Re: JCAHO in the ER Originally Posted by RunnerRN 
I only work weekends so I "missed" our JCAHO visit this yr (they showed up on Monday, and left on Friday late...darn) but I've heard from many of my coworkers that they followed patients this time. They followed a visit from registration/triage, to the room, to xray/CT, to inpatient room. They wanted to be sure we were reporting off correctly, patient's privacy was being addressed, and transitions were smooth.
It was *supposedly* not bad. The hard thing is doing everything the "right" way (by right, I mean JCAHO's definition of right) even when it is getting crazy busy.
Good luck!
Ha ha, I hope they picked someone with a really minor, total non-emergency and got to camp out in the ER for half a century. But, of course, they did not, I'd bet. Too bad.
I think JCAHO has really gone over the top with the Do Not Use abbreviations list. Bunch of clowns who don't do the work, they just sit in an office and make rules to justify their salaries.
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