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Hand-off Communication: Practical Strategies and Tools for JCAHO Compliance
Kurt Patton

Softbound Book + bonus CD-ROM
ISBN 157839788X
978-1578397884
HCPro Inc
May 2006
Price: $149.00

 

This guide gives you instructions on how to implement the "Hand-off Communication" National Patient Safety Goal - directly from one of the JCAHO experts who helped to design it!

Hand-Off Communication explains the JCAHO’s requirements and offers clear advice for compliance. The book explores many of the problems and challenges you face during the hand-off process, developing a policy and implementing it, and identifies the resources you’ll need to meet the surveyor scrutiny.

Hand-Off Communication highlights specific staff roles and techniques for staff training, while identifying the barriers that must be overcome in order to apply the standard effectively. Filled with practical strategies, case studies and tools, this useful guide and companion CD-ROM provide everything you need to understand how to comply with JCAHO’s National Patient Safety Goal #2E, including:

  • Sample policies and forms that can be adapted to your facility.

  • Peer case studies on successful hand-off process implementation.

  • Answers to many of your frequently-asked questions.

  • Suggestions for training staff and answering surveyor questions.

  • Using the tracer methodology to monitor effectiveness.

  • Direct insight into the JCAHO National Patient Safety Goal expectations and how to ensure compliance.

You’ll get the tools you need to create your facility’s hand-off process. Learn to develop a policy, how to implement it, and how to monitor its effectiveness. Through FAQs, case studies, and helpful tools, Hand-Off Communication provides a comprehensive resource for hand-off methods and strategies. From cutting-edge methodologies like SBAR (situation-background-analysis-response) to time-saving tips, this timely how-to book offers a variety of compliance guidance for any size organization on this critical National Patient Safety Goal.

 

You will meet the JCAHO’s Hand-Off Communication Goal. The Joint Commission’s new National Patient Safety Goal reads simply: "Implement a standardized approach to 'hand off' communications, including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions." That leaves you to figure out what constitutes a hand-off, how to design a standardized approach, and how to implement it. Hand-offs have emerged as hot-button patient safety issues for JCAHO-accredited healthcare organizations. In a perfect world, medical information moves with the patient, so caregivers can stay informed at every turn. Although the goal is for a seamless transition, the hand-off from one caregiver to another, one unit to another, one shift to another, patient care can often be disrupted due to:

  • interruptions

  • lack of clarity with the process

  • non-standardized technique

  • incomplete information.

Be survey ready. If your organization has questions about the hand-off communication process or doesn’t know where to start in developing a standardized approach, this book provides all needed answers. Now, you can train your staff to communicate clearly and completely during every patient hand-off. In Hand-Off Communication: Practical Strategies and Tools for JCAHO Compliance, author Kurt Patton, former Executive Director of Accreditation Services for the Joint Commission on Accreditation Organization (JCAHO), addresses common communication challenges you face with the kind of guidance only a former JCAHO accreditation specialist can provide. Who should read this book?

  • JCAHO survey coordinators

  • QI/PI director and professionals

  • Risk managers

  • Nurse managers

  • Chief nursing officers

  • Patient safety officers

  • Physicians/Medical staff

  • Patient care directors

Tools, resources and guidance are provided under the following chapter headings:

  • The hand-off communication goal

  • Problems and challenges in various settings

  • Resources

  • How hand-off communication is surveyed

  • Design and implementation

  • Two leadership standards that can foil efforts, one that can help

  • Policy development

  • Staff training

  • Monitoring effectiveness

  • Barriers to overcome

  • Related articles

  • Frequently asked questions

  • Case studies and field tools

Kurt Patton is the principal of Patton Healthcare Consulting, LLC. Patton served as Executive Director of Accreditation Services at the JCAHO for more than seven years until his retirement in December 2005. In this role, he worked with all types of accredited organizations seeking to be resurveyed, and new organizations seeking to become accredited.

Softbound Book + bonus CD-ROM
ISBN 157839788X
HCPro Inc
May 2006
Price: $149.00

 

This guide gives you instructions on how to implement the "Hand-off Communication" National Patient Safety Goal - from one of the experts who helped to design it!

With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its clients assistance and expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety.

(information from the publisher)

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