Current Tip
Joint Commission Requirements for the Peer Review Process: Part 1
Date: April 29th 2008
ProPell Tips Archive
First Impressions
Date: April 29th 2008
Pain Assessment
Date: April 22nd 2008
Helping Your Patients to Understand
Date: April 16th 2008
Eight Steps to Policy and Procedure Development
Date: April 2nd 2008
Follow a sequence of compilation, review, and organization.
Medication Orders: Surveyors Look Closely
Date: March 25th 2008
Challenging elements of performance.
Universal Protocol
Date: March 19th 2008
Critical issues!
Challenging Joint Commission Standards and Patient Safety Goals
Date: March 12th 2008
Most frequently non-compliant.
Managing Environmental Safety Risks
Date: March 5th 2008
What to consider when conducting a proactive risk assessment.
Patient Flow Tracer - Changes to the Joint Commission Survey Process-Part Two
Date: February 26th 2008
How to prepare!
Changes to the Joint Commission Survey Process-Part One
Date: February 20th 2008
Surveyor Document Review: Are you ready?
Medical Staff Bylaws and Rules and Regulations TJC Medical Staff Standard 1.20 - Part Three
Date: February 12th 2008
Major issues with implementation!
Medical Staff Bylaws and Rules and Regulations TJC Medical Staff Standard 1.20-Part Two
Date: February 5th 2008
Bylaws versus Rules and Regulations?
TJC Medical Staff Standard 1.20
Date: January 30th 2008
Get started with new requirements.
The Great Coastal Gale: A Home Health Challenge
Date: January 22nd 2008
Lessons learned about emergency management!
Tornado in the Northwest
Date: January 16th 2008
Surveyor questions about managing a disaster.
Violence in Hospitals
Date: January 9th 2008
How to minimize the incidence…
2008 RFI Thresholds
Date: January 2nd 2008
What’s changed?
Vaccine Storage
Date: December 12th 2007
Thousands of doses of vaccines are thrown out each year!
Information Overload
Date: December 4th 2007
We all have more than we can handle. And it just keeps coming.
Care Conferences
Date: November 27th 2007
Are they a valuable use of time and resources?
Giving Thanks
Date: November 20th 2007
Are you thankful for your job?
Step Back!
Date: November 13th 2007
Sometimes in order to move forward, we need to step back.
The Beauty of Brevity
Date: November 7th 2007
Saying less is wiser!
Joint Commission’s New Leadership Standards for 2009–Part Four
Date: October 31st 2007
Operations: What do you need to do?
Joint Commission’s New Leadership Standards for 2009–Part Three
Date: October 24th 2007
Culture and System Performance: What do you need to do?
Joint Commission’s New Leadership Standards for 2009–Part Two
Date: October 17th 2007
Relationships: What do you need to do?
Joint Commission’s New Leadership Standards for 2009–Part One
Date: October 9th 2007
Structure: What do you need to do?
Emergency Management Planning
Date: October 1st 2007
Sustaining services for 96 hours!
Demonstrating Your Commitment to Patient Safety
Date: September 25th 2007
Structure for Patient Safety Rounds!
Talking with the Surveyors
Date: September 17th 2007
Ease your staffs concerns!
Building Good Habits: Part Two
Date: September 5th 2007
Staying compliant with common issues in your work environment.
Building Good Habits and Skills: Part One
Date: August 28th 2007
Repetition is the Mother of Skill
Policies and Procedures - Medical Staff and Nursing
Date: August 21st 2007
Joint Commission required policies and procedures!
Policies and Procedures - Environment of Care and Human Resources
Date: August 21st 2007
Joint Commission’s Required Policies and Procedures ~ Get Them In Writing!
Date: August 14th 2007
Joint Commission required policies and procedures!
Medication Management Policies and Procedures Get Them In Writing!
Date: August 8th 2007
Joint Commission required policies and procedures!
Get It In Writing #2: Provision of Care. Treatment and Services
Date: July 31st 2007
Joint Commission required policies and procedures!
Get It In Writing!
Date: July 24th 2007
Joint Commission required policies and procedures!
Debriefing During Your Survey
Date: July 17th 2007
How do you do it during your survey?
Good Grief, Debrief!
Date: July 10th 2007
What do you do after the survey?
Improve Recognition and Response to Changes in a Patient's Condition
Date: July 3rd 2007
New Patient Safety Goal!
Along Comes Another…
Date: June 26th 2007
New National Patient Safety Goals!
Annual Risk Analysis
Date: June 19th 2007
Transmission and acquisition of infectious agents
URGENT UPDATE ON STANDARD MM.4.10
Date: June 12th 2007
Exceptions apply to EDs only!
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
Date: June 5th 2007
The surveyors have arrived!
Tissue Storage and Issuance
Date: May 29th 2007
Do you have the right processes in place?
Timeframes for the Electronic SOC Submission
Date: May 22nd 2007
When should you submit your SOC to Joint Commission?
It’s a Croc!
Date: May 16th 2007
Risk of body fluid exposure?
And the Beat Goes On….
Date: May 8th 2007
Pharmacist review of non-urgent medications
Create Your Network!
Date: May 1st 2007
Don’t be a victim, plan ahead!
Medication Use in the Emergency Department
Date: April 24th 2007
New expectations for Medication Reconciliation!
Medication Reconciliation: Who Else Needs to Comply?
Date: April 17th 2007
New expectations for Medication Reconciliation!
Medication Reconciliation in Ambulatory Care
Date: April 10th 2007
New expectations for Medication Reconciliation!
Accidental Biting
Date: April 3rd 2007
A list of potential surveyor bites…
Update your Team!
Date: March 27th 2007
New changes happen all the time!
Oops!
Date: March 20th 2007
Administering medications without a physicians order?
How Much is Too Much?
Date: March 13th 2007
If it takes this many pages to explain Joint Commission requirements….
Control: It’s a Beautiful Thing!
Date: March 6th 2007
What can you control about Joint Commission surveys?
Competency Assessments for Physicians
Date: February 27th 2007
Competency of physicians to perform waived tests.
Have You Become Desensitized to Standards Compliance Failures?
Date: February 15th 2007
Get a new perspective!
Professional Practice Evaluation
Date: February 6th 2007
Monitor practitioner performance!
Deaths Related to Use of Restraint or Seclusion-New CMS Requirements!
Date: January 30th 2007
Reports to CMS!
When the Pharmacy is Closed
Date: January 23rd 2007
Limited, approved set of medications that are stored outside the pharmacy!
Emergency Management Drills
Date: January 16th 2007
Monitoring your performance!
Organ Donation
Date: January 9th 2007
Revised Requirements!
Unannounced Surveys
Date: January 2nd 2007
Are you ready?
Contracted Services
Date: December 26th 2006
Monitor each contactor’s performance!
Emergency Management
Date: December 19th 2006
Tracer for evaluating compliance with Emergency Management standards!
Medication Management
Date: December 12th 2006
New written policies and procedures!
Hand Offs
Date: December 5th 2006
Evaluate methods of handoff communication!
Orientation
Date: November 28th 2006
Determine the key elements of orientation for new staff members!
Influenza Vaccinations
Date: November 14th 2006
Evaluate your vaccination rates annually!
ProPell Newsletter Archive
Inside the Hearts and Minds of Your Survey Team
Watch Out for the Snapper Jack!
Date: November 6th 2006
Drilling Down on Life Safety Issues
An Issue with Tissue
Date: September 7th 2006
Meeting Tissue Management Standards
Don’t Open the Kimono!*
Date: July 7th 2006
Preparing Staff Members for Surveys
Continuous Survey Readiness Resources
Medical Staff: More Areas of Focus
Date: May 17th 2006
Compliance: Are You Ready for Zero Tolerance?
Date: April 12th 2006
Dream Tracer # 2
Date: March 15th 2006
Dream Tracer # 1
Date: February 15th 2006
Leaders: How Do You Know…
Date: January 18th 2006
Periodic Performance Review (PPR) - To Do or Not To Do?
Date: November 15th 2005
System Tracer: Infection Control - More Information on the Tracer Methodology
Date: September 10th 2005
System Tracer: Use of Data, Moving Forward - More Information on the Tracer Methodology
Date: July 14th 2005
Using the Medical Record During Patient Tracers
Date: May 11th 2005
System Tracer: Use of Data, Moving Forward - More Information on Tracer Methodology
Date: March 12th 2005
Moving Forward - Propeller After the Survey
Date: January 15th 2005
Moving Forward - Understanding Joint Commission's Priority Focus
Date: November 17th 2004
Moving Forward - More Information on the Tracer Methodology
Date: September 15th 2004
Learning about Joint Commission's New Survey Process Tracer Methodology
Date: July 14th 2004
Continuous Standards Compliance
Date: May 12th 2004
Continuous Survey Readiness II
Date: March 16th 2004