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.?
Actually the Joint Commission does not have the power to enact or enforce any regulation made by OSHA or otherwise. The Joint commission came into being because healthcare institutions did not want government oversight into their practices. As such the Joint Commission can only make recommendations.
However, all hospitals are required tohave a Joint Commission (or one of the 'Big Five') certification to receive Medicare and/or Medicaid reimbursement. In that light, their recommendations become critically important for the financial solvency of the facility.
Specializes in Surgical Specialty Clinic - Ambulatory Care.
12 hours ago, Davey Do said:
Honeybee, it's always been as Charles Dickens so aptly put it, "...the best of times... the worst of times".
From what I've heard from nursing students and my actively employed medical nurse wife Belinda, I need to give your quote back to you:
"I can't imagine going through your era."
Hopefully, we are all the right people born in the right time.
However, thank you for your empathy.
Ha! You are always so wry. What I continue to struggle with is why we put ourselves through this at all? I honestly wished I had become a plumber or like got a degree in horticulture. Since I support my husband and kid, I’m kinda stuck. I hate debt more than anything, it is so trapping.
Specializes in Surgical Specialty Clinic - Ambulatory Care.
I think it is kinda funny that everyone has posted how much of a lie TJC is…and management in general. Like I am so long in this field that every time another smoke screen gets blown away I get more apathetic about getting fired.
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
12 hours ago, KalipsoRed21 said:
What I continue to struggle with is why we put ourselves through this at all? I honestly wished I had become a plumber or like got a degree in horticulture.
We are led through our lifetimes by forces which we do not understand, sometimes never, sometimes at the end of our journeys.
At the end of our journeys, we can gain a different perspective on our temporal ancestor's thoughts and actions. "The fates lead them that will, those that won't they drag", to paraphrase Seneca.
To answer your question, KalipsoRed, we put "ourselves through this" in order to attain a higher level of consciousness. We may not be consciously aware of the forces that guide our lives, but they're there all the same.
For example, the reason why you didn't become a plumber or a horticulturist was because your higher self knows the lessons you need to learn in this lifetime. In order to attain a higher consciousness, you needed to become a nurse.
I could have been a professional artist for my primary livelihood. However, the Forces That Be directed me to nursing. Although I could have been renown artist, I would have gained little in soul development.
The Fates dragged me screaming and kicking into nursing, so to speak, by an MVA I suffered as a young adult. Once I accepted the guidance-allowed myself to go with the flow- everything was as smooth as silk.
Well, barring several major life crises, but we all have to deal with them, now don 't we.
These are the issues that really need attention, not the low hanging fruit-I.e. refrigerator temperatures, restraint documentation, food/drinks in patient care areas. JCAHO=J D Powers award-an award bought and paid for and means nothing
This is so true. They never address the big issues. And, when they do address those small issues they keep moving the goal posts bc they need to justify their existence.
On 1/15/2022 at 12:19 PM, hppygr8ful said:
As such the Joint Commission can only make recommendations
But the problem is that hospital admin reacts/implements those recommendations (no matter how stupid they are) as if they were carved in stone or else they will not obtain the gold seal of approval.
We are led through our lifetimes by forces which we do not understand, sometimes never, sometimes at the end of our journeys.
At the end of our journeys, we can gain a different perspective on our temporal ancestor's thoughts and actions. "The fates lead them that will, those that won't they drag", to paraphrase Seneca.
To answer your question, KalipsoRed, we put "ourselves through this" in order to attain a higher level of consciousness. We may not be consciously aware of the forces that guide our lives, but they're there all the same.
For example, the reason why you didn't become a plumber or a horticulturist was because your higher self knows the lessons you need to learn in this lifetime. In order to attain a higher consciousness, you needed to become a nurse.
I could have been a professional artist for my primary livelihood. However, the Forces That Be directed me to nursing. Although I could have been renown artist, I would have gained little in soul development.
The Fates dragged me screaming and kicking into nursing, so to speak, by an MVA I suffered as a young adult. Once I accepted the guidance-allowed myself to go with the flow- everything was as smooth as silk.
Well, barring several major life crises, but we all have to deal with them, now don 't we.
If your theory is correct I am not sure what “higher consciousness” has done for me. I have become more jaded and cynical since becoming a nurse. I sometimes tell people I used to be a nice person until I became a nurse. Although now that I am retired I feel that nice person coming back more and more. But like KalipsoRed I wish I had done something else instead of nursing with less stress and more money. The job itself was OK but the powers that be (admin, JC and other agencies etc) just made the environment unbearable (at least in my experience).
IDK DD, I see one’s soul as being your mind/emotions so I think my soul would have been more at peace in a different career, who knows.
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
Back in '02, the community mental health facility where I was NS flew me and another supervisor to a two-day conference on Chicago. The conference was given by experts on how to ready an organization for JC accreditation.
I still basically remember the words one of the presentations said: "One of the biggest stumbling blocks that facilities go through is overkill when attempting to meet JC's guidelines".
I have found overkill to be the case in many instances.
Anyway, the facility opted to not go for accreditation from JC, as the guidelines to be met were more centered on a medical facility and not one providing psych services.
I think the accreditation agency went by CARF for its acronym.
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
20 minutes ago, Daisy4RN said:
If your theory is correct I am not sure what “higher consciousness” has done for me. I have become more jaded and cynical since becoming a nurse. I sometimes tell people I used to be a nice person until I became a nurse. Although now that I am retired I feel that nice person coming back more and more. But like KalipsoRed I wish I had done something else instead of nursing with less stress and more money. The job itself was OK but the powers that be (admin, JC and other agencies etc) just made the environment unbearable (at least in my experience).
IDK DD, I see one’s soul as being your mind/emotions so I think my soul would have been more at peace in a different career, who knows.
Oh Daisy. You do know what to say to cause me to react like one of Pavlov's dogs.
The soul is quite different from the personality, and Edgar Cayce encouraged is to try to imagine what it would be like living one day separate from our personalities. The vast majority of us cannot go one minute living without our personalities.
According to a belief in the askashic record, no good that we've ever done can be erased. And I am relatively certain, Ms. Daisy, that you have elevated your consciousness through you care for others.
Just because your personality manifests the bumps and bruises of your travels does not mean that your soul is swimming in mystic waters.
And now: Back to our program, Sunday's episode of "Joint Commision Bashing "!
Oh Daisy. You do know what to say to cause me to react like one of Pavlov's dogs.
The soul is quite different from the personality, and Edgar Cayce encouraged is to try to imagine what it would be like living one day separate from our personalities. The vast majority of us cannot go one minute living without our personalities.
According to a belief in the askashic record, no good that we've ever done can be erased. And I am relatively certain, Ms. Daisy, that you have elevated your consciousness through you care for others.
Just because your personality manifests the bumps and bruises of your travels does not mean that your soul is swimming in mystic waters.
Thank you for your eloquent illumination DD!
2 hours ago, Davey Do said:
And now: Back to our program, Sunday's episode of "Joint Commision Bashing
Looks like the 2022 “new” recommendations have been repurposed from years past…
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However, all hospitals are required to have a Joint Commission (or one of the 'Big Five') certification to receive Medicare and/or Medicaid reimbursement. In that light, their recommendations become critically important for the financial solvency of the facility.