Reflective Journal- Wellness and disease prevention

Reflective Journal

Wellness and Disease prevention

During this week I learned a lot about plan of correction for the Department of health. Knowing the F-tags and what regulation is telling you to do, then educating your staff of that policy. The facility is given a certain amount of time to fix these corrections and document the change. If all goes well and the department of health accepts the plan of correction, then the facility can continue to function while waiting for another visit anytime. Collaborative of care is needed to fix this because no one manager, supervisor or director can complete this task. Being that the facility has over 300 employees, one must educate everyone there and document it. Then going forward they must create a new policy for that incident not to occur again and the repercussions if it did. Every citation from the surveyor must be corrected and competency of the employee must be documented. This whole process brings stress for both the manager and staff.

We focus on hazard prevention- are we transferring the patient correctly by looking at their transfer status and following their care plan.

Infection control- We are assessing the patients skin and caring for them to prevent any breakdown in the future.

Is the staffs competency up to date, showing they know how to care for these patients and is informed of the facility policies and procedures as to how they should do so.

ABOVE IS WHAT WE SPOKE ABOUT. PLEASE EXPAND ON THE IDEA AND INCLUDE DOCUMENTS FROM THE ATTACHMENT TO SUM IT UP.