Medication Reconciliation
Improve Compliance and Overcome Limited Resources
Product Description:
Webcast on CD or On-Demand
Sponsored by the Association of Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP)
Presented on Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Improve your medication reconciliation practices
Dispel persistent regulatory myths that complicate medication management and walk away with focused, integrated processes to implement at your facility. Join experts Bud Pate, REHS and Dan Ross, PharmD, for this Webcast, as they share strategies to improve your current medication reconciliation practices, what direction the January 2011 Joint Commission standards are headed, and how recent events in California may foreshadow future requirements.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this Webcast you will be able to:- Improve your medication reconciliation process to better serve patient safety and clinical operations
- Develop simple, one-page policies for problem-prone issues such as range orders and pharmacist review
- Understand how California medication regulations can help prepare your facility for the future
- Meet Joint Commission and CMS requirements for review of orders through a common sense, value-driven, "real life" approach
- Develop alternative approaches to medication error reduction
TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA:
- Agency focus on medications
- Learning from the California experience with medication safety
- Current Joint Commission hot spots and trends
- Emerging CMS citation patterns
- Status of medication reconciliation requirements
- Current
- Proposed
- Likely
- How to cope in the meantime
- Successful approaches to problem-prone CMS and Joint Commission requirement
- Pharmacist review of medication orders with special focus on the OR, the ED, and Labor/Delivery
- Labeling of medications taken from the medication room and used in procedure areas
- Range orders
- Multi-dose vials
- Refrigeration
- Security
- Live question and answer session
BONUS MATERIALS
With this Webcast, you'll receive a slide presentation of the program materials and valuable takeaways, which you can use at your facility, including:
- Sample medication safety oversight structure
- Simple and implementable policy statements related to:
- Medication security
- Temperature monitoring
- Range orders
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this Webcast, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials. These materials will be provided approximately four days and again one day prior to the program, via e-mail with PDF links.
SPEAKERS
Bud Pate, REHS, vice president for content and development, The Greeley Company (a division of HCPro, Inc.). Prior to joining The Greeley Company, Pate spent 15 years with system-wide hospital quality and compliance responsibility for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California. Before that, Pate worked for the government, where he was responsible for all acute care licensing and CMS certification activities in Los Angeles County.
Dan Ross, PharmD, president, D Ross Consulting. Ross’ firm provides patient safety, medication safety, pharmacy operations, regulatory compliance, and performance improvement consulting services for hospitals and health systems. His recent work involves performing medication safety assessments at more than 50 hospitals and serving as interim Director of Pharmacy at three facilities.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Accreditation professionals, survey coordinators, patient safety professionals, quality improvement officers, risk managers, nurse managers, nurses, pharmacists.
WEBCAST ON-DEMAND
We are pleased to offer a new option: Webcast on-demand. When you purchase a Webcast on-demand, you will be able to view the program anywhere and any time by logging into your account. It's a perfect training tool for new staff or a refresher for veteran staff.
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