Webinar - Acute Care Hospital CoPs Series Pt. 5 of 5
Offered Through Partnership with Georgia Hospital Association
Acute Care Hospital CoPs Series: Part 5 Infection Control, Discharge Planning, Organ, Surgery, PACU, Anesthesia, ED, Outpatient, Rehab, and Respiratory
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:
• Discuss that CMS requires many policies in the area of infection control
• Recall that patients who are referred to home health, Inpatient rehab, LTCH, and LTC must be given a list in writing of those available and this must be documented in the medical record
• Describe that all staff must be trained in the hospital’s policy on organ donation
• Recall that CMS has specific things that are required be documented in the medical record regarding the post-anesthesia assessment
• Recall that CMS has finalized the discharge planning worksheet and changes to the standards
Infection Control and the final changes
• Infection preventionist job responsibilities
• IP appointment
• IP role in antibiotic stewardship
• Final infection control worksheet
• IC revised worksheet and importance
• Policies and procedures required
• Mitigation of risks
• Safe injection practices
• Immediate use steam sterilization
• Temperature and humidity issues
• Medical equipment and supplies
• Log of incidents
• Mandatory training
Discharge Planning
• Final discharge planning worksheet
• Identification of patient needs,
• Discharge planning and evaluation
• Information to be given to the patient
• Discharge planning responsibility
• Identification of patients
• Transfers
• Referrals
• Self care
• Discharge plan and self-care evaluation
Organ, Tissue and Eye Procurement
• Policy requirements
• Organ donation training
• Family notification
• OPO Notification one call rule
Surgical & Anesthesia Services
• Follow standards of care
• Policies required
• Supervision requirement
• Preventing OR fires
• H&P
• Consent
• OR register
• Operative report
• Required equipment
• PACU
• Anesthesia policies required
• Anesthesia and analgesia standards
• Pre and post-anesthesia requirements
• Anesthesia staffing
• Documentation required
• Intra-operative anesthesia record
Outpatient Services and final changes
• No longer accountable to single individual
• Policies and procedures
• Meeting needs of patients
• Outpatient orders
• Documentation of care given in the OP department
• Orders required
• Department director job description and responsibilities
Emergency Services
• Following standards of practice
• Integrated into hospital PI
• Qualified medical director
• Policies required
• Training required
• Length of time to transport between departments
• EMTALA
Rehabilitation and Respiratory Services
• Integrated into QAPI
• Standards of care
• Qualified director
• Plan of care
• Scope of services
• Order needed
• Policies required
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.