Hospitals

Top 5 Publications from JCR

 

Check out these Top 5 favorite hospital publications from JCR:

 
  1. NEW!!  TIPS: Techniques for Improving Patient Safety, 4th Edition
    This new version of TIPS provides great "refreshers" that keep patient safety-related issues top of mind--all in a convenient CD-ROM format. TIPS includes timely topics, including National Patient Safety Goals, Sentinel Event Alerts, and other patient safety information from The Joint Commission. Plus, this revised edition takes a fresh look at improving anticoagulation therapy safety; enhancing recognition and response to a patient's changing condition; and World Health Organization hand hygiene guidelines. Your caregivers and staff can explore vital topics with credible links to recognized Web sites and JCR resources that provide expert assistance in maximizing patient safety.
     
  2. Priority Focus Areas Training Kit: Tools for Educating Your Staff
    Created to help organizations understand The Joint Commission’s Priority Focus Areas and their role in the accreditation process, this is your ready-to-use training toolkit. The curriculum includes a 200-page training guide and an interactive CD-ROM that features quizzes, content outlines, and discussion questions. 

  3. Safety in the Operating Room
    This book covers a multitude of topics including infection control, hand hygiene, sharps safety, and fire safety, all with the intent of maximizing patient safety in the operating room or wherever invasive procedures are performed. Readers will receive tips for improving communication and avoiding distractions in the OR; advice on using the Universal Protocol (preventing wrong-site surgery); strategies to prevent anesthesia awareness, overbooking of operating rooms, and instruments left in patients; advice on preventing burns and fires; and tips on avoiding medication mix-ups.
     
  4. Credentialing and Privileging Your Medical Staff: Examples for Improving Compliance
    This book will help hospitals improve their level of compliance with Joint Commission requirements related to the areas of credentialing, privileging, competency, and focused/ongoing professional practice evaluation. Written for hospital leaders and others interested in Joint Commission compliance, it offers solutions for meeting competency requirements; sample checklists and forms for the credentialing, privileging, competency, and evaluation processes; case studies from hospitals that have successfully implemented effective processes; and more.

  5. Assessing Hospital Staff Competence, 2nd Edition
    Ensuring the competence of individuals who work in all hospital areas is key to providing quality patient care and ensuring patient safety. Hospitals can achieve this goal through competence assessment--a process that involves using performance appraisal, credentials review, and privileging activities to evaluate and verify a person’s capability of meeting job expectations. This book provides in-depth examples of how to best comply with The Joint Commission’s competence assessment standards; tips for common compliance problems; ideas for orientation, continuing education, and training; and forms and checklists that can be tailored to your own organization.