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AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD

Sponsored by Medication Reconciliation:Practical Strategies and Tools for JCAHO Compliance

presented on October 10, 2006

Medication reconciliation is a vital element of patient safety, but it’s also a trouble spot for many facilities.

And the changes for 2007 promise to make compliance even more challenging. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has revamped its requirements for this National Patient Safety Goal, giving it more of a standards format, including specific elements of performance. Hospitals must make sure their implementation efforts include every phase of patient care—from admission to transfer to discharge.

You need all the help you can get to decipher the changes and train staff to comply.

Listen to HCPro's audioconference, Medication Reconciliation Update: Must-haves for JCAHO compliance in 2007. During this 90-minute program, our experienced speakers (including a former JCAHO executive director) discuss best practices for complying with this goal with a special focus on the recently announced changes. Gain an in-depth understanding of the updated medication reconciliation requirements and how they will affect your internal processes. You will learn how to accurately assess your hospital's compliance with this goal, how to focus on areas that need improvement, and how to hone your medication reconciliation in all departments.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this audioconference, participants will be able to:

1. Recognize what the 2007 safety goal changes are and their impact on scoring during your accreditation survey
2. Accurately assess your hospital's compliance with the goal
3. Identify challenges and barriers to effective medication reconciliation and strategies that can be used to increase compliance
4. Applyfield-tested techniques to hone medication reconciliation in all departments
5. Explain benefits of prospective data collection versus retrospective
6. Describe potential patient and/or medication-related risk factors that may lead to medication reconciliation failures

TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AGENDA

1. Overview
2. What’s new for 2007: Changes in the Medication Reconciliation Patient Safety Goal
   1. Elements of performance
   2. Scoring changes
      • NPSG Requirement 8A (two elements of performance)
      • NPSG Requirement 8B (three elements of performance)
3. Observations of problems in hospitals around country
1. Redundancy of forms and duplication of efforts
4. Strategies for increasing medication reconciliation compliance
1. Implementation and evaluation of process
2. Northwestern’s “One source of truth” home medication list in patient medical record
3. Admission
4. Transfer
5. Discharge
   • Working around therapeutic substitutions
   • Effective follow-up after discharge
6. Incorporating medication reconciliation into an electronic process
5. Summary comments and Q&A

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Kurt A. Patton, MS, Principal, Patton Healthcare Consulting, LLC. Patton served as executive director of Accreditation Services at the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) for more than seven years. In this role, he worked with all types of accredited organizations seeking to be re-surveyed, and new organizations seeking to become accredited. He managed the post-survey process for all accreditation programs, which includes issuance of accreditation decisions and reports as well as monitoring the organizational database for intra-cycle monitoring events.

Molly R. McDaniel, PharmD, is a Research Pharmacist Coordinator on the Patient Safety Team in the Division of Quality and Operations at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. McDaniel completed her Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2003 from Drake University and her pharmacy practice residency in 2004 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She is currently part of a team of researchers supported by an AHRQ grant looking at medication reconciliation, specifically how healthcare providers obtain medication histories and risk factors that may lead to inaccurate medication histories and reconciliation failures.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Patient safety officers, risk managers, nurse managers, survey coordinators, quality and performance improvement directors, hospital pharmacists, medical staff professionals, and hospitalists.

BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIAL PACKET!

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and tools, and these practical, bonus take-aways to help aid you in the medication reconciliation process:

• Data collection form for prospective evaluations upon admission of medication reconciliation
• Screen shots of electronic medication reconciliation forms

These materials will be provided with PDF links.

Purchase a tape or CD of the program and listen when you can. It's a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.

Publisher :  HCPro, Inc
 
Product Types :

• Audioconferences

Departments :

• Other Quality/Patient Safety Products

ORDER CLASS: Q_10-10-2006
SOURCE CODE: EHCM