The Joint Commission recently released a wrong site surgery prevention tool. Wrong procedure or wrong site surgery is one of the top sentinel events of The Joint Commission. This is why it is important to prevent an embarrassing “never event” and one in which there is no payment for. 

Do not miss this 90 minute webinar where nurse attorney Sue Dill Calloway will discuss The Joint Commission 2010 changes along with the different organizations and their position statements on how to prevent wrong site surgery. Wrong site surgery can be devastating not only for the patient but for the staff and the facility!  

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the current Universal Protocol requirements by The Joint Commission including the requirement to document that a time out was taken.
• Discuss practices that will reduce  the occurrences of wrong-site surgery such as a check off list.
• Explain what should be done when a wrong site surgery or procedure is discovered.

Target Audience:

• Nurse Educators 
• Nurses and Nurse Managers
• Risk Management Professionals 
• Compliance Officers and Hospital Legal Counsel
• Quality Improvement Directors 
• Joint Commission Coordinators 
• Directors of Registration
• Behavioral Health Staff
• Patient Safety Officers
• Surgeons and Operating Department Heads

Level: All Levels

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.

Participation:

Each listener participates in the continuing education activity by listening to the webinar 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.

Recorded: Wednesday, August 24, 2011