Our Friends...JCAHO
It was the middle of the afternoon that I thought I saw my whole nursing career flash before my eyes. Every hospital person knows what JCAHO is. Well they usually come at a time when I'm not working, and in school you don't have to deal with them. Guess that all changes now! The "mock" JCAHO people came around (we found out later they weren't so "fake" afterall...) and of course want to see all the units. By the time they get to L&D we're on C/S #5 of the day, we have a bunch of triages and look, one labor patient on the board. Guess who's patient she is?! Someone sends me to go get J and have her talk to the group of 15 people standing around the nurses station in their business suits. J comes out to the desk and tells our manager, "I haven't touched that chart. Beckie's had that patient on her own 'cuz I've had my own two triages!" So now guess who gets to talk to Joint Commission?! Thank all the higher powers that...