The Joint Commission Survey Coordinator's Handbook, Tenth Edition
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You can wade through countless resources in search of ways to prepare for Joint Commission survey. Or you can save yourself the trouble and turn to HCPro’s best-selling book, The Joint Commission Survey Coordinator’s Handbook.
Now in its tenth edition, this fully updated guide for 2009 is your all-in-one resource for Joint Commission standards compliance and survey preparation. Packed with expert advice, best practices, and sample tools, it saves you the time-intensive task of researching and managing Joint Commission accreditation activities on your own.
Survey coordinators and accreditation professionals are busier than ever. In addition to many other job responsibilities, you’re under constant pressure to ensure Joint Commission standards compliance, training, and continuous survey readiness across all departments of your hospital.
Put The Handbook’s practical ideas to use right away in your everyday operations. With real-world tips and strategies, it’ll help keep you and your staff organized and continuously survey-ready.
Overwhelmed by vague or complex standards language?
The Joint Commission Survey Coordinator’s Handbook interprets the Joint Commission’s standards in practical, straightforward language that removes the guesswork for you. We tell you what you need to know about the standards, and what you need to do to comply.
Whether you’re a seasoned coordinator or new to the job, The Joint Commission Survey Coordinator’s Handbook provides to-the-point survey knowledge—in plain English—that has been tested and approved by organizations just like yours.
Includes FRE sample tools and forms on CD!
When you purchase your copy of The Joint Commission Survey Coordinator’s Handbook, you also receive a FREE companion CD-ROM. You’ll find all of the sample forms, charts, checklists, and policies from the book in one convenient spot.
These compliance tools have been tested for success, so why stress over creating tools you’re not sure will work? We’ve done the work for you. You get electronic Word documents you can customize and use right away at no extra cost!
Let our experts guide you to survey success
Thanks to countless years of in-the-field experience and a firm grasp on the fast-changing world of Joint Commission accreditation, our author—Patricia Pejakovich RN, BSN, MPA, CPHQ—provides everything you need to maintain standards compliance and survey readiness in 2009 and beyond.
With more than 200 pages full of proven compliance tips and strategies, this book may never leave your desk!
Learn what’s new, what’s different, and what’s coming up The Joint Commission Survey Coordinator’s Handbook, Tenth Edition has been completely updated to reflect new changes in the 2009 Joint Commission standards. Our experts even peek ahead at to keep you in line with where the Joint Commission may be headed.
What’s NEW in the Tenth Edition?
- Life Safety Code for the non-engineer: This year, we have included a chapter, written by Brad Keyes, CHSP, making the Life Safety Code
accessible to survey coordinators and others without an engineering background. - Tips for post-survey survival: We have added advice for exactly what needs to be done in the days and months following your survey—from how
to respond to RFIs to maintaining continuous readiness and keep up with standards changes throughout the year. - New survey readiness tools: We’ve updated our survey readiness chapter to include on CD more than a dozen tools to help prepare for your survey.
Meet the Author
Patricia Pejakovich, RN, BSN, MPA, CPHQ, is a consultant for The Greeley Company, specializing in quality and performance improvement, accreditation, utilization management, credentialing, clinical pathway development, and data management and design. Ms. Pejakovich has more than 30 years of experience in nursing and healthcare, and for more than 20 years has specialized in quality and performance improvement. She has expertise in assessing performance improvement processes, reviewing accreditation standards, formulating and implementing action plans to address improvement, promoting integration of accreditation standards, personnel management, developing policies, procedures, forms, documents, tools, and reports to support improvement activities, and much more.
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