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Throughout a recent Joint Commission survey at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, CA, surveyors zeroed in on two key areas: staff knowledge and patient care, reports Catherine M. Fay, RN, director of performance improvement.
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Health care practitioners now have had a couple years of experience in doing failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) projects. Now that weve got some know-how in how to do a FMEA, it is clear that these projects arent easy.
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Theres no denying that paying close attention to performance measures can improve patient safety at your organization, but heres another powerful motivator: Your core measure data will have a wider audience this summer when the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations begins making its Quality Reports publicly available.
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If you still are doing last-minute ramp-up preparation for Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations surveys, youre going to have big problems with the Shared Visions New Pathways process, warns Lynne Adams, CPHQ, director of quality at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD.
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Do nurses at your facility complain they are overworked and understaffed? If so, you may have a bigger problem than retention on your hands compelling new evidence suggests poor nursing conditions put patients in danger.
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Here are the 15 Nursing-Sensitive Performance Measures endorsed by the Washington, DC-based National Quality Forum.
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According to recent data from the Joint Com-mission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, compliance with the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) is more than 94%, with one notable exception: the requirement to standardize abbreviations, which falls to 85% compliance.
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In light of a recent Government Accounting Office report that found that the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations failed to detect deficiencies in the Medicare Conditions of Participation (COPs) during surveys, quality managers need to take extra care to ensure their organizations are compliant with, says Patrice L. Spath, BA, RHIT, a health care quality specialist with Brown-Spath & Associates in Forest Grove, OR.
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When the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations introduced its periodic performance review (PPR) tool in November 2003, there was a single important criticism from the organizations that completed it: They wanted the tool to be available to them all the time, not just once every three years.
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Work stress and dissatisfaction with the work environment may hasten the retirement of aging nurses, according to a study by the Center for American Nurses, an Austin, TX-based affiliate of the American Nurses Association.