JCAHO
Joint Commission Accreditation of Health Care Organizations
What is JCAHO?
List the 7 rights of medication administration.
What is Right: patient, drug, dose, route, time, documentation and refusal?
SBAR stands for this.
What is Situation, Background, Assessment and Reccomendation?
Provides proof of your work and care that has been provided to a patient.
What is nursing documentation?
Anytime an individual is expressing any sort of dissatisfaction with out services.
What is a Grievance?
Located in SharePoint or at nurses station
These are the locations of Infection Control Plans, Policies and Procedures.
What is SharePoint and Policy and Procedure manual?
Number of times the nurse should check the medication being administered against the MAR.
What is 3 times?
These are the essential parts of a medication order.
What is name of medication, strength, dosage, frequency, route of administration?
Bonus points for duration of therapy and indication of use.
This is how often a comprehensive set of resident assessments must be done. (e.g. Braden, AIMS, Fall risk, BIMS, etc.)
What is at least every 90 days or with a significant change?
Name 2 methods of hand hygiene
What is soap/water and alcohol based solution?
This outlines your job responsibilities.
What is job description?
This is given at the request of the patient of when the nurse observes the need.
When you want to communicate orders/interventions to all care team members it must be added to this area of the chart in order for everyone to see it.
What is the Kardex?
The primary purpose of progress notes is
What is to document the care provided to resident and their response to care?
Where can you access LTC related trainings and education?
What is Relias, Lippincott Manual, PCC education modules?
A printed binder with all the Safety Data Sheets of all materials and chemicals used at Parkside.
This is what a nurse should do if a patient refuses medication.
What is educate the patient, document the refusal and notify MD?
Medication orders from the hospital should be checked at least this many times to ensure accuracy.
What is at least two times?
Bonus points for naming who is responsible for med reconciliation.
This type of documentation can lead to errors or outdated information being included in resident chart.
What is copy and pasting?
This is how often care plans should be updated to reflect resident's care and condition.
What is immediately?
How to respond to a JCAHO surveyor.
What is listen, stay calm and think carefully before answering?
A PRN medication must be documented in the MAR this often.
What is every single time the medication or treatment is administered?
Each facility has a list of these that are approved for orders or when charting.
What are abbreviations and terms?
This information must be included in progress notes when documenting a resident fall.
What is time, location of fall, witnessed or unwitnessed, resident's condition before and after fall, interventions, notifications to family/physician?
What is the interdisciplinary team?