International healthcare accreditation

today’s era of nursing, nurses practice in an “accountability age.” The quality of care provided to each patient as well as cost issues is what drives the direction of healthcare. Patients are becoming more informed and knowledgeable about their own health as well as prevalence of medical errors within hospitals and other healthcare institutions across the United States. To decrease such errors such as nosocomial infections, medication errors, pressure ulcers, and even death, health care…

program. The development of the NPSGs began with a panel of nurses, physicians, pharmacists, risk managers, clinical engineers and other professionals with adequate experience in the world of patient safety (“Facts about NPSGs”, 2015). This group of healthcare professionals collectively became the Patient Safety Advisory Group. Together, they worked with the Joint Commission to identify issues in patient safety and propose ideas on how to address them. Rooted to drive accredited…

now exist that could have prevented the error? (Cite the source where you found the initiative, guideline or protocol). Crew resource management is a safety system, which initially employed by Aviation industry and then adopted by the healthcare industry. Healthcare CRM training was encouraged in the United States by the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err Is Human. CRM training is based on the theory that teamwork can create a safer environment and, to manage risk it is necessary to…

In today’s fast paced healthcare environment there is constant struggle to provide the best and safe care to patients and at the same time keep the organization profitable. Nurse patient ratio is one of the areas in healthcare where this struggle is visualized on a regular basis. Nurse patient ratios need to be reevaluated because medicine has come a long way from twenty thirty years ago and patients are suffering from many comorbidities which makes it harder to safely care for patients while we…

have been proposed in regard to the efficiency and efficacy of their accreditation processes (CITE). For this reason, many feel that the ACCJC is not meeting their obligation to maintain institutional quality. In the following sections, I will discuss what issues specifically the ACCJC is having in terms of maintenance of institutional quality and what recommendations have been suggested for the commission to improve it’s accreditation processes. These recommendations were derived—in some…

Practice Florence Nightingale stated in her book Notes on Hospitals, published in 1859, “the very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm” (Chilton, 2008). Nightingale’s 150-year old expectation continues to hold firm in healthcare today. When patients are admitted to the hospital, nurses are held to a high level of standard to provide care across the life span. Imagine when that standard of care is not met though, and a patient’s health is threatened through a…

refers to the results of the treatment or care received by the patient (Grove, Gray, & Burns, 2015). Whether accessing care telephonically or in person, the three areas identified by Donabedian to evaluate quality of care are applicable in all healthcare settings. Currently, I am employed as a telecommuter working for Optum,…

Congress requested a study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to assess disparities in the quality of healthcare received by the United States racial minorities and non-minorities in 2001. The report found racial and ethnic minorities experience a lower quality of health care services and are less likely to receive routine medical procedures versus white Americana. Health care is and has always changed so fast. According to the study, there are six specific aims for improvement for growth in…

to the public and assist with the clinical staff and medical doctors for disease identification and further to provide patients with an adequate combined medical treatment. Quality assurance of medical laboratory is regulated and accredited by international standardisation organisations. Along the whole processes of patient-centred laboratory medicine, it could be categorised by five stage: screening of disease, risk identification and stratification, clinical diagnosis, medical treatment…

the U.S. and other high-income countries, healthcare has become an imperative topic of concern. This is due to the National health risks, for instance, AIDS, flu, and bioterrorism. These risks affect international health, politics and commerce (03). Therefore, in every medical facility there is need for management in order to achieve the best results for both staff and patients. One of the ways of management is through healthcare administration. Healthcare administration involves managing and…