Peer Review
How the Agency reviews the professional practice of any licensed health care professional it employs or contracts, including nursing peer review under Texas Occupations Code Chapter 303 whenever the Agency regularly employs, hires, or contracts for eight or more nurses, and the protections a nurse has when requesting safe harbor.
About this policy
- Policy number
- TX-QA-03
- Version
- 1.1
- Main rule
- 26 TAC §558.251
- Library
- Texas home care · 46 policies
- Category
- Quality
- Sections
- 14
In short
- If you have a concern about a nurse's care, tell Pat Sample the same day.
- As a nurse, you may refuse an unsafe task and ask for safe harbor protection.
- You will never be punished for reporting a concern or requesting safe harbor.
- Keep anything you learn during a practice review confidential. Don't discuss it with others.
What's inside
14 sections. The full text comes with the One-time Policy Pack.
- Terms of Reference
- 1. Purpose
- 2. Scope
- 3. Definitions
- 4. Policy Statement (26 TAC §558.251)
- 5. Procedure
- 6. Responsibilities
- 6.1 Staff Training
- 7. Records
- 7.1 Compliance Monitoring
- 8. References
- 9. Related Documents
- 10. Approval
- 11. Revision History
An inspector may ask
- How many nurses does the Agency employ or contract? Show me how you track that number against the ten-nurse threshold.
- Show me your written peer review policy and where nurses are told about it.
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