Nightingale is accredited with Joint Commission accreditation. Along with this accreditation comes the responsibility to comply with the standards that Joint Commission has detailed in their requirements. Joint Commission’s role is to assist healthcare organizations to measure, assess, and improve their performance. These standards concentrate on the facility’s safety, quality service, and patient care. Joint Commission has laid out a strategic and detailed set of expectations that hospitals and other healthcare organizations can use to ensure they are in compliance with health laws.
Mario Ambrico Unit 46 Perform routine electrocardiograph (ECG) procedures 1.1 Summer arise the current legislation, national guidelines, polices, protocols and good practice guidelines for performing routine electrocardiograph procedures. 1.2 Explain own responsibilities and accountability in relation to current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice guidelines. Own responsibilities and accountability when carrying out the process of doing an electrocardiograph procedure. This procedure should be done in the way we were trained and only done if the relevant training has been taken . 1.3 Explain the duty to report any acts or omissions in care that could be detrimental.
* Verify that an order for the transfusion exists. * Conduct a thorough physical assessment of the patient (including vital signs) to help identify later changes. * Document your findings. Confirm that the patient has given informed consent. * Teach the patient about the procedures associated risks and benefits, what to expect during the transfusion, signs and symptoms of a reaction, and when and how to call for assistance.
This will ensure you are up to date with all aspects of handling medication. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) This supports the health and safety at work ect Act by ensuring that employees adhere to all regulations which protect their employees, themselves and others from hazardous substances, including medication. The Medicines Act 1968 This manages the use of medicines from the supply to the way in which medicines are handled within all care settings. The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 This ensures that controlled drugs are kept safe in order to reduce the risks associated with theft and abuse. This act imposes additional storage, prescribing and disposal regulations for controlled substances.
Some of the potential issues that the new patient management system must take into consideration include security, the accuracy and speed of the network, and compliance like HIPAA. The system will include sensitive information like patient information, medical diagnosis, treatment plans, and the results which will be used to schedule appointments. The patient management systems software, hardware, and networks design should take all of these things into consideration and should have functions incorporated into them that will offer all of those
The plan must address who is to perform specific duties during the recovery period. These people must be selected very carefully, alternates identified, and plans should be documented to train and test those individuals in the performance of their duties. * Review and update the current contingency plan for the hospital to ensure that it is flexible in order to respond to any type of internal or external disaster including nuclear, biological, and chemical terrorist threats. Update the current contingency plan to ensure that it outlines a chain of task delegation and communication to be activated by the upper level medical services supervisor on-site following notification from the administrator on call that emergency procedures are to be implemented (see Table A). * Conduct a business impact analysis to identify and prioritize critical systems, business processes, and components.
It allows patients and medical administrators to smoothly monitor all processes in a clinical or hospital setting. The system also allows for the better management of a healthcare setting to deliver information and treatment at a more efficient and effective rate by making sure that all needs of the patient is fulfilled. In order to implement the electronic health records systems there are certain hardware specifications that need to be met for the appropriate and effective implementation of the system. Therefore, it is first required that on become familiar with the basic terms and functions that are related to the electronic hardware. It is first necessary that the workstations in which the EHR system will be integrated is properly assessed and maintained.
2 Understand current legislation and agreed ways of working when moving and positioning individuals 2.1 Management of health and safety at work regulation – This introduced the requirements for risk assessment when moving and position individuals. Risks must be assessed acted
Details of the relationship between the unit and relevant national standards This unit is linked to CHS19. Support of the unit by a sector or other appropriate body This unit is endorsed by Skills for Care and Development. Assessment This unit must be assessed in accordance with Skills for Care and Development's QCF Assessment Principles. Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4 and 5 must be assessed in a real work environment. Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for England (4222-31) 297 Unit 4222-335 Undertake physiological measurements (HSC 3052) Assessment Criteria Outcome 1 Understand relevant legislation, policy and good practice for undertaking physiological measurements The learner can: 1. describe current legislation, national guidelines, organisational policies and protocols affecting work practice.
In today’s world health care organizations are using electronic medical records and other computerized applications to handle medical operations and procedures. The most important objective of the security rule is to safeguard the privacy of a person’s health information. At the same time that information needs to be used by health care professionals to provide quality care for patients. Covered entities need to be able to use this information to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care (Summary of the HIPAA security rule, n.d.). The Security rule guard all identifiable medical information a covered entity receives, creates, transmits or maintains in electronic form (Summary of the HIPAA security rule, n.d.).