• Safety of behavioral health patients and ligature risks
• Right to privacy and safety
• OCR Section 1557
• Right to an IM Notice for Medicare patients
• Interpreters
• Low health literacy
• Advance directives
• Informed consent
• Abuse and neglect
• Criminal background checks
• Grievances and complaints (TJC)
• Visitation requirement
• Plan of care
• Informed consent
• Advance directives
• Care in a safe setting
• Patient medical records
• Access to medical records
• Restraint and seclusion-high number of deficiencies for hospitals
• Visitation
Who Should Attend?
CEO’s, COO’s, Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Quality
Managers, Consumer Advocate, Nurse Educators, Department directors, All
Nurses, Risk Managers, Hospital Legal Counsel, Compliance Officers, Joint
Commission Liaison, Director of Health Information, Case Managers, Chief
Medical Officer, Nurse Educator, Pharmacists, 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, Medication
Management Team, Anesthesia and Surgery staff, PACU Director, Policy and
Procedures Committee, Respiratory Therapy Director, Director of Radiology,
Infection Preventionist, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Director, and Staff Nurses.
Speaker
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Laura Dixon, BS, JD, RN, CPHRM
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Laura A. Dixon served as the Director, Facility Patient Safety and Risk Management and Operations for COPIC from 2014 to 2020. In her role, Ms. Dixon provided patient safety and risk management consultation and training to facilities, practitioners, and staff in multiple states. Such services included creation of and presentations on risk management topics, assessment of healthcare facilities; and development of programs and compilation of reference materials that complement physician-oriented products.
Ms. Dixon has more than twenty years of clinical experience in acute care facilities, including critical care, coronary care, peri-operative services, and pain management. Prior to joining COPIC, she served as the Director, Western Region, Patient Safety and Risk Management for The Doctors Company, Napa, California. In this capacity, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation to the physicians and staff for the western United States.
As a registered nurse and attorney, Laura holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Regis University of Denver, a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Drake University College of Law, Des Moines, Iowa, and a Registered Nurse Diploma from Saint Luke’s School Professional Nursing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is licensed to practice law in Colorado and California.