Offered Through Partnership with Georgia Hospital Association
Acute Care Hospital CoPs Series: Part 3 Nursing and Pharmacy
The fee for each session is $200/member and $250/nonmember. If you register for all five sessions of either the Critical Access Hospital CoPs series or the Acute Care Hospital CoPs series, you will get the fifth session of the respective series free! Contact Cynthia Grinston at [email protected] for assistance in registering for the full series to ensure you receive the discounted offer.
Please note our new pricing! To support social distancing and remote work, a single registration provides unlimited lines for all employees and trustees of your hospital or system, including a link to view the recording. Please register just one person from your facility and have that person share the access information with others who wish to participate.
Not sure if you’ll be able to make the live session? Everyone who registers will receive a link to the recording of the webinar to view at your convenience at no additional charge.
Objectives:
• Describe that medications must be given timely and within one of three blocks of time
• Recall that all protocols should be approved by the Medical Staff and an order entered into the medical record and signed off
• Recall that there are many pharmacy policies required by CMS
• Recall that a nursing care plan must be in writing, started soon after admission and maintained in the medical record
• Recall that the hospital must have a safe opioid policy approved by the MEC and staff must be educated on the policy
Nursing Services
• Final changes
• Nurse at bedside
• Approval of infection preventionist
• Duties of the Director of nursing (CNO)
• Medication administration and safe opioid use
• Safe injection practices and compounding
• Staffing
• Policies and procedures
• Nursing care plan
• Staff competency
• Preparation and administration of drugs
• Self-administration of medication
• IV and blood transfusions
• Reporting medication errors and ADEs
• Three Timing Rules of medication
• Orders, protocols, standing orders, order sets
• IV medication and blood transfusions
• Incident reports
Pharmaceutical Services
• Final antibiotic stewardship program requirements
• Revised CDC core for ASP
• BUD, compounding and more
• Administration of medication within the BUD from preparation of CSP and change
• Compounding pharmacy and amended nursing tag 405
• Pharmacy administration and must meet needs of patients
• Standardization of prescribing and communication practices
• Drugs and biological
• High-risk medication
• Definitions of medication errors, ADE and DI
• Notification of physician
• Pharmacy requirements
• Storage and security of medications
• Outdated or mislabeled medications or unusable drugs
• Drug interactions and side effects
• PI requirements for adverse drug events
Who Should Attend?
CEO’s, COO’s, Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Quality
Managers, Consumer Advocate, Nurse Educators, Department directors, All
Nurses, Risk Managers, Hospital Legal Counsel, Compliance Officers, Joint
Commission Liaison, Director of Health Information, Case Managers, Chief
Medical Officer, Nurse Educator, Pharmacists, Social Workers, Discharge
Planners, PI Coordinator, Joint Commission Coordinator, Patient Safety
Officer, Patient Safety Committee, Nurse Managers, Outpatient
Director, Director of Rehab, Dieticians, Infection Control, Medication
Management Team, Anesthesia and Surgery staff, PACU Director, Policy and
Procedures Committee, Respiratory Therapy Director, Director of Radiology,
Infection Preventionist, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Director, and Staff Nurses.
Speaker
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Laura Dixon, BS, JD, RN, CPHRM
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Laura A. Dixon served as the Director, 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 creation of and presentations on risk management topics, assessment of healthcare facilities; and development of programs and compilation of reference materials that complement physician-oriented products.
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. Prior to joining COPIC, she served as the Director, 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 for the western United States.
As a registered nurse and attorney, Laura holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Regis University 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.