Licensing Requirements and Accreditation Affecting Long-Term Care Michael E. Puckett University of Phoenix HCS/443 August 5‚ 2006 Licensing Requirements and Accreditation Affecting Long-Term Care The world of health care is changing from the needs of individuals due to changes in expectations of the health care organizations. One steady component of long-term care is the need for regulation in the industry that serves the public. Regulation is provided in several ways that includes licensing
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Outline the process for developing nursing standards of practice‚ and identify the different entities that might be involved in developing a standard of practice The American Nurses Association (ANA) advances the nursing profession by “facilitating development of the standards of nursing practice‚ promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace‚ projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing‚ and lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on healthcare issues affecting nurses and the public”
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Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) (Caruso‚ 2007). The Joint Commission included managing hand-off communications among its 2009 national patient-safety goals (Trossman‚ 2009). The goals recommend that as part of high quality‚ patient centered care‚ hospitals implement a standardized approach to hand off communications‚ including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions (JCAHO‚ 2009). JACHO states the primary objective of a hand-off
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doctor who would never have a license to practice medicine in this time for all of the laws and professional groups in place to prevent against bad practice of medicine. The first organization what has come into play after this story was made is JCAHO. This stands for Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The key to this organization is to have standards‚ not any kind of standards but superior standards when it comes to healthcare. “JACHO works by having a team of healthcare
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family members when identifying the correct site • Partial pre-operative assessment of the patient • Pressure to reduce the pre-operative preparation time The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has come up with the universal protocol‚ a very helpful tool in preventing wrong site surgeries. The universal protocol includes pre-procedure verification of the surgical site by the surgeon and marking the site‚ verification of the correct site
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Safety Organizations (PSOs)‚ and they determine the safety information that is disclosed pertaining to the patient. Consequently‚ in 1995 the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)‚ was formed to be the surveillance of healthcare quality control. Initially‚ the JCAHO encouraged reporting of sentinel events but it was not a requirement. Hence fore‚ today they have a Sentinel Event Database‚ which healthcare facility can access to perform voluntary reports of sentinel events
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patients do not receive adequate relief. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)‚ has recognized pain as a "major‚ yet largely avoidable‚ public health problem" (JCAHO‚ 1999‚ para. 1) for which the organization has "developed standards that create new expectations for the assessment and management of pain in accredited hospitals and other health care settings" (JCAHO‚ 1999‚ para. 1). These new standards make it essential for healthcare personnel to acquire a better understanding
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broad beliefs about what is or is not appropriate behavior What is Ethical Behavior? What is Ethical Behavior? : Schermerhorn - Chapter 4 5 What is Ethical Behavior? Examples of Values Equality Fairness Honesty Responsibility Harmony JCAHO Standards : JCAHO Standards RI 2.10 The hospital respects the rights of patients: Elements of Performance 2. Each patient has the right to have his or her cultural‚ psychosocial‚ spiritual and personal values‚ beliefs and preferences respected 4. The hospital
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enhanced standards‚ informed by virtue and ethics and utilized by independent bodies (such as the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of HealthCare Organization or JCAHO) during the health care organization accreditation process‚ offer a better alternative than the current retributive approach.” What needs to happen is that JCAHO does not only need to accredit the hospital but provided universal ethical and moral strategies that healthcare professional need to help ease the weight off them in moral
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Since hospitals treat patients who are reimbursed under Medicare‚ they must also meet federal standards‚ and to be accredited‚ they must meet standards of the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). Generally‚ the federal government and JCAHO refer to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) model fire codes‚ including Standards for Health Care Facilities (NFPA 99) and the Life Safety Code (NFPA 101) (WBDG‚ 2010). The American with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies
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