Session Summary
Joint Commission surveys don’t have to feel like a game of hide-and-seek. This interactive session reframes the survey process as an opportunity for partnership rather than inspection. Participants explore real-world strategies to help organizations move from reactive preparation to a culture of continuous readiness. Through practical examples, leadership insights and frontline-focused tactics, attendees learn how to confidently show, rather than just tell about, their work, engage staff at all levels and build systems to support ongoing compliance and patient safety, long before surveyors arrive.
Objectives
- Evaluate and reduce survey-related anxiety.
- Apply actionable approaches that foster collaboration with Joint Commission surveyors.
- Illustrate how to support ongoing compliance through everyday operational practices.
Topics
Standards
Population
Adult, Pediatric, Neonatal, Across-the-Lifespan, Geriatric
Role
Manager, Educator, APRN, Staff, Researcher
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Successful Completion
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
Accreditation
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.25 contact hours.
Disclosure
Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.
Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.
Refund Policy
Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.