The Compliance Guide to Ethics, Rights, And Responsibilities: Winning Stratigies For JCAHO And CMS Compliance

The Joint Commission's ethics, rights, and responsibilities standards are troublesome, problematic, and downright difficult to comply with. Compounding that headache, both the JCAHO and CMS have responded to high-profile, end-of-life care events and new ethical challenges by increasing their focus on these areas. The Compliance Guide to Ethics, Rights, and Responsibilities: Winning Strategies for JCAHO and CMS Compliance provides the policies, procedures, tips, and tools you need to comply with these thorny standards. This book zeroes in on the most problematic JCAHO and CMS standards and provides a focused look at topics spanning pain management, informed consent, corporate compliance, advance directives, and privacy. We've thoroughly covered two organizations' compliance requirements in one volume! You need to make sure staff are aware of hospital policies and that they know how to comply with CMS and JCAHO standards. You also need to be certain that your facility has effective processes in place to avoid conflicts of interest and other instances that prompt ethical concerns. If that's not enough, you have to do all this while balancing the sensitive issues surrounding privacy, security, and end-of-life care.