It’s here! The ESRD Core Survey. What will it include? How does it impact your center? What can a facility do to prepare effectively for this new process? Listen as experts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and individuals who worked extensively on project development explain the new process, and how you as a manager can succeed at improving your dialysis processes of care that impact patient safety.

Contact hours available until 10/13/2016.

Requirements for Successful Completion:
Complete the learning activity in its entirety and complete the online CNE evaluation. You will be able to print your CNE certificate at any time after you complete the evaluation.

Faculty, Planners, and Speakers Conflict of Interest Disclosure:

Planning Commitee disclosures:
• Denise Murcek - Per diem employee, Fresenius Medical Care
• Melissa Nesmith-Vester – Employee, Aegerion
• Elizabeth St. John - Employee, Fresenius Medical Care
• Kyra Trappett – Employee, DaVita

Faculty and speakers have no disclosures to declare.

Commercial Support and Sponsorship:
No commercial support or sponsorship declared.

Accreditation Statement:
American Nephrology Nurses’ Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

ANNA is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 00910.

Objectives:

• Discuss the central concepts and innovations of the ESRD Core Survey.
• Explain how familiar survey tasks have changed to focus surveyors on aspects of processes of care that impact patient safety.
• Describe how the Core Survey individualizes survey reviews of clinical care and QAPI, based on each facility’s data.

Judith Kari MSSW, ACSW, LISCW

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