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A C C R E D I T A T I O N
READER SURVEY
Rate Your Surveyor
When the surveyor showed up at a brand new ASC "that was still trying to figure out how to be an ASC," the facility had so few paper charts that it didn't bother numbering them. "We were dinged for not using account numbers on the 12 charts the surveyor audited," says the administrator. "An oversight for sure, but the citation was severe for the offense." During your last accreditation survey, was your surveyor too picky? Here are the results from when we asked that question to 123 readers last month:
• Too picky 26.8%
• Not picky enough 8.1%
• Just right 65.0%
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privileges. For not labeling a syringe during a pain management procedure. For not having signage posted stating you use radiology equipment in the department in case someone is pregnant. "Because we don't do surgery on pregnant patients this seemed to be a bit beyond reasonable," says Audrey Van Veen, RN-C, BSN, MSM, of the MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, Wash.
For using the "wrong" font. "We were using Calibri on both our quality projects and board meeting minutes," says Barbara Marco, RN, BSN, MS, administrator of the Camp Lowell Surgery Center in Tucson, Ariz.
"The surveyor suggested Times New Roman or Arial. My nursing director and I came in at 0400 the second survey day to reformat the font on
