AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by The Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals
presented on December 7, 2007
Simplify your process for complying with The Joint Commission’s medication reconciliation standards. Listen to expert advice and learn how one facility greatly improved its process.
You can implement a straightforward and successful medication reconciliation program, and it can be more manageable than you think. Our speakers tell you how during this 90-minute, intermediate-level audioconference, Medication Reconciliation Update: Must-haves for Joint Commission compliance in 2008.
Our speakers take an in-depth look at a case study where one hospital was able to greatly improve their compliance process by making medication reconciliation a hospital-wide effort—including leadership and outpatient units—to increase compliance and patient care. You’ll hear tips and receive tools you can put to use to educate your team and improve—or recreate—your medication reconciliation program right away!
In addition to the expertise and advice presented, you'll also receive useful tools, including:
- Sample medication reconciliation dashboards, which show how to track compliance over time
- Screenshots from Northwestern’s EHRs (electronic health records) showing how medication reconciliation is documented
While the implementation of a successful medication reconciliation process is a complicated endeavor, many facilities are making it more complex than necessary by concentrating too heavily on meeting Joint Commission guidelines and not on the benefits in the level of patient care.
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AGENDA:
- Medication reconciliation: National Patient Safety Goal
- Elements of Performance
- Scoring
- Joint Commission compliance
- Putting medication reconciliation into simple language: Getting the medication list and understanding the value for patient care
- Case study, Northwestern Memorial Hospital: Strategies for improvement and increasing compliance
- Implementation and evaluation of process: Creating key prompts, analyzing work flow, and reviewing an auditing feedback system
- Northwestern’s “one source of truth” home medication list
- Changes in the admission process
- Correctly updating the medication list at discharge
- Outpatient process improvements: EDTs, same-day surgery, and ambulatory care
- Incorporating medication reconciliation into an electronic process
A question and answer session follows the presentation
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the program, you will be able to:
- Perform measurements for medication reconciliation process improvement, not just standard compliance
- Illustrate how to educate staff to think critically about the medication lists using a multidisciplinary, team approach
- Describe what to incorporate into medication reconciliation documentation tools—for both inpatient and outpatient settings
- Discuss the process and benefits of tracking medication reconciliation on the quality dashboard
- Explain what research shows regarding medication discrepancies and medical errors
- List Joint Commission compliance requirements and methods to achieve them
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Molly McDaniel, PharmD, is a quality leader for patient safety at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. McDaniel has been involved in a research grant supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) looking at medication reconciliation; specifically at how healthcare providers obtain medication histories and risk factors that may lead to inaccurate medication histories and reconciliation failures. She helped lead the design, implementation and education of medication reconciliation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Patricia Pejakovich, RN, BSN, MPA, CPHQ, is a consultant at The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., and brings more than 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.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN
Patient/medical safety officers, risk managers, nurse directors and managers, survey coordinators, quality and performance improvement directors, hospital pharmacist directors and managers, medical staff professionals, hospitalists, and all staff members who administer medication in inpatient and outpatient settings, including interventional radiology and ED/procedural areas; and others that are already familiar with the National Patient Safety Goals and The Joint Commission's medication reconciliation.
NEW PURCHASE OPTION — AUDIO ARCHIVE
In addition to the regular purchase option for HCPro audioconferences&mdash, audio CD, we are pleased to offer a new option, an audio archive. Audio archive allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or audio archive of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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