Part Eight of Ten: Surgery, PACU, Anesthesia, and Organ Procurement

Learning Objectives:

• Recall the required surgical policies
• Discuss recent updates to surgical consent requirements to include exams outside of designated procedure
• Recall that CMS has specific things that are required to be documented in the medical record regarding the post-anesthesia assessment
• Describe that all staff must be trained in the hospital’s policy on organ donation.

Who Should Attend:-

CEOs, chief operations officers, chief nursing officers, chief legal officers, nurses and medical staff, quality managers, nurse educators, risk managers, compliance officers, chief of health information, pharmacists, social workers, discharge planners, patient safety officers, outpatient director, director of rehab, infection control, directors of radiology.