Disciplines included in my Annual Training Plan

Then select five organizations/institutions for the list above and review their websites to learn more about the role of each organization/institution in the healthcare industry.
For this Module Pre-Assessment, locate an additional resource for each of the organizations/institutions you selected and create a list of the resources you would like to use for your Final Assessment.

1. Joint Commission (Jcaho)
2. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
3. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
4. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
5. Center for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS)

The Joint Commission is the largest standards-setting, and accrediting body in healthcare. Most states require a health care facility to be accredited as a condition of licensure and Medicare reimbursement. They visit each facility every 36 months to evaluate standards of compliance. On their website www.jointcommission.org there is a plethura of information. What stood out to me was a tool called Safer dashboard. This is a business tool available to Jcaho accredited organizations. Among the many applicable uses as a Nurse Manager was the access to data to identify trends. You can create measurable goals and track the outcomes. Another feature is it allows you to plan, allocate and apply resources including staff training.
Under the recourses there was a tab for nurses. I clicked on that and then on the safety. There is a monthly publication on the latest information and issues regarding patient safety. I signed up to receive this.

The CDC mission statement is “We work 24/7 to protect the safety, health, and security of America from threats here and around the world” (cdc.gov). They are the leading science based, data driven organization in the nation. Under their publications tab, public health law there were many articles of interest. What was most intreging and applicable to my organization was the Telehealth and Telemedicine articles. Specifically the Report called Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring use in the Medicare and Selected Federal programs found at www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/anthologies/anthologies-telehealth.html This report published in April of 2017 released by the United States Government Accountability Office to the Congressional Committees, discusses information involving two other organizations from my list. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) allow certain requirements pertaining to Telehealth and Telemedicine to be waived. One part of the waiver is to allow its beneficiaries to access telehealth in urban areas and at home (cdc.gov). Each state imposes its own regulation for Telehealth and Telemedicine. The Veterans Affairs (VA) does not restrict the use of Telehealth or Telemedicine. These services may occur at any location or combination of locations.
The FDA or Food and Drug Administration is tasked with ensuring the safety and efficacy of medical devices, food, drugs, radiating-emitting devices, vaccines, blood, biologics, cosmetics, tobacco, and animal and veterinary. Many of these topics are directly related to the healthcare field. The site www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-education-resources-materials/health-educators-nutrition-toolkit-setting-table-healthy-eating.com was fun, and interactive. The resources provided were applicable to our patients learning and staff. The handouts were visually appealing and fun to look at. This will draw in the patient to take a further look. They offer a power point presentation I could use in our annual training. Additionally, they offer downloadable tweets and facebook posts. I believe this would make a great addition to our VA facebook page.
The mission of HHS is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans. CMS is part of HHS. CMS overseas various health insurance programs. They also work to prevent fraud and abuse within the healthcare system. As stated in an article found through the CDC I am most interested in their roles with regards to Telehealth and Telemedicine. I believe that the pandemic of Covid has shed light to the many flaws in our system. The lack of available care for so many allows for easily preventable or manageable conditions to reach the point of requiring hospital admissions. Telehealth removes many barriers to care such as lack of transportation or distance to a clinic.
www.cms.gov
www.hhs.gov

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Joint Commission

Wadhwa R, Huynh AP. The Joint Commission. [Updated 2021 Mar 8]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2021 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557846/

This resource highlights the functions of the Joint Commission, including its year of formation goals and mission. This resource also highlights the issues of concern that the Joint Commission focuses on to improve the quality of healthcare services in the US. The report also highlights that the Joint Commission is responsible for setting healthcare quality standards across the US to protect public health and safety. The resource also highlights the clinical significance of the roles played by the Joint Commission, including how the Joint Commission helps the individual, the health system in general, and different programs in the health system. This resource also highlights the Joint Commission’s impact on nurses, allied health care professionals, and the interprofessional teams.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Tappero, J. W., Cassell, C. H., Bunnell, R. E., Angulo, F. J., Craig, A., Pesik, N., Dahl, B. A., Ijaz, K., Jafari, H., Martin, R., & Global Health Security Science Group (2017). US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Its Partners’ Contributions to Global Health Security. Emerging infectious diseases, 23(13), S5–S14. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2313.170946.

This journal article highlights the different contributions the CDC has made to control and prevent diseases globally and the different contributions that the CDC has had on global health security. The article, therefore, highlights how the CDC collaborates with countries and different partners to ensure that global health security preparedness is established and strengthened so that public health crises can be responded to as quickly as possible. The article also highlights selected global health protection accomplishments by the CDC that have helped to mitigate different global health threats in the past and contain disease outbreaks at their source. Therefore, this article highlights that the function of the CDC is not just to combat and prevent disease outbreaks in the US but also to help different countries across the world improve their capacity to prevent public health crises.

Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)

Homer C. (2017). Human Services. Public health reports (Washington, DC: 1974), 132(2), 127–129. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033354916689662

This article highlights the significant role that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plays in improving health in the United States. The article enumerates the mission of the HHS, which is to protect and enhance the well-being and health of all Americans. In the article, the author highlights the additional roles that the HHS plays in improving America’s health apart from the most common roles associated with the HHS, such as public health, fostering advances in medicine, and ensuring access to effective clinical services through Medicaid and Medicare. The article highlights that the human services function of HHS is also important in achieving the goal of a healthier US population.

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Fleming, T. R., Demets, D. L., & McShane, L. M. (2017). Discussion: The role, position, and function of the FDA—The past, present, and future. Biostatistics, 18(3), 417–421. https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxx023

This article highlights the FDA’s mission, which entails protecting public health by ensuring the efficacy, safety, and security of biological products, human and veterinary drugs, and medical services and ensuring the safety of cosmetics products that emit radiation and food supply. The article also highlights the different responsibilities that the FDA performs to advance public health and how the FDA’s role has evolved from the past and will continue to change in the present and the future.

Center for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS)

Graca, M., & Keune, J. D. (2017). Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program: A New Financial Conflict of Interest for Physicians. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 225(4), e78–e79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2017.07.736

This article highlights the most recent changes that CMS has proposed through the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The article highlights the changes made by CMS on their investment formula to include the quality payment program and value-based reimbursement model.

References

Fleming, T. R., Demets, D. L., & McShane, L. M. (2017). Discussion: The role, position, and

function of the FDA—The past, present, and future. Biostatistics, 18(3), 417–421. https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxx023

Graca, M., & Keune, J. D. (2017). Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality

Payment Program: A New Financial Conflict of Interest for Physicians. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 225(4), e78–e79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2017.07.736

Homer C. (2017). Human Services. Public health reports (Washington, DC: 1974), 132(2),

127–129. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033354916689662

Tappero, J. W., Cassell, C. H., Bunnell, R. E., Angulo, F. J., Craig, A., Pesik, N., Dahl, B. A.,

Ijaz, K., Jafari, H., Martin, R., & Global Health Security Science Group (2017). US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Its Partners’ Contributions to Global Health Security. Emerging infectious diseases, 23(13), S5–S14. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2313.170946.

Wadhwa R, Huynh AP. The Joint Commission. [Updated 2021 Mar 8]. In: StatPearls [Internet].

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2021 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557846/