Pain Management: Simplify compliance with Joint Commission standards (Audio Conference)

AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE, CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE

presented on September 20, 2007

Is your facility’s pain management strategy too complicated?
Now more than ever, it is critical that your staff properly assess, document, and treat patients’ pain while in your care. Although pain management is the leader in Joint Commission non-compliance issues, this audio can help to simplify pain management compliance through re-education and effective forms, policies and procedures.

Get practical advice and simple tools you can use immediately.
Listen to HCPro and expert speakers Patricia Pejakovich, RN, BSN, MPA, CPHQ and Sallie M. Gatlin, CPHQ, Director, Quality Resource Management, Pampa Regional Medical Center on September 20 for Pain Management: Save time and simplify compliance. This in-depth 90-minute audioconference will discuss policies, tools, case studies, and Joint Commission compliance. You will be provided with hands-on examples that you can put to work in your facility right away!

TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA

1. Why pain management continues to be a top non-compliance issue with the Joint Commission
2. Pain management’s link to high HCAHPS scores
3. What are hospitals doing wrong?
1. Writing policies that are too rigid and unrealistic
2. Staff can’t understand, or comply with complicated policies
3. Keep it simple, stay compliant
4. Case Study from Pampa Regional Medical Center
1. Why our hospital struggled
2. What we did about it
3. Tools to comply
5. Solutions and tools to comply

1. Getting leadership buy-in
2. Education
3. Documentation
4. Re-assessment

Question & Answer Session

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After this program, participants will know how to:
      1. Understand the reasoning for continued RFI’s for The Joint Commission
      2. Identify what is required in the standards
      3. Identify consistent roadblocks to compliance
      4. Implement tools and policies to help you succeed
      5. Describe how to simplify your processes
      6. Determine the appropriate use of tools depending on the patient population

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Patricia Pejakovich, RN, BSN, MPA, CPHQ. Ms. Pejakovich, a consultant at The Greeley Company, brings over 25 years of management experience to her work with hospitals and medical facilities. Pejakovich applies leadership and nursing experiences to help hospitals and medical staffs develop solutions to their toughest problems. She has a particular expertise in accreditation standards and regulatory compliance. Pejakovich has consulted on utilization management, credentialing, data management and design, hospital and medical staff quality improvement (QI) processes, forms, documents, tools and reports to support improvement activities, infection control, organizational readiness for survey, policy and procedure development, and employee orientation and competency assessments.

Sallie M. Gatlin, CPHQ, Director, Quality Resource Management, Pampa Regional Medical Center. Sallie M. Gatlin entered the quality field in November 1983, one month after DRGs hit the nation. Since 1988 she has directed multi-function quality departments in five hospital systems in Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana. Currently Ms. Gatlin directs the quality department at a 115 bed rural hospital in Pampa, Texas which is one of four hospitals in a brand new for-profit healthcare system called Signature Hospital Corporation. Effective 1 Aug 06 she was appointed to serve as the corporate quality consultant in addition to her hospital responsibilities. Since 1988 she has been continuously certified as a professional in healthcare quality and currently Ms. Gatlin is a candidate for the Masters in Healthcare Administration with an expected completion date of fall 2007.

PROGRAM MATERIALS

Program materials are provided with PDF links.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Quality improvement officers, patient safety officers, risk managers, survey coordinators, nursing, ED personnel


NEW PARTICIPATION OPTION

In addition to the regular participation options for HCPro audioconferences, audio tape or audio CD, we are pleased to offer a new option: audio archive. An audio archive allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience on your computer or MP3 player.

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