Manual: Ambulatory Services Environment of Care Manual (Ver 3) Department: AMBULATORY SERVICES External Reference: (TJC EC.1.10, HR.2.20)(AAAHC 8.B.1)
This customizable document, Safety Continuing Education, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Ambulatory Services Environment of Care Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools. MCN provides more than 80 health care specific policy and procedure manuals for Acute Care Hospitals, Ambulatory Care, Behavioral Health, Home Health, Physician Practice, and Long Term Care. MCN’s policy and procedure manuals focus on the latest healthcare "hot topic" issues related to patient safety and prevention of medical healthcare errors. Here is some sample content from Safety Continuing Education:
| | POLICY:
Facility is committed to safe practices by employees. In addition to initial orientation, all employees will be scheduled for inservices on a variety of safety issues including, but not limited to: life safety, fire prevention, emergency management, body mechanics, electrical hazards, hazardous materials, general/departmental safety, safety hazards specific to patient ages and security.
The Safety Committee shall analyze Incident Summaries for accident trends and shall modify all safety inservices accordingly. This practice shall encourage safe procedures and the recognition of... |
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| | ...inservice annually to coincide with their anniversary dates. Any employee having two 2 Employee Accident Reports within six 6 months will be assigned to the next appropriate class.
These inservices will be ongoing and scheduled by the department manager. Employees will be informed prior to the scheduling of these inservices, some of which will have mandatory attendance.
Documentation on all safety-related inservices will be signed by employee and shall be kept by .
SUBJECT:
SAFETY... |
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