Although there were no new NPSGs for 2011, The Joint Commission revised four elements of performance. These include anticoagulation, central line-associated infections, surgery site infections, and surgical site infections. This approach marks an effort to move away from prescriptive requirements to evidence-based practice and accepted clinical practices.

Now is a good time to ensure your organization is in compliance with the revised NPSGs during this 90-minute webinar. Nurse attorney Sue Dill Calloway will examine the revised NPSGs for 2011 as well as why the infection control standards and the NPSGs on infection control issues are very important to hospitals and healthcare facilities.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the changes to the universal protocol including how hospitals will need to conform.
• Discuss the impact of the infection control goals including the cost effectiveness of complying with the multi-drug resistant organism prevention.

Target Audience:

• Joint Commission Coordinator
• Quality Improvement staff
• Chief Nursing Officer 
• Patient Safety Officer
• Nurse Educator
• Infection Preventionist
• Pharmacist
• OR nurse manager
• Chief Medical Officer
• Nurse managers
• Policy and procedure team
• Compliance officers
• Risk managers
• Hospital legal counsel
• Staff nurses

Meet Your Expert:


Sue Dill Calloway is a nurse attorney and medical-legal consultant. She has done many educational programs for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers. She has spoken internationally on patient safety, risk management, legal, regulatory, and CMS and Joint Commission issues. She has authored over a thousand articles and a hundred books including a book on the Compliance Guide to the Joint Commission, CMS Patient Rights Standards and a book on 2009 Joint Commission Leadership and many books on nursing law and nursing law and ethics.

Her associate degree is from Central Ohio Technical College and Ohio State University. Her BA, BSN in Nursing, MSN in nursing (summa cum laude) and JD degree (law degree with honors) are from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

Continuing Education:

Participation:

Each listener participates in the continuing education activity by listening to the audio conference and completing the online post test and evaluation.

Accreditation Statement:

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

This activity has been approved for 1.5 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 1.5 Contact Hours.

Sponsor:

The sponsor of this educational activity is AHC Media.

The information provided in AHC Media audio conferences does not, and is not intended to constitute medical diagnoses or legal advice. Individual tracer methodology outcomes cannot be guaranteed. Opinions, references and links provided by our speakers are provided for your convenience and do not represent our endorsement of such opinions, products or services.

Recorded: Wednesday, January 26, 2011