RE: Age related Joint Commission question
From: | Bert Dotson <amdj@duke.edu> |
If you have patient contact with patients of varying ages (particularly but
not necessarily limited to pediatric and geriatric patients) OR if your
work (e.g. procedures, laboratory reference ranges, alert values) varies
according to patient age the Joint Commission quite reasonably requires
than your competency testing specifically address differences in the
procedures you may have to follow for patients of different ages. Judging
from at least one posting I saw earlier there are some "managers" requiring
people to invent stuff so that everyone in the hospital will have age
specific competencies. If you have no procedures that vary according to the
age of the patient and no patient contact, you probably can check this
"does not apply". This lets the vast majority of histotechs off the
hook--but not all.
Bert
-----Original Message-----
From: Eileen_Dusek@cdh.org [SMTP:Eileen_Dusek@cdh.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 4:11 PM
To: HistoNet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: Age related Joint Commession question
Recently someone wrote about an age related question for the Joint
Commission. I was just asked to see if this would be pertinent to
Histology. Does anyone have a clue
Thanks
Eileen
Central Dupage Hospital.
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