Nightingale Community Hospital Memo To: From: Date: Re: Executive Management‚ Nightingale Community Hospital Brittany Amon‚ Senior Audit Administration September 29‚ 2012 Compliance Status of Nightingale Community Hospital: Information Management The following pages will provide a summary of the current compliance status of Nightingale Community Hospital based on the Information Management Priority Focus Area. From the information provided by Nightingale Community Hospital [the hospital]
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Executive Summary Nightingale Community Hospital prides itself on their values‚ such as safety‚ community‚ teamwork and accountability. Yet‚ we now understand the more has to be done to provide a safer place for our patients. Nationwide‚ hospitals are trying to find innovative ways to provide safer care and less complication for their employees. Establishing and encouraging standard practices within the infrastructure of the hospital will reduce chances of human error. With so many physician
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Western Governors University Joint Commission Compliance Audit Task 2 AFT2 Accreditation Audit By Cricket Besse 055895 Nightingale Community Hospital Sentinel Event Registrar‚ registered child (3 year old patient)‚ obtained insurance card and entered demographics. She was then taken to pre-op where the nurse told mother that once in the OR the surgery would take about 45 minutes and then she would go to recovery. The mother informed the pre-op nurse that once her daughter went
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Nightingale Community Hospital: Patient Tracer Summary Western Governors University Nightingale Community Hospital: Patient Tracer Summary Nightingale Community Hospital utilizes a tracer methodology adapted from The Joint Commission to review patient charts weekly. The tracer method provides a precise appraisal of programs and methods for delivery of care and services. A thorough review of current services will help identify possible deficiencies. Patient 453355 medical record
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The Nightingale Hospital is 13 months away from our next Joint Commission inspection. Although the overall state of compliance for the organization is good‚ there are several areas that have been identified as “Priority Focus Areas” due to a past history of nonconformities. All these areas are related to Information Management and Record of Care‚ Treatment‚ and Services‚ in particular: A utilization of standardized terminology‚ definitions and abbreviations‚ as described in Joint Commission Accreditation
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A1. Status Preparing for The Joint Commission‚ Nightingale Community Hospital reviews areas of compliance and non-compliance. A periodic performance review‚ which is a self-evaluation‚ is utilized by Nightingale Community Hospital‚ to prepare for The Joint Commission. The Joint Commission has eighteen accreditation requirements. (Commission‚ 2013) The periodic performance review found the hospital to be compliant and non- compliant in the following areas: Compliant: Emergency Management
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Quality • www.ahrq.gov Issue #14 March 2004 Hospital Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care Hospitals with low nurse staffing levels tend to have higher rates of poor patient outcomes such as pneumonia‚ shock‚ cardiac arrest‚ and urinary tract infections‚ according to research funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and others. Yet increasing staffing levels is not an easy task. Major factors contributing to lower staffing levels include the needs of today’s higher acuity
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Running Head: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AUDIT 1 Executive Summary Nightingale Community Hospital is preparing for a Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations‚ or JCAHO‚ audit. In preparation of the coming audit‚ Nightingale has released JCAHO’s Priority Focus Areas for the hospital. The priority focus areas outlined are Information Management‚ Medication Management‚ Communication‚ and Infection Control. The area of focus for this assessment will be Information Management
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as compared to that of a typical hospital? A. The hospital focused on this new procedure for treatment of external types of abdominal hernias. Some differentiating features of the Shouldice process were the arranging of abdominal muscles into three distinct layers‚ reinforcing the abdominal wall with six rows of sutures and did not involve any insertion of screen and mesh under the skin. Beyond the surgical procedure‚ it was the service process of the hospital that differentiated it from others
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INDEX 1. Introduction to the functions of management. 2. Introduction of the topic “Staffing”. 3. Staffing process of Ivy Studios. 4. Research and methodology. 5. Bibliography. INTRODUCTION FUNCTIONS OF MANAGEMENT There are five basic functions of management: Planning: Planning is deciding in advance what to do and how to do. It means setting objectives and targets and formulating an action plan to achieve them. It is concerned with both ends and means i.e. what is to be
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