If your policies and procedures aren’t clear and concise, you could be creating chaos, increasing regulatory risk, risking patient safety, and failing to give frontline healthcare personnel the support they need. Differences between policy expectations and practice are the leading cause of regulatory citations. Most Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and State Agency deficiencies start by quoting hospital policy and then give many examples of how that policy was not followed. Yet, hospitals continue to create needlessly complex, unrealistic, and redundant policies, procedures, and guidelines that do little to direct actual practice or enhance compliance.
November 13 | Policy Simplification | Register
Join this webinar and learn how to create simple, concise, compliant, and safety-focused guidance documents that remove impractical and unnecessary expectations while satisfying all regulatory and accreditation requirements.
Objectives
- Identify overly complex, burdensome policies as a vulnerability for non-compliance.
- Consider changes to guidance documents that satisfy applicable requirements, evidence-based practice, and operational efficiency.
- Establish processes to create simple, concise, compliant, and safety-focused guidance documents that remove impractical and unnecessary expectations while satisfying all regulatory and accreditation requirements.
A 2022 study in the Critical Care Nursing journal states, “the amount of time spent on the EHR is often cited as a contributing factor to burnout and work-related stress in nurses”. On average, 17% of a nurse’s daily work is spent on EHR documentation. The amount of clinical documentation and the undue burden it puts on already stressed nursing staff can be overwhelming at times. But how much of that burden is required? Is there a way to simplify clinical documentation and still meet regulatory requirements? If you find yourself answering the question, “Why do we have to document that,” by responding, “Because Joint Commission requires us to,” then this webinar is for you.
November 14 | EHR Simplification and Documentation | Register
Learn how to simplify documentation as much as possible to both maintain safe practice and compliance. This webinar will focus on prioritized areas that are commonly overburdensome and can be simplified to give nurses time back at the bedside. Join us to learn more about common misperceptions of requirements and self-imposed documentation requirements.
Objectives
- Understanding documentation requirements
- Identifying and prioritizing overly complex EHR builds and expectations
- Focus on: Admission Assessments, Pain, Titrations (block charting), Restraint, Nursing Care Plans, Simple EHR solutions with immediate impact
Our presenter for both webinars will be Cherilyn Ashlock, DNP, RN, NE-BC. Cherilyn Ashlock is an Advisory Consultant with Chartis with more than 22 years of consulting and healthcare experience related to nursing, patient safety and quality, and performance improvement. Her expertise also includes regulatory affairs and hospital governance, clinical program development, policy, research, as well as operations and health system alignment.
