Reducing Nursing Documentation: Put a Two-Form Solution into Action

Sponsored by: Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals

Presented on Thursday, January 20, 2011

Streamline nursing documentation at your facility

Implement a "two-form" solution for paper or electronic documentation that will put the nurses back at the bedside while fully complying with Joint Commission, CMS, and state expectations. Expert healthcare consultants Bud Pate, REHS, and Lisa Eddy, RN, CPHQ, help you increase compliance, improve communication among healthcare staff, promote patient safety, and boost staff, physician, and patient satisfaction. Our experts will share success stories of how implementing this solution has worked in facilities.

BENEFITS:

• Cut back on unnecessary documentation by implementing a two-form solution to nursing documentation
• Increase nurse and patient satisfaction by giving caregivers more time at the bedside
• Comply with all regulatory requirements in a more efficient manner

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this Webcast, you will be able to:

• Identify common compliance challenges that have led to the current inefficient documentation processes
• Construct a process that will lead to simpler, more compliant nursing documentation
• Explain the two-form solution to nursing documentation
• Demonstrate compliant documentation to external regulators

TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA

• How nursing documentation has become inefficient
  • Excessive forms
  • Check boxes
  • Structured documentation
• Introducing the two-form solution
  • Transforming the shift assessment into a one-stop, easy process that meets all regulatory expectations for:
    • Care planning
    • Assessment
    • Reassessment
    • Provision of care
    • Patient family education
    • Pain
    • Restraint
    • Falls
  • Returning to the two-sentence professional nursing note to communicate essential information
  • Tweaking existing electronic documentation systems
• Overcoming common challenges
  • Watching out for frequent pitfalls
  • Implementing the concept with existing computerized nursing documentation systems
  • Succeeding in spreading critical thinking
• Success Stories
  • Implementation examples
  • How facilities successfully reduced documentation
  • Make your facility survey ready
• Question and answer session

BONUS TOOLS

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 shift assessment tool
• A list of the most frequently cited compliance challenges
• Sample two-sentence professional nursing notes
  

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Bud Pate, REHS, is the vice president for content and development for 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.

Lisa Eddy, RN, CPHQ, is the senior consultant for The Greeley Company and brings more than 20 years of experience in Joint Commission, CMS, HFAP, and NCQA accreditation and certification. Her background in nursing administration, quality, and risk management allows her to apply real-world healthcare knowledge to the challenges of meeting regulatory requirements. She specializes in preparing organizations for accreditation and implementing solution-based, continuous accreditation readiness programs.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Accreditation professionals, survey coordinators, patient safety professionals, quality improvement officers, risk managers, nurse managers, and staff nurses

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