JCAHO- Necessary evil or PITA?

[Whodathunkit]

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If I have to sit through another asinine meeting in preparation for an "unannounced" JCAHO visit, I'm going to gouge my eyes out. And the "mock" visits are even more annoying.

I've never seen people have such a power to get everyone's panties all bunched up as this organization has? Whomever thought of this group and currently sits at the helm as president, must be laughing as he/she turns in to sleep after another day of imposing rules upon rules upon rules upon rules.

Maybe they should make pre-meds take a course in JCAHOism. They'll see it's not all SCRUBS, HOUSE and GRAY'S ANATOMY.

 

[docB]

I'm not a fan of regulation but I think it's reasonable to regulate and inspect hospitals. JCAHO just does a lousy job of it. They nit pick about silly things that don't really help care. They made us put up paper towel dispensers labeled "Wet Spill Clean Up Station" in the hallways but they can't get the hospital to stop boarding admits in the ED. What's the point?

 

[fab4fan]

I'm not a fan of regulation but I think it's reasonable to regulate and inspect hospitals. JCAHO just does a lousy job of it. They nit pick about silly things that don't really help care. They made us put up paper towel dispensers labeled "Wet Spill Clean Up Station" in the hallways but they can't get the hospital to stop boarding admits in the ED. What's the point?

Your post made me laugh, even though it's really not funny. "Wet Spill Clean Up Station"? You're right...meanwhile, pts. are admitted to the hallway in the ED. But God forbid you should have a linen hamper in sight.

 

[sdn1977]

Currently....a necessary evil AND a Pita as well as many, many other things I can't say here!

The paperwork alone requires more employees than are necessary - at least in the pharmacy. But....having an inspector have to sift thru all that nonsense keeps them occupied & most often - our inspector isn't a physician or pharmacist so they don't know what they are looking at.

But - if that same inspector found you didn't make a notation that you will follow gent levels when indicated when the surgeon clearly wrote for 2 doses only - that's a ding right there! Not common sense - just a random ding. Too many & then they're back..........

The only good part about all those meetings is it keeps the administrators busy & out of our hair for a few weeks😛 .

 

[deleted6669]

"The only good part about all those meetings is it keeps the administrators busy & out of our hair for a few weeks"

until some clinician who is working so hard he hasn't had a chance to eat/drink/urinate in 12 hrs has the audacity to drink coffee at his desk while charting( a jcaho violation!!!!!)

 

[fab4fan]

"The only good part about all those meetings is it keeps the administrators busy & out of our hair for a few weeks"

until some clinician who is working so hard he hasn't had a chance to eat/drink/urinate in 12 hrs has the audacity to drink coffee at his desk while charting( a jcaho violation!!!!!)

Come on, emedpa. You've been in this gig for 20 years. You ought to know by now that healthcare providers never have any biological needs. The pt must always come first!

😉

 

[Miami_med]

I had a professor who used to bring cookies around Christmas time to the ED as a token of appreciation for the fact that the guys who worked there had let her bring armies of students through the department with impunity. She was forced to give up this practice a couple of years ago because JCAHO deemed that the mere presence of a cookie in the ED was dangerous. At the very least, it seems that someone needs to regulate the regulators.

 

[flighterdoc]

I had a professor who used to bring cookies around Christmas time to the ED as a token of appreciation for the fact that the guys who worked there had let her bring armies of students through the department with impunity. She was forced to give up this practice a couple of years ago because JCAHO deemed that the mere presence of a cookie in the ED was dangerous. At the very least, it seems that someone needs to regulate the regulators.

Thats the worst problem with the JACHO's. Different teams make up their own regulations, interpretations, and best practices, as they go along. The system is run by *****s, and they have no accountability.

 

[docB]

The system is run by *****s, and they have no accountability.

So true. I think that's in JCAHO's mission statement.

 

[rachmoninov3]

THANKS FOR THE PLATFORM FOR A JACHO RANT, I've needed one:

JACHO and functioning healthcare does not work well together. Asside from food at the nurses' station: if everything is in it's propper place, and never being used, then healthcare isn't being delivered!!!!!!!! (i had to explain this to our overly-neurotic unit secretary one evening at shift change...I wasn't about to stop checking to make sure my patients were safe to clean up the nurses' station b/c jacho was in the house).

JACHO seems to be a static system, while healthcare is dynamic.

thank you, I feel better, and can go to work feeling a little better tonight.
Maybe we can make a JACHO pinata after they give us our ok for the year!