Pain management standards: Don’t find out the hard way your facility isn’t up to speed
September 1, 2002 2 minutes read
Don’t run the risk of losing your accreditation
The first obstacle to overcome in developing a pain management strategy is the misconception that effective pain management is not a problem within your facility or does not need to be a high priority. Health care organizations constantly face pain management challenges, not only in treatment, but also in meeting Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO) standards for the assessment and management of pain. Do you know how your facility measures up?
To help you meet these challenges, American Health Consultants offers the Complying with JCAHO Pain Management Standards: Is Your Facility at Risk? audio conference, scheduled for Oct. 8, from 2:30-3:30 p.m., Eastern time. The facility fee is just $299, which includes free CE for your entire staff.
The conference package also includes, handouts, additional reading, 48-hour replay of the live conference, and a CD recording of the program.
Conference speakers Patrice L. Spath, BA, RHIT, and Michelle H. Pelling, MBA, RN, will teach participants how to:
- Comply with the new JCAHO standards relating to pain medication range orders and titration.
- Integrate JCAHO ’s "Speak Up" campaign into your patient education initiatives. The groundbreaking program encourages patients to become active, involved, and informed participants on the health care team.
- Develop a performance measurement system to evaluate the effectiveness of pain management and continually monitor and improve outcomes.
- Avoid documentation deficiencies and staff complacency that can derail your pain management program.
"Hospitals must have a systemwide standard of care for pain management that will reduce patient suffering from preventable pain," Spath says.
"Failure to meet this standard of care can result in a Type I recommendation from JCAHO. But more important, inadequate pain management will undermine patients’ confidence in the quality of care provided by your health care facility," she says.
A Type I recommendation would require your health care organization to resolve insufficient or unsatisfactory pain management standards compliance in a specified amount of time to maintain your accreditation.
This audio conference is a must for hospital nursing directors and staff nurses, pharmacists, pain management team members, quality directors, risk mangers, accreditation/compliance directors, patient educators, case managers, ED managers/ nurses, same-day surgery managers, and home health managers.
Educational programs for hospital staff at all levels can ensure that sound pain management standards are understood and put into practice throughout your facility.
To register for this audio conference, call customer service at (800) 688-2421 and reference effort code: 62751.
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