Manual: Human Resources Manual (Ver 7) Department: HOSPITALWIDE
This customizable document, Safety Continuing Education, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Human Resources 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:
Hospital 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: fire/life safety, fire prevention, emergency management, body mechanics, electrical hazards, hazardous materials, patient safety, general/departmental safety, safety hazards specific to patient ages and security.
The Safety/Environment of Care Committee shall analyze Incident Summaries for accident trends and shall modify all safety inservices accordingly. This practice shall... |
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| | ...attend safety inservice annually scheduled to coincide with employees anniversary date. 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 scheduling these inservices, some of which attendance will be mandatory.
Documentation on all safety related inservices will be signed by employee and shall be kept by... |
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