Stupid (or impossible) things Joint Commission has required

They made the OR team where my daughter works have a little ringy-dingy bell (like the kind they use at the meat counter in the grocery store) to announce it is time for the "time out."

They made us change our forms that are used by the anesthesiologist to keep the intra-operative vital signs record. The ones they rejected are the very same ones they made us develop after their previous visit.

When the nurses passed all the questions they were being asked about our fire protocols, they upped the ante and required us to describe a second exit/evacuation route.

Lab jackets on the backs of chairs at the nursing station. Nope.

One of our units uses "raspberries" and JC decided they didn't keep charts secure enough. So now they are locked in medication drawers. Physicians, therapists, social workers and case managers have to have the nurse unlock the drawer and then relock the drawer EVERY time anyone needs to see the chart.

We have to have someone at all times at the station so that our chart rack is always within the line of sight of one of the staff.

The mobil computers that we HAVE to use to manage our patient care are considered "clutter" and if seen in the hall are considered to be blocking the egress. Isolation carts (that are bigger) are not blocking the egress. Go figure.

Give me time. I'll think of others.