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Speaker |
Laura A Dixon |
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Industry |
Healthcare |
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Speciality |
Nursing |
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Available |
All Days |
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Duration |
120 Minutes |
Description
This program will cover the CMS hospital CoP standards for surgery, anesthesia, and PACU. Every hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid must follow these standards and they must be followed for all patients. This program will cover some of the important CMS memos that discuss medication management, IV, and safe opioid use. This will cover the changes to H&P that went into effect in November 2019 and February 2020. Some of the changes include the options for hospitals to elect to do an assessment on healthy outpatients undergoing surgery or a procedure instead of an H&P.
This program will go over the number of reported CMS deficiencies and types received by hospitals. This has many important issues such as informed consent, H&Ps, safe opioid use, safe injection practices, compounding, and beyond use dates (BUDs).
This program will discuss the many standards required by the surgery department and anesthesia including required policies. Hospitals will need to make sure their policies and procedures reflect these requirements.
This program will cover the current CMS guidelines, including the current interpretive guidelines regarding pre-anesthesia evaluations, post-anesthesia evaluation, and anesthesia services. Hospitals are required to have many policies including one on specific clinic situations involving anesthesia or analgesia. This includes interpretive guidelines on moderate sedation and deep sedation. It impacts moderate and deep sedation done in other places like the emergency department and GI lab and patients who have ECTs.
The history and physical and informed consent form must be on the chart before surgery except in an emergency. An exception is made for young healthy outpatients if hospitals implement policies and follow the requirements.
A study found that 66% of the time the consent was missing which resulted in a delay of 10% of surgical procedures. This costs the average hospital almost $600,000 a year. What surgical equipment is required? Come learn the answers to these questions and many more.
Learning Objectives
Outline
Surgery and PACU
Anesthesia
Who Should Attend
(BS, JD, RN, CPHRM)
Laura A. Dixon recently served as the Regional Director of Risk Management and Patient Safety for Kaiser Permanente Colorado where she provided consultation and resources to clinical staff. Prior to joining Kaiser, she served as the Director, of Facility Patient Safety and Risk Management and Operations for COPIC from 2014 to 2020. In her role, Ms. Dixon provided patient safety and risk management consultation and training to facilities, practitioners, and staff in multiple states. Such services included the creation of presentations on risk management topics, assessment of healthcare facilities; and development of programs and compilation of reference materials that complement physician-oriented products.
Prior to joining COPIC, she served as the Director, of the Western Region, Patient Safety and Risk Management for The Doctors Company, Napa, California. In this capacity, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation to the physicians and staff in the western United States. Ms. Dixon’s legal experience includes medical malpractice insurance defense and representation of nurses before the Colorado Board of Nursing.
Ms. Dixon has more than twenty years of clinical experience in acute care facilities, including critical care, coronary care, peri-operative services, and pain management.
As a registered nurse and attorney, Laura holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Regis University, RECEP of Denver, a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Drake University College of Law, Des Moines, Iowa, and a Registered Nurse Diploma from Saint Luke’s School Professional Nursing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is licensed to practice law in Colorado and California.