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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
There were multiple changes to the hospital nursing chapter of the conditions of participation (CoPs) in 2021. However, many of those changes are still awaiting interpretive guidelines and survey procedures. In late 2021, CMS made changes to the section in response to the COVID-19 pandemic for “hospital at home” facilities.
CMS CoP Nursing Standards for Hospitals 2022 Update will discuss the often-cited areas of the CoP manual involving nursing care: plans of care, staffing, policy changes, when an RN is required in an outpatient department, documentation, supervision, nursing leadership, cms verbal orders, antibiotic stewardship program requirement and more.
CMS has issued deficiency reports which include which are the most problematic standards for hospitals. The nursing services have been cited over 6,300 times according to the most recent report. CMS CoP Nursing Standards for Hospitals 2022 is a must-attend program for any chief nursing officer, clinical nurse or nurse supervisor, or person interested in ensuring compliance with the CMS hospital conditions of participation in nursing.
Other changes in the past to this section include timing of medications, standing orders, soft wrist restraints, and restraint reporting, plan of care, cms verbal orders, blood transfusions, IV medication, compounding, BUD, antibiotic stewardship program, safe injection practices, self-administration of medications and drug orders.
Every hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement must follow the CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and it must be followed for all patients. This program will cover the nursing services section in the hospital CoP manual. Facilities with Deemed Status accredited by the Joint Commission, Health Care Facility Accreditation Program, CIHQ, and DNV Healthcare must also follow these regulations.
CMS CoP Nursing Standards for Hospitals 2022 will also reference other important sections that all nurses should be aware of that are outside the nursing services section. Such sections include the revised discharge planning standards, medication standards, revised history and physicals, visitation, restraint and seclusion and grievances, and privacy and confidentiality. CMS issued the privacy and confidentiality memo, safe injection practices memo, humidity memo, and insulin pen memo.
Learning Objectives
Agenda
Other important sections nurses should be aware of:
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.