Make survey training fun.
The Joint Commission's unannounced survey process means one thing: you can no longer cram for survey. You now need to spend even more time training your staff so they're always prepared for survey day.
To ensure a state of continuous survey readiness at your organization, we've completely updated our best-selling survey prep guide: Ready, Set, JCAHO!
Now in its third edition, it's the most fun, creative, and engaging way to train staff on vital topics including:
- Patient and system tracers
- The unannounced survey process
- Hot button topics
- And more!
Ready, Set, JCAHO! Third Edition: NEW Questions, Games, and Other Strategies to Prepare Your Staff for Survey can be used as an excellent companion to the previous editions or as a stand-alone guide.
Covers tracer methodology and Joint Commission focus areas.
We dedicate an entirely new section to the tracer methodology. We also cover The Joint Commission's focus and hot button areas, including patient safety, medication management, and infection control.
SAVE TIME—we did the work for you!
No need to wrack your brain trying to develop fun and engaging ways to train your staff. HCPro's Ready, Set! staff once again deliver the most "bang for your buck" with new creative survey prep activities, games, and strategies.
New CD-ROM feature.
Many of the games, tools, and activities in Ready, Set, JCAHO! Third Edition can be tailored to fit your facility's specific needs! Because this "hands-on" survey prep resource is organized both by focus area AND staff level, you can use it to prepare everyone for survey—from your newest employee to the most seasoned, high-level staff member.
Here's what you get:
- Descriptions and examples of TOOLS, GAMES, EVENTS, and other creative ideas to prepare staff for survey in fun and memorable ways.
- A set of QUESTIONS covering key topic areas The Joint Commission emphasized during recent surveys. Like the first two editions, these questions provide hints and examples of compliance and are formatted to use as fast and easy handouts for staff training. This section also includes a new "Top 10 Questions Every Staff Member Should Know" listing!
- Insider TIPS from an experienced accreditation expert on how to pass your survey with flying colors.
- CASE STUDIES and real-life examples of how your peers have successfully prepared for survey day.
Your peers agree, Ready, Set, JCAHO! is an essential staff training resource!
"It gave me ideas that made the teaching of what staff need to know about JCAHO more interesting . . . I even used the JCAHO Jeopardee with the vice presidents and CEO. What a competitive group! (In a new edition) I think that tracer methodology would be an excellent subject . . ."
–Dawn Jacquard, Nursing Director, Bloomington Hospital, Bloomington, Indiana
"Easy to use, convenient organized layout. Made use of the questions in a weekly challenge for a prize. Also used some of the content for unit flyers."
–Jeanne Decosmo, Director of the Learning Center, Carroll Hospital Center, Westminster, MD
"Used the book to get the staff and physicians ready for our last survey . . . We scored 96%! I like the format because I have tremendous time constraints and the book is creative, spot-on in terms of applicability and easy to adapt where appropriate."
–Barbara Bixby, Clinical Risk Manager & Patient Safety Officer, NCH Healthcare System, Naples, FL
Take a look at just a sampling of the questions, games, tools, and strategies you'll find in Ready, Set, JCAHO!
- Fun EVENTS
- JCAHO Carnival
- Hospital of Horrors
- Practice Interviews
- Patient Safety Day
- JCAHO Survivor
- Interactive GAMES
- Patient Safety Poker
- Who Wants to be a JCAHO Expert?
- JCAHO Jeopardee: with lots of sample questions
- Training TOOLS
- Flashcards
- Cartoon
- Intranet Q&A Ideas
- Crossword Puzzle
- JCAHO Newsletter
- JCAHO Prep Booklet
- Poster Ideas
- Word search
Saves you time and money!
This must-have resource is part of HCPro's Ready, Set! series—which includes Ready, Set, JCAHO! and Ready, Set, Patient Safety! It was created to provide you with time-saving and cost-effective staff training strategies, tips, and tools. Use the Ready, Set! series to keep staff training fun, interesting, and focused with varied activities for all levels and types of staff.
It's never too early—or too late—to prepare for your Joint Commission survey. Ready, Set, JCAHO! delivers exactly what the doctor ordered, survey training that is
- Fun!
- Time-saving!
- Cost effective!
Meet the author
Kathryn A. Chamberlain, CPHQ, is a survey coordinator with more than 25 years of healthcare management experience with the North Shore Medical Center in Salem, Massachusetts, a Partners (Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital) affiliate. In that organization, she managed performance improvement, utilization management, and accreditation activities, which culminated in accreditation with commendation. Kathryn provides you with the most practical, up-to-the-minute advice, tools, and strategies that will make your survey prep activities a snap to coordinate.
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