AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by The Medication Management Compliance Toolkit
presented on October 16, 2007
The constant changes to MM.4.10 pose a big challenge for hospitals, especially in the ER and radiology areas where it’s difficult to have a pharmacist or licensed independent practitioner review every medication order prior to administration.
The Joint Commission rescinded an interim action to MM.4.10 that affects the review of all medication orders for appropriateness. The change, which eliminates retrospective pharmacy reviews of medications prescribed in the ER, was one of several recent changes made to MM.4.10.
Prepare and educate your staff
Listen to HCPro's audioconference on this critical topic. During this 90-minute program, you'll hear expert speakers address recent and potential changes to MM.4.10 and get their critical tips and advice for improving compliance.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Explain the current Joint Commission expectations for MM.4.10
- Identify what the Joint Commission is likely considering as it develops revised language for this standard
- Formulate practical methods of complying with MM.4.10
- Identify how to perform prospective and retrospective review by pharmacist
- Explain how data may be collected for a quality plan to enhance patient safety and decrease medication errors
- Construct protocols, guidelines, limited non-urgent medication list for area without a prospective pharmacist review
- Identify what process non-pharmacists must perform to review prescriptions when the pharmacy is closed
PROGRAM AGENDA
- Pharmacist review of orders prior to medication administration—MM.4.10
- Emergency department and urgent care settings
- Prospective review
- Retrospective review
- Current status: Physician controlled environment/physician determines urgency
- Medical imaging
- Medication errors in radiology
- Review of contrast orders
- Quality control to prevent retrieval errors
- PACU/anesthesia
- Limited non-urgent medication list in PACU/Anesthesia
- Developing protocol
- Improving patient safety
- Physician controlled environments
- Retrospective review by pharmacists
- Data collection and quality plan
- Measurable outcomes
- Q&A
MEET THE SPEAKERS
John Rosing is the practice director of accreditation and regulatory compliance services at The Greeley Company. He brings more than 25 years of experience in healthcare management to his work with hospitals and healthcare centers. Rosing applies his hospital administration and regulatory expertise to help medical facilities meet accreditation standards and compliance expectations. He has consulted, presented, and authored on a wide range of healthcare management issues and topics, including patient safety, process improvement, clinical and nonclinical operations redesign, Joint Commission accreditation and medication management processes, incorporation of hospital-owned physician practices into the Joint Commission survey process, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services compliance, medical staff structure and function redesign, medical staff credentialing and privileging, medical staff leadership development, reorganization, bylaws development, quality improvement, competency assessment, and allied health practitioner credentialing and privileging.
Thirsa Martinez, PharmD, MPA, COL, MS, started her career as the assistant chief of pharmacy at Fort Campbell, KY. She was deployed with the 101st Airborne Division as the Division Pharmacist and worked closely with the Division Surgeon during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Following various assignments, Martinez served as a clinical pharmacist for nephrology and primary care medicine. She has been the director of various pharmacy-run clinics including a drug therapy monitoring clinic (diabetes, asthma, hypertension, and lipids management) and an anticoagulation clinic.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Pharmacy directors, Joint Commission survey coordinators, patient safety directors and pharmacy directors, risk managers, patient safety officers, nursing, ER physicians
PROGRAM MATERIALS
Program materials are provided with PDF links.
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