Nursing Peer Review
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Nursing Peer Review
Tools and Techniques to Promote Nursing Accountability
Seminar On-demand
The next best thing to attending the live seminar!
Product Description:
This electronic, on-demand recording of the HCPro seminar Nursing Peer Review— presented on September 23, 2009—includes the highlights of the live program in a convenient, cost-effective format.
Order your MP3 recording of this timely, practical program and listen to our panel of experts explore the major benefits of establishing a nursing peer review program to help you:
- Improve patient outcomes
- Evaluate nurse performance
- Promote nursing accountability
Your recording includes the following sessions:
Session 1:
Why incident-based peer review?
- Defining peer review
- Different types of peer review
- What it is and what it is not (e.g., not an annual evaluation)
- Driving change in healthcare quality
- Who owns accountability for nursing quality?
- How does peer review fit within the context of the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®
- Benefits, rationale, and goal of peer review
Session 2:
Nursing peer review: The five-step process
- Step 1: Design a formal structure/committee to support the peer review process
- Informal versus formal structure; where does peer review fit?
- Forming a committee and defining roles and responsibilities
- Incorporating peer review process into existing structure
- Tips on running an effective committee
- Legal considerations
- Immunity, confidentiality, and protecting information
- Peer review protection laws
- Confidentiality guidelines
- Security of information
- Set and communicate expectations
- The nurse performance model and competency framework
- Indicator types: review, rule, and rate
- Step 2: Establish the nursing peer review process
- Formulating and writing policy
- Peer review timelines
- How are cases identified?
- Creating a case screening tool
- Step 3: Educate all stakeholders
- Identifying the target audience: Who are the stakeholders?
- Training committee reviewers
- Eliminating fear and obtaining buy-in
- Step 4: Implement the nursing peer review process
- The components of the scoring tool
- Conducting chart review on selected cases
- Implementing the program
- Step 5: Track and trend your data
- Measuring results and benchmarking data
Who Should Listen?
- Chief nursing executives
- Directors of nursing
- VPs of patient care services
- Administrators
- Nurse managers
- Staff development/education managers
- Quality professionals
- Risk management professionals
About the faculty:
Laura Harrington is a senior nurse consultant for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. She is an experienced health care manager with extensive experience in the area of Performance Improvement, Risk, Case Management and Credentialing. Previously, she served as the Chief Quality & Safety Officer for a 230 physician ambulatory group practice in Houston & San Antonio and was responsible for creating, reviewing, analyzing and monitoring quality, risk and utilization initiatives. She combines her clinical and administrative experience to reengineer processes to achieve optimum improvements for efficiency, to decrease overhead while enhancing the customer's satisfaction.
Anne Jadwin, RN, MSN, AOCN, CNA, is the director of nursing at Fox Chase Cancer in Philadelphia. Fox Chase was designated as the first ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® facility in the state of Pennsylvania and the first specialty hospital in the U.S. to earn that distinction. Her responsibilities include oversight of inpatient hospital operations; supervision of the case management department, the clinical nurse specialists, and the nursing supervisors; and recruitment and retention initiatives for the department of nursing. She has been a registered nurse for 29 years, of which she has spent 25 years in oncology.
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