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Re: JACHO From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Thu May 11 17:07:41 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: D. Ashley Hill: "Re: Washington Times article" Previous message: Lynn Montgomery, MD: "JACHO" Perhaps we could let them know directly via email how we feel? Do you have a contact person? Art At Thu, 11 May 2006, Lynn Montgomery, MD wrote: > >Listers, >The outstanding organization, JACHO, has stuck another blow in making the >practice of medicine safer for all of us. In my hospital, these are the >changes that have been mandated: > >-Before giving each patient their breakfast tray, each patient's hospital ID >has to be looked at to verify their identity. > >-The kitchen on the Women's Unit had an industrial, commercial grade soup >warmer that the cafeteria stocked with soup each evening for patients and >staff. That has been removed because it is against JACHO regulations. > >-The kleenex boxes have been removed from the nurses stations and patient >rooms because they are unsanitary and against JACHO regulations. > >-Despite patient admission and discharge meds being documented on H&P's, >order sheets and prescription forms with duplicates, a separate form has to >be included in the chart with all admission meds, all discharge meds and >signed, not once, but twice by the physician. > >-Pre-op H&P's dictated greater than 24 hours prior to surgery have to be >updated and signed a second time. > >-When writing for medications such as Phenergan, it is not sufficient to >write "IV q3-4h prn", it has to be written "IV q3-4h prn for nausea and >vomiting". Or better yet, you can't use "Dulcolax suppositories prn". It >has to be "Dulcolax suppositories prn constipation"... > >These jerks have got to be sitting around a big table thinking of things to >continue justifying their existence... >Lynn -- art fougner, md Support Free Speech Buy Danish! Next message: D. Ashley Hill: "Re: Washington Times article" Previous message: Lynn Montgomery, MD: "JACHO"

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