Why Should You Attend:
Did you know there were over eighteen recent memos of importance to nursing in the recent past? Did you know there have been many changes nursing chapter in the past years including three proposed changes in 2019? The proposed changes are in the Hospital Improvement Rule. It will discuss plans of care, staffing, policy changes, when a RN is required in an outpatient department, documentation, supervision, nursing leadership, verbal orders, antibiotic stewardship program requirement and more.
Did you know that CMS has issued deficiency reports which includes which are the most problematic standards for hospitals? Did you know that nursing services has been cited over 4,740 times according to the most recent report?
This is a must attend program for any clinical nurse or nurse leader or person interested in ensuring compliance with the CMS hospital conditions of participation in nursing.
Recently, there has been increased scrutiny and surveillance to make sure that all hospitals are in compliance with the hospital CoPs. Don’t be caught off guard and put your hospital’s reimbursement at risk. If a surveyor showed up at your door tomorrow, would you be prepared?
This program will also reference other important sections that all nurses should be aware that are found outside the nursing services section such as medication standards, verbal orders, history and physicals, visitation, restraint and seclusion and grievances, discharge planning standards and privacy and confidentiality.Areas Covered in the Webinar:
Introduction into the CMS hospital CoPs
Where to locate a copy
CMS deficiency reports and problematic standards
How to get apprised of changes
Changes to medication management, IV, blood, and opioid safe use
Proposed changes under the Hospital Improvement Act
ISMP IV push guidelines
Safe injection practices
Changes related to safe injection practices, compounding, medication preparation, immediate use, and labeling
Revised CMS Hospital work sheets and importance
CMS memos of interest
Rewrote all the discharge planning standards
Hospital deficiencies
Reporting to the PI system
Insulin pens and safe injection practices
New interpretive guidelines
Luer misconnections
Organ Procurement Organization Contracts
Discharge planning standards
CMS complaint manual
Humidity in the OR
Federal regulation changes
Final interpretive guidelines and changes
Most current CMS Manual
Many recent changes to 9 tag numbers
Starts at Tag 385 and goes to tag 413
Nursing Services and 24 hours services
Third revised worksheet
RN on duty
Integrated with hospital wide PI program
Organizational chart and nursing
Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) responsibilities
CNO requirements
CNO approval of nursing policies
Staffing and delivery of care
24 hour nursing services and supervision
Valid license for nurses and verification
RN to evaluate to care of all patients
Nursing care plans
Changes to the plan of care
Agency nurse requirements
Orientation of agency nurses
Medication administration
Order required for all medications
Standards of care and practice to prevent HAI
BUD, compounding sterile preparations (CSP)
Immediate use CSP
Administration one hour rule
Safe injection practices
Standing orders and protocols
Three medications timing changes
Protocols, standing orders, order sets
Tag 405 standards moved to 457
Requirements for complete drug order
Verbal orders and verbal orders changes
Blood transfusions and IV medications changes
Self-administered medications
Did you know there were over eighteen recent memos of importance to nursing in the recent past? Did you know there have been many changes nursing chapter in the past years including three proposed changes in 2019? The proposed changes are in the Hospital Improvement Rule. It will discuss plans of care, staffing, policy changes, when a RN is required in an outpatient department, documentation, supervision, nursing leadership, verbal orders, antibiotic stewardship program requirement and more.
Did you know that CMS has issued deficiency reports which includes which are the most problematic standards for hospitals? Did you know that nursing services has been cited over 4,740 times according to the most recent report?
This is a must attend program for any clinical nurse or nurse leader or person interested in ensuring compliance with the CMS hospital conditions of participation in nursing.
Recently, there has been increased scrutiny and surveillance to make sure that all hospitals are in compliance with the hospital CoPs. Don’t be caught off guard and put your hospital’s reimbursement at risk. If a surveyor showed up at your door tomorrow, would you be prepared?
This program will also reference other important sections that all nurses should be aware that are found outside the nursing services section such as medication standards, verbal orders, history and physicals, visitation, restraint and seclusion and grievances, discharge planning standards and privacy and confidentiality.Areas Covered in the Webinar:
Introduction into the CMS hospital CoPs
Where to locate a copy
CMS deficiency reports and problematic standards
How to get apprised of changes
Changes to medication management, IV, blood, and opioid safe use
Proposed changes under the Hospital Improvement Act
ISMP IV push guidelines
Safe injection practices
Changes related to safe injection practices, compounding, medication preparation, immediate use, and labeling
Revised CMS Hospital work sheets and importance
CMS memos of interest
Rewrote all the discharge planning standards
Hospital deficiencies
Reporting to the PI system
Insulin pens and safe injection practices
New interpretive guidelines
Luer misconnections
Organ Procurement Organization Contracts
Discharge planning standards
CMS complaint manual
Humidity in the OR
Federal regulation changes
Final interpretive guidelines and changes
Most current CMS Manual
Many recent changes to 9 tag numbers
Starts at Tag 385 and goes to tag 413
Nursing Services and 24 hours services
Third revised worksheet
RN on duty
Integrated with hospital wide PI program
Organizational chart and nursing
Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) responsibilities
CNO requirements
CNO approval of nursing policies
Staffing and delivery of care
24 hour nursing services and supervision
Valid license for nurses and verification
RN to evaluate to care of all patients
Nursing care plans
Changes to the plan of care
Agency nurse requirements
Orientation of agency nurses
Medication administration
Order required for all medications
Standards of care and practice to prevent HAI
BUD, compounding sterile preparations (CSP)
Immediate use CSP
Administration one hour rule
Safe injection practices
Standing orders and protocols
Three medications timing changes
Protocols, standing orders, order sets
Tag 405 standards moved to 457
Requirements for complete drug order
Verbal orders and verbal orders changes
Blood transfusions and IV medications changes
Self-administered medications
Speakers
Sue Dill Calloway is a nurse attorney, a medical legal consultant and the past chief learning officer for the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation. She is the immediate past director of Hospital Patient Safety and Risk Management for The Doctors Company. She is currently president of Patient Safety and Health Care Education and Consulting. She was a medical malpractice defense attorney for many years and a past director of risk management for the Ohio Hospital Association. She was in-house legal counsel for a hospital in addition to being the privacy officer and compliance officer.Ms. Calloway has done many educational programs for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers. She has authored over 102 books and numerous articles. She is a frequent speaker and is well known across the country in the area of healthcare law, risk management, and patient safety. She has taught many educational programs and written many articles on compliance with the CMS and Joint Commission restraint standards.
