Transcript JCAHO Jeopardy - Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Department of

JCAHO Jeopardy
Kelly D. Young, MD, MS
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
JCAHO
BASICS
PATIENT
SAFETY
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WORKPLACE
DOCUMENTATION
POTPOURRI
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JCAHO Basics $100
What does JCAHO
stand for?
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Hint: It’s not “Julie Comes And Hangs Out”
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Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations
AKA “Yes, we can close your hospital and make
you seek new residencies”
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During the JCAHO survey, the
surveyors will talk primarily to:
A) The hospital administrators
B) The doctors and nurses
C) The patients
D) The LA Times
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B) YOU!
That’s why you’re
playing this game,
right?
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What is “tracer
methodology”?
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Surveyors analyze a hospital’s
systems by following individual
patients through their
hospitalization, evaluating
multiple care units,
departments, and services
rendered to the patient.
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What is HIPAA? Name
one way protected health
information is kept
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private in your
department.
NOT HIPPO!
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HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act
States that PHI may only be used for purposes of
treatment, payment, healthcare operations
Shredder or blue HIPAA trashcan for HIPAA
sensitive documents
Codes for patient chief complaints
DON’T use “5150” or “OD” on the board
Don’t discuss patients in hallways or elevators
Keep curtains closed and don’t let patients
stare at the board
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What is ORYX?
Bonus $100: name one
core measure of ORYX
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ORYX is an initiative that requires hospitals
to collect and submit electronically data
each quarter
Heart failure
– Discharge instructions: activity, diet, follow-up,
medications, symptoms worsening, weight
monitoring
– LV function assessment
– ACE inhibitor for LV systolic dysfunction
– Adult smoking cessation advice / counseling
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Pneumonia
– Adult initial antibiotic within 4 hrs
– Median time to first antibiotic dose (goal 240
minutes)
– Adult blood culture before first antibiotic IF blood
culture performed at all
– Pneumococcal vaccination
– Adult smoking cessation advice/counseling
– Adult oxygenation assessment
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Pregnancy and related conditions
– VBAC, inpatient neonatal mortality, 3rd & 4th lacs
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Name one of the 2007
National Patient Safety
Goals
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Improve accuracy of patient identification
– Improve use of at least 2 identifiers in patient identification
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Improve effectiveness of communication among
caregivers
Improve safety of using medications
Reduce risk of health-care associated infections
Accurately & completely reconcile medications across
continuum of care
Reduce risk of patient harm resulting from falls
Encourage patients’ active involvement in their own
care as a patient safety strategy
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Name one way you reduce
the risk of health-care
associated infections in your
department
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Handwashing with soap and water
before AND after each patient contact
– Even if you used gloves
– Wash vigorously for 15 seconds
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Alcohol-based hand rubs may be used
if there is no visible soiling
Use of artificial or long fingernails is
prohibited
LATHER UP!
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How do you improve the
accuracy of patient
identification in your
department?
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• I use TWO (2) (dos) identifiers when
providing treatment, administering
medications, collecting specimens
• Patient’s name
• Patient’s MRUN
• NOT patient’s room number or chief
complaint (e.g. the lac in room 6)
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How are you improving
the effectiveness of
communication between
caregivers?
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Telephone orders are read back
Verbal orders are repeated back
Critical lab values and other test results are read
back
We use standardized abbreviations and avoid
certain unapproved dangerous abbreviations
Preliminary radiology reads in
logbook or on barcoded sheet –
Overread by radiologist and we
are notified of any disagreements
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Name 3 of the unapproved
abbreviations
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U or u (unit)
IU (international
unit)
Ug (microgram)
1.0 (no terminal
zeros)
.5 (always use a
leading zero –
“always lead, never
follow”))
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X3d (for 3 days or
for 3 doses)
TIW (three times
weekly)
qD or qoD (every
day, daily, or every
other day)
MS, MSO4, MgSO4
(morphine sulfate or
magnesium sulfate)
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Where are the fire
extinguishers in the PED?
BONUS:
Where’s the oxygen
shutoff valves in case
of a fire?
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1) Next to the nurses’ lounge as you go
back toward the IR rooms
2) Opposite the white board with patient
names
3) Oxygen shutoff valves
Between rooms 3 & 4 for Rooms 3-8
In hallway on the way to AED waiting
room for back I-R rooms
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What color “code” would
you call if you had a violent
patient? Who would come?
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Code Green
Crisis Response Team
responds
Does NOT include police
officer
ED staff are still responsible
for the patient, and should
assist in restraint if necessary
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What do the RACE and PASS
mnemonics stand for when
there is a fire?
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Remove patients
and others
Alarm
Contain the fire
(close doors)
Extinguish the fire
when it is safe to
do so
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Pull the pin
Aim the nozzle at
the base of the fire
Squeeze the handle
Sweep the nozzle
from side to side
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What should you do in
the event of a hazardous
material spill?*
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* Material more hazardous than
cafeteria food, but less hazardous
than anthrax
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Rinse exposure with water
Post warning signs
Cordon off area
Consult Material Safety Data Sheet
(MSDS) or call Hazardous Material
Safety Office
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What are code pink, code
white, code orange, code
gray, and code triage?
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Code pink: infant / child abduction
– The number afterwards refers to the age
of the child, e.g. Code pink 3
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Code white: pediatric code blue
Code gray: bomb threat
Code orange: hazardous material or
radiation spill / exposure
Code triage: disaster
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How do you document in
your procedure note that
you confirmed the correct
identity of the patient, and
the correct site of the
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procedure?
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Document that a “time out”
was done (check box on
procedure note area of 253
form)
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How would you write the
order for 100 mg of Motrin
to be given to a 10 kg
child PO?*
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* Answer is NOT
“with a pen”
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Motrin 100 mg = 10
mg/kg PO now
Must put mg/kg
(Date and time order, of
course)
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What’s wrong with this
order?
Motrin 600 mg PO q 6-8
hours prn pain (standard
adult dose)
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No range orders allowed
(No range in doses, no range
in time intervals)
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Which is acceptable?
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C
Signature
Last name legibly spelled out
Degree (MD, RN, PNP, etc.)
Identification number
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What’s the “fifth vital sign”
that we document on ALL
patients, and where do we
document it?
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PAIN score
PAIN score
PAIN score (am I
getting through?)
Pre-printed pain
scales on 1st AND
3rd page of 253s
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GOALS
Pain med w/in 30min
Reassess w/in 30min of
IV/IM pain med, w/in
60min of PO
Pain score < 4 at d/c or
pain med for home
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True of False:
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A minor sibling may translate for
the parent if the minor is 13 years
old or older, clearly fluent in both
languages, and the parent and
minor consent to using the minor
as an interpreter
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So VERY VERY False!
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Parent
“El bebe tiene mucho fiebre, hasta
ciento siete, y no come nada,
nunca, en todo su vida, (esos
Cheetos son la primera comida de
todo su vida), y tiene fiebre por
dos o tres meses, y le duele todo
su cuerpo, y tiene ronchas y grippe
y tos y nausea y diarrea…”
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Sibling Interpreter
“Tiene fiebre?”
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“Yes”
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Does Harbor have a
mission?
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It’s not “To get our
residents more sleep
and more money.”
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Mission: to provide high quality,
cost-effective, patient-centered
care through leadership in medical
practice, education and research.
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What quality performance
data are collected in your
area, and how are you
involved?
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Residents perform peer review of
PED charts for pain assessment
and management. The data are
collated and shared on a quarterly
basis, and individual residents also
receive a report of how they
performed.
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Dr. X is starting his shift in the PED. He walks
down the hall, Starbucks in hand, and waves
“hi” to the nurses and clerk. He rounds the
corner, going through the propped open door
to stand in front of the board. He notes that
there are 2 patients with the same initials on
the board. He dumps his empty coffee cup in
the trash, sets down his trusty Harriet Lane
Handbook on the counter, and picks up a
chart. Where’s the JCAHO violation?
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Only special fire doors may
remain open. Doors may not
be propped open (including
the 2 doors on either side of
the PED board).
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A two-parter:
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1) How do you know a piece of
equipment (e.g. defibrillator,
ultrasound) is okay to use?
2) What does the pink tubing around
the IV pole on the code cart mean?
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Check on the equipment for a dated
sticker that it has been serviced by
mechanical.
Pink signifies a “combination cart”
which has supplies for both pediatric
and adult codes.