Preparing for the great unknown . . . That's why we're excited to introduce, Unannounced Survey: Frontline Strategies to Prepare Your Organization for Surprise Surveys. In her new book, Missi Halvorsen, RN, BSN best-selling author of Tracer Methodolog delivers practical, hands-on, how-to methods to overcome survey challenges. Using from-the-field examples, personal successes, and lessons learned, she explains how to prepare for unannounced surveys from top to bottom. Best of all, this book zeroes in on how to develop an action plan that trains and prepares staff members to be in "survey mode" everyday not just when there's a knock at the door.

A great resource for your home care and hospice staff. The new 2012 Standards for Home Health, Personal Care and Support Services, and Hospice can help you quickly and easily find the standards and scoring information you need. It puts the latest accreditation requirements, policies, and procedures at your fingertips. It also includes scoring information at every element of performance, including scoring category, criticality, documentation requirement, and Measure of Success. The 2012 Standards for Home Health, Personal Care and Support Services, and Hospice has color-coded tabs, allowing you to find exactly what you need when you need it: The 2012 standards, National Patient Safety Goals, and Accreditation Participation Requirements only for home health, personal care and support services, and hospice organizations Updated accreditation process chapter, which includes new decision categories and the 2012 home care accreditation decision rules, and sentinel events chapter Applicability grids at each standard to identify setting-specific requirements for your home health, personal care and support services, or hospice organization An appendix listing Medicare requirements for hospice This 6 x 9 softcover, spiral-bound book makes a perfect reference guide handy in meetings, for orientation and training, and as a practical overview of the Joint Commission s accreditation requirements for all your staff.

With the constant pressure to ensure Joint Commission standards compliance, training, and continuous survey readiness across all departments of your hospital it is more important than ever to save time. You can wade through countless resources in search of ways to prepare for Joint Commission survey. Or, you can save yourself the trouble and turn to HCPro's best-selling book, the JCAHO Survey Coordinator's Handbook.

Helps you quickly and easily find the standards and scoring information you need. This title puts the accreditation requirements, policies, and procedures at your fingertips and includes scoring information at every element of performance.