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2008 Accreditation Process Guide eBooks

• 2008 Accreditation Process Guide for Ambulatory Care
• 2008 Accreditation Process Guide for Behavioral Health Care
• 2008 Accreditation Process Guide for Home Care
• 2008 Accreditation Process Guide for Hospitals
• 2008 Accreditation Process Guide for Laboratories
• 2008 Accreditation Process Guide for Long Term Care

Joint Commission International eBooks

• Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Ambulatory Care
• Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for the Care Continuum
• Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Clinical Laboratories
• Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Disease- or Condition-Specific Care
• Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospitals, Third Edition
• Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospitals, Second Edition
• Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Medical Transport Organizations
• Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Primary Care
• Joint Commission International Accreditation Hospital Survey Process Guide

Other Joint Commission Resources eBooks

• Are You Prepared? Hospital Emergency Management Guide
• Cost-Effective Performance Improvement in Hospitals
• Doing More with Less: Lean Thinking and Patient Safety in Health Care
• Effective Processes for Evaluating Physician Competence in International Health Care Organizations
• Emergency Preparedness Hospital Security Readiness Assessment Tool by NHJA
• Environment of Care® Management Plans, Second Edition
• Getting Results: Reliably Communicating and Acting on Critical Test Results
• Infection Control Issues in the Environment of Care
• The Joint Commission's Unannounced Survey Process
• Organizational Ethics
• Overcoming Performance Measurement Challenges for Hospitals
• Patient Safety and Quality with Joint Commission Accreditation: An Introduction for Nursing Graduates
• Protecting Those Who Serve: Health Care Worker Safety
• Staffing: Interpreting and Analyzing Data
• Strategies for Building a Hospitalwide Culture of Safety
• Strengthening Physician and Staff Partnerships
• Tracer Methodology: Tips and Strategies for Continuous Systems Improvement
• Using Human Factors Engineering to Improve Patient Safety

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Developed with J. Christopher Farmer, M.D., a consultant in critical care medicine and professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, this book provides vital information about basic emergency management principles and offers in-depth explanations of strategies for providing safe care, treatment, and services in emergency conditions.

Cost-Effective Performance Improvement in Hospitals describes a comprehensive model that teams can use today to select, measure, and incorporate changes to improve care, treatment, and services. Case studies are based on actual experiences in successfully improving performance while at the same time using resources judiciously and cost-effectively. Each chapter provides helpful tips, strategies, tools, and case studies for hospitals concerned with cost effective performance improvement.

This book serves as an overview of lean thinking, breaking down the concepts of the lean thinking process, and offering practical information and advice based on what has worked for other health care organizations. It is aimed at all health care organization types.

Reliably Communicating and Acting on Critical Test Results collects the articles from the February 2005 Journal and adds case studies on what hospitals, medical centers, and outpatient practices are doing to improve communication of critical test results.

Infection Control Issues in the Environment of Care addresses the unique infection control issues within the environment of care for all health care settings using Joint Commission standards, nationally-recognized guidelines, and federal requirements as a foundation.

• Descriptions and examples of pre-survey activities, including the Periodic Performance Review and the Priority Focus Process
• Updated and revised details on survey activities
• Sample tracers to address hospital priority focus areas and clinical/service groups
• Mock tracer questions
• Sample survey agendas
• Which hospital standards apply to which priority focus areas
• A self-assessment checklist

The new 2008 Accreditation Process Guide for Hospitals takes you step-by-step through the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the accreditation process. It includes sample survey agendas and the most accurate information about the new unannounced surveys. In addition, this easy-to-use, spiral-bound book includes the handy compliance-assessment checklist that helps you get the most out of your PPR, note corrective actions needed, and identify areas in which measures of success are necessary. Tips on writing plans of action and measures of success and conducting sample tracers to address PFAs and clinical/service groups are also provided. Features include descriptions and examples of pre-survey activities, including the Periodic Performance Review and the Priority Focus Process; updated and revised details on survey activities; sample tracers to address hospital priority focus areas and clinical/service groups; mock tracer questions; sample survey agendas; which hospital standards apply to which priority focus areas; and a self-assessment checklist.

Important improvements to this edition include the following:

• All standards are now core standards. In these revised standards, all standards are considered equal in importance and weight toward achieving accreditation.
• Stronger requirements in many areas. Credentialing and privileging standards for health care professionals and a new requirement for a root cause analyses after sentinel events are among the enhancements.
• International Patient Safety Goals. These 6 patient-centric goals are now evaluated as part of the JCI on-site survey.
• New and significantly updated chapters. “Anesthesia and Surgical Care,” and “Medication Management and Use,” new chapters migrated from “Care of Patients”; and “Management of Communication and Information,” which shifted communications standards from “Access to Care and Continuity of Care” to its own section in what was previously the “Management of Information” chapter.

Please note: As of January 1, 2008, the standards in the Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospitals, 2nd edition will no longer be current and this e-book will no longer be available for purchase. However, purchasers of the 1-year subscription for their version of this e-book prior to that date will still be able to access the publication online until their subscription expires. For the most current JCI hospital standards, please click here.

This electronic version of the manual, Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospitals, 2nd edition, provides health care organizations with all the information they need to pursue or maintain performance improvement and accreditation with Joint Commission International (JCI). JCI is a recognized global leader in health care accreditation, evaluation, and educational services.

This manual includes JCI’s state-of-the-art standards as welI as accreditation policies and procedures. The standards can be used for accreditation preparation or as a performance checklist.

Available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish

• Advice and tips on how to prepare for survey
• Explanation of the who, what, where and how of each survey activity
• Checklists of survey preparation activities
• Sample questions to help your hospital prepare for staff interviews, and
• The application for survey

Available in the following language: English

Available in the following language: English

This easy-to-use manual, written in easy-to-understand language, includes standards and scoring information as well as accreditation policies and procedures.

These international consensus standards were developed and reviewed by an international task force and were tested in mock surveys in international health care organizations. These new standards meet a growing demand for an effective evaluation of patient care services other than acute care and consider country-specific conditions and cultural issues.

Available in the following languages: Czech, English, and Italian

Available in the following languages: Czech and English

Available in the following language: English

Available in the following languages: Czech and English

• Patient-Centered Services
• The Organization and Delivery of Services
• Improvement in Quality and Safety

This same interest has sparked in the healthcare industry. While healthcare ethicists have been examining organizational ethics issues for decades, there has perhaps been more press devoted to clinical ethics issues in the past twenty years. There is a recognized need for facilities to continuously examine the organizational components of their ethical culture. Healthcare organizations must question if all aspects of business are being conducted with methods that demonstrate honesty, integrity, and reflect the ethical goals of the organization.

This ebook will assist organizations in this task by:

• Defining components of organizational ethics
• Defining characteristics of an ethical organization
• Identifying processes for education and dissemination of information
• Demonstrating how organizational ethics can influence the quality of care delivery

It is the intent that by breaking down some of the components of organizational ethics, an organization can truly begin to understand how “behaving ethically” can be something on the minds of all employees, and such behavior can be the backbone which dictates how the institution is structured and functions. This will have the end result of increased patient and staff satisfaction, resulting in an increase in the quality of care delivered.

The importance of the nurse's role in ensuring patient safety and delivering quality care is emphasized through examples of key nursing activities, such as:

• Influencing improved design of care processes
• Creating a non-punitive environment to enhance error reporting
• Participating in error reporting and analysis

The importance of the nurses' position is further elaborated by discussing their leadership role in complying with the necessary accreditation standards for Medication Management, Infection Control, Pain Management, and Environment of Care.

Patient Safety and Quality with Joint Commission Accreditation: An Introduction for Nursing Graduates arms the nursing graduate with the information he or she needs to confidently enter the health care profession as a registered nurse.