Patient Safety:            Meeting The Standards Video

This video provides your staff with a comprehensive education tool demonstrating must know elements for successful compliance with the JCAHO Patient Safety Standards.

Your staff will learn:

• Key processes that lead to optimal Patient Safety
• Mandatory JCAHO Patient Safety requirements
• Best compliance practices related to the JCAHO National Patient Safety Goals
• How best to demonstrate compliance with these requirements

Patient Safety:  Meeting the Standards Video and workbooks can be used to train and educate staff, and doubles as a terrific tool for continued education and annual updating!

Included in the Patient Safety:  Meeting the Standards Video and accompanying workbooks:

• Which JCAHO requirements are directly and indirectly related to patient safety
• A listing of the JCAHO’s critical patient safety sub-processes
• A comprehensive description of what your facility must do to achieve compliance with each of the patient safety standards
• Sentinel events and the relationship and impact on patient safety
• JCAHO Sentinel Event Alert Publication Information
• A descriptive overview of rationale for, and compliance with the JCAHO’s National Patient Safety Goals
• The JCAHO National Patient Safety Goals
• JCAHO patient safety standard – criteria for performing a proactive risk assessment of a high-risk process
• Patient rights and responsibilities related to patient safety
• Key components of patient safety
• Patient safety program checklist
• Analysis of risk potential form
• Potential surveyor questions related to patient safety

You will witness actual staff/surveyor discussions and see for yourself exactly what types of patient safety questions will be asked of your staff during the tracer visits to individual departments.

Learn what surveyors expect for compliance in improving your organization’s patient safety performance and reducing risk to patients. This video provides recommendations and shows actual compliance scenarios for meeting all of the patient safety standards.

The workbooks included provide supplemental patient safety information, education and useful tools to help you meet JCAHO compliance, including a patient safety post test to validate education compliance.

Take the worry out of this "hot topic" survey issue. By viewing this video and using the helpful workbook included, you will increase staff knowledge and comfort levels while building survey confidence! Knowing what the surveyors expect to see and hear related to your patient safety program can guarantee accreditation success in this area!