Maggie McWilliams, RN, BSN, LNC
Maggie McWilliams is the CEO and owner of McWilliams Healthcare Consulting, LLC, a healthcare consulting firm with clients in Louisiana, Kansas, Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Ms. McWilliams earned her nursing degree in New York in 1980. She served as medical certification program manager for hospitals at the Health Standards Section of the Louisiana Department of Health for a decade. She has also worked as a staff nurse, supervisor, nurse manager, director of nursing, program director, administrator, clinical educator, infection control coordinator, director of quality, survey specialist, legal nurse consultant, and regulatory program manager.
Presentation Objectives
- Learning Objective 1: Verbalize the criteria for an Immediate Jeopardy finding.
- Learning Objective 2: Describe the ramifications of being found to be in Immediate Jeopardy.
- Learning Objective 3: Articulate how to construct a Plan of Removal in order for the Immediate Jeopardy finding to be lifted.
- Learning Objective 4: Verbalize the types of occurrences that must be reported.
- Learning Objective 5: Demonstrate an understanding of reporting requirements to different entities (e.g. the Health Standards Section of LDH, local law enforcement, protective services bureaus).
- Learning Objective 6: Identify the advantages and disadvantages of submitting self-reports.