Environment of Care: Hospital Essentials

Premier Date:
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - LIVE
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM CT
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM MT
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM PT

Additional Airdates
(all times Eastern)

Fri, Mar 4, 2011:  10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Tue, Mar 29, 2011:  1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Wed, Apr 6, 2011:  12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Thu, Apr 21, 2011:  3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Joint Commission Resources Quality and Safety Network
Program Description:
Providing a safe, functional, and effective environment of care (EC) is crucial to achieving good patient care outcomes. With the increased emphasis of safety in healthcare, the responsibilities of direct care staff and environment of care staff overlap, requiring that all staff must work together to improve the safety of healthcare delivery.  Leaders must create an organization-wide culture that fosters safe delivery of care, and managers at all levels must extend and reinforce that culture within their departments and services. In addition, the Environment of Care chapter in The Joint Commission’s Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH) focuses on how everyone in the organization should participate in activities that make the care environment safe.  

Through in-depth expert panel discussion and featured case studies, this 60-minute live activity - broadcast directly from The Joint Commission’s headquarters in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois - analyzes the staff’s role in environment of care issues, emphasizing a back-to-basics approach. The most common compliance issues related to life safety are also identified.


Target Audience
This activity is relevant to all organization staff, medical staff, volunteers, and contract staff, particularly those responsible for life safety-related activities, including safety officers and committees, engineering staff, department managers and supervisors, performance improvement staff, training and education staff, and risk managers.

Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant should be able to:
  • Identify staff responsibilities that relate to the environment of care, including documentation.
  • Gain an understanding of the Environment of Care standards and intents and strategies for achieving compliance.
  • Discuss ways to streamline processes and procedures to avoid duplication of efforts and encourage cooperation between direct care staff and EC staff.

Presenters:

Michael Chisholm, CPE, CHFM
Associate Director
Standards Interpretation Group
The Joint Commission

Anne M. Guglielmo, CFPS, LEED A.P.
Associate Director
Standards Interpretation Group
The Joint Commission

George Mills, MBA, FASHE, CEM, CHFM, CHSP
Senior Engineer
Standards Interpretation Group
The Joint Commission

Accreditation Information:
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
The Joint Commission Resources is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Joint Commission Resources designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation
Joint Commission Resources is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Joint Commission Resources designates this continuing nursing education activity for 1 contact hour. Accreditation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation refers to recognition of educational activities and does not imply approval or endorsement of any product.

National Association for Healthcare Quality
This activity has been approved by the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) for 1.0 Certified Professional Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) CE credits.

American College of Healthcare Executives
Joint Commission Resources is authorized to award 1 hour of pre-approved Category II (non-ACHE) continuing education credit for this program toward advancement, or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Participants in this program wishing to have the continuing education hours applied toward Category II credit should list their attendance when applying for advancement or recertification in ACHE.

Full attendance at every session is a prerequisite for receiving full continuing education credits. If a participant needs to leave early, their continuing education credits will need to be reduced.

Successful completion of this CE activity includes the following:

  • View the presentation.
  • Read the accompanying Resource Guide.
  • Complete the Post Test and Evaluation Form online.
  • A CE certificate/statement of credit can be printed online following successful completion of the Post Test and the Evaluation Form.

Available via Satellite and Online!
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The JCRQSN program is a monthly series of video conference training sessions produced by
Joint Commission Resources  (JCR) in partnership with The Wellness Network.  The Wellness Network is
the distributor of the series and has no influence on the content. 

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