Health care and Hospital Management (AFT_2_TASK_2)

AFT_2_TASK_2 Accreditation Audit (AFT2) Task 2 C A1. EVENT DESCRIPTION THIS IS A REVIEW OF A SENTINEL EVENT THAT OCCURRED AT NIGHTINGALE AMBULATORY SURGERY UNIT­. A 3-YEAR-OLD FEMALE WAS BROUGHT IN BY HER MOTHER FOR SURGERY. UPON ARRIVAL, THE CHILD WAS REGISTERED, AND ALL CONSENTS WERE OBTAINED FROM THE CHILD’S MOTHER. NURSING PERFORMED PRE-OP DUTIES AND WHEN THE CHILD WAS HANDED OFF TO THE CIRCULATING NURSE FOR SURGERY THE MOTHER INFORMED THE PRE-OP NURSE THAT SHE WOULD BE BAC...

AFT2 Accreditation Audit Case Study - Task 1 Accreditation Audit Accreditation Audit Case Study - Task 1 Joint Commission conducted a survey last week of Nightengale Hospital’s compliance regarding Information Management policies and protocols. During the survey auditors have identified non-compliance within the following areas:  Use of Standardized Terminology, definitions, abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, and dose designations.  Components of a Complete Medical Record are def...

The chart above identifies which Joint Commission standards Nightingale Hospital is complaint and not in compliance with. Some standards Nightingale is not in compliance with may affect one department or multiple. Each department will need to review standards they aren’t in compliance with and create a plan of action to fix them. After this plan of action is implemented Nightingale will be in compliance with Joint Commission standards. Noncompliant Trends Nightingale Hospital has several defic...

Service Line Development AMT2 Task 3 Trends The current trend that will be affecting Trinity is the state and national levels to reduce payments to hospitals. As expressed from board members and multiple physicians, they are concerned about how this will affect physicians. Since this is a state and national level then there are a lot of other hospitals including Trinity that will be affected by this change. The next trend for the healthcare industry is the Medicaid expansion. As said from Edit...