Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

[KalipsoRed21]

I love to get on Youtube and watch nurse stuff. Nurse Blake is one of my favorites. He somehow manages to be funny without being cynical (I am a total cynicist myself). 
But this video points out the real failure JACHO has been in the last two years. It also makes me wonder if JACHO is more like hospitals paying for accreditation than actually attaining something. Kinda like how food manufacturers pay for the American Heart Association logo for their food products to try to sell them more, but it really isn’t the healthiest thing to eat…

Anyway here is a link to the video of Nurse Blake JACHO vs Water Bottles. At the very least you will have a good laugh! And just for fun I also sent an email to The Joint Commission letting them know how much they let us down with a link to this video as well. I hope they enjoyed it. Feel free to do so as well.?

 

[JKL33]

10 hours ago, MelEpiRN said:

Eating/ drinking in patient care areas is an OSHA regulation. Gotta take it up with them. TJC enforces OSHA.  

This is true. However, OSHA didn't state that a nurse's work station was a patient care area--as far as I can tell that was purely on admin (who blamed other various organizations PRN), sometimes for their own reasons (control, misery) and sometimes because...non-thinkers (not all, but enough of them).

I do blame jake-o for significantly contributing to the problem of opioid abuse, though they now claim they never had anything to do with it and were always on the right side of things. Also consider them 100% not legit since they don't have, and haven't had, anything helpful to say about staffing ratios, which...not really sure you can pretend you're about safety while ignoring that.

[JKL33]

Had an admin ask us how we would feel if we went into ________ [local business, e.g. bank, insurance agency, motor vehicle dept] and the person waiting on us was "sucking on a water bottle."

My thought was: I would think their boss is smarter than...um...other people's bosses.

I believe that they just didn't want us to have our water with us all along. So they made up official-sounding reasons why we couldn't have it. It's an issue that was never even an issue. Simple: Don't have your drink where you're handling lab samples and potential infectious material.

[NightNerd, MSN, RN]

7 minutes ago, JKL33 said:

Had an admin ask us how we would feel if we went into ________ [local business, e.g. bank, insurance agency, motor vehicle dept] and the person waiting on us was "sucking on a water bottle."

That is ridiculous. Does this person just expect everyone to dehydrate themselves at work? Unreasonable. I can confidently say that of all the things that bug me about going to the DMV, seeing an employee sip their beverage simply doesn't register. Similarly, of all the complaints I've heard from patients and families over the years, my water bottle sitting next to me while I document has, astoundingly, never come up. Wacky.

[JKL33]

1 minute ago, NightNerd said:

That is ridiculous. Does this person just expect everyone to dehydrate themselves at work? Unreasonable. I can confidently say that of all the things that bug me about going to the DMV, seeing an employee sip their beverage simply doesn't register. Similarly, of all the complaints I've heard from patients and families over the years, my water bottle sitting next to me while I document has, astoundingly, never come up. Wacky.

Yes. It was actually kind of hilarious because the person said it with such a haughty air (also meant to disparage all of us who dare to drink water). They thought it would be some kind of "gotcha" statement, as if the idea of going to a bank and seeing a teller with their coffee would actually make us say, "Ooooh. Yes, we see what you mean, that is horrid customer service!! ?"

Instead everyone just had this look like, "wut?"

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[OUxPhys, BSN, RN]

Joint Commission never had any credibility to begin with. 

[chare]

22 hours ago, MelEpiRN said:

Eating/ drinking in patient care areas is an OSHA regulation. Gotta take it up with them. TJC enforces OSHA.  

OSHA regulations don't specifically prohibit eating/drinking at the nurses station; rather they the prohibit "consumption of food and drink in areas where work involving exposure or potential exposure to blood or other potentially infectious or toxic material exists."  These regulations further requires health care organization to "evaluate the workplace to determine locations where potential contamination may occur and prohibit employees from eating or drinking in those areas."  Rather than do this, most organizations outright ban eating/drinking at the nurses station.

Staff Food and Drink in Patient Care Areas

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

I think Nurse Blake is funny. And he has beautiful teeth. 

[Jedrnurse, BSN, RN]

3 hours ago, OUxPhys said:

Joint Commission never had any credibility to begin with. 

I wonder if any nurse from the JC has ever "shown up" here and tried to present their case...

[dream'n, BSN, RN]

JC and the ANA are both useless in my opinion

[Jedrnurse, BSN, RN]

5 hours ago, dream'n said:

JC and the ANA are both useless in my opinion

Or maybe they're useful, except just for corporate interests...

[KalipsoRed21, BSN, RN]

10 hours ago, dream'n said:

JC and the ANA are both useless in my opinion

And most BONs. I fail to see how most of what they do protects patients. They just add on stipulations for keeping your license or how you work, but don’t provide nurses any ability to stand up for good care. Waste of time. I regret becoming a nurse 100%. I have a decent job, work with good people, finally working days, and I still hate it. I give up! ?‍♀️
 

[toomuchbaloney]

I'm not certain that association with or accreditation by "The Joint" is associated with any real advantage for the patient.  

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6193202/