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ACCREDITATION AND PATIENT SAFETY 1
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Role of accreditation in ensuring patient safety
Accreditation is the process where an external agency to the organization’s services assesses the company. The assessment is conducted to evaluate whether a set of pre-determined guidelines publicly meets and certifies the results. In 2002, the joint commission developed and established its own National Patient Safety goals program abbreviated as NSPG. In 2003, the first set of NSPG came into operation. It was implemented to assist accredited organizations in solving particular issues related to and affecting patients.
Patient safety
Quality can be interpreted in many different ways. Healthcare organizations depend on regulatory agencies that include the joint commission, Medicaid, and the centers and then the institute of healthcare improvements. Other agencies controlling and regulating the quality of healthcare services offered to patients include healthcare research and quality. The agencies identify outcomes that illustrate the quality and develop benchmarks for demonstrating outcome achievements. These agencies also deliver directions and guidelines to healthcare institutions that enable them to meet patient safety, quality outcomes, and cost-effectiveness. To illustrate compliance with the laid down directives, healthcare organizations must identify strategies f data collection that measure these effort’s achievements. Such data is compared, analyzed, and monitored to established benchmarks.
Relationship between the joint commission survey and NSPG
A group containing recognized experts in patient safety offers advice to the joint commission related to the updating and development of NSPG; this group, which is known as the patient safety advisory group, is made up of doctors, nurses, risk managers, pharmacists, and clinical engineers as well as other professionals in patient management. The joint commission has the role of determining the highest priority for patient safety issues and the best strategies for treating those (Anderson et al., 2020). The commission has also mandated the role of evaluating whether or not it complies with a specific accreditation program. If it applies to it, it then adjusts the objective to a particular program.
Consequences
In the case of detecting any deficiencies, the institution is given 45 days for direct impact standards or 60 days for direct impact standards to comply and submit a form regarded as the ESC. Accreditation is granted after the reviewing of the form when it meets all the criteria. Denial and revocation of accreditation standards are denied when the joint committee fails to comply with the established rules and regulations. This may pose a significant adverse effect on the organization’s finances.
Organization readiness
Every institution must conduct a self-assessment consistently to prepare for the survey. One of the effective ways to evaluate the official survey is to conduct simulated surveys. In mock surveyors, the facility must act on it as an official survey concerning the NSPGs and the joint commission (Rantanen, 2017). Conducting survey simulations creates a platform for the institution to assess its readiness and preparation. It also provides ways for preparing its staff for the official meeting; this improves the chances for a positive outcome. Practicing how to face and interact with interviewers also assists the employees to reduce anxiety during the process.
Action
The process of accreditation starts when the application is submitted. A fee is charged based on the location and size of the organization. After receiving both of these, secured login credentials are given to the company for the joint commission connect portal. The organization is then assigned a registered surveyor (Baker, 2017). He performs both the unannounced and announced survey. It is completely imperative that any changes and modifications made to the company to be notified to the joint commission immediately. The public should also be informed the organization is looking for accreditation and where to report any complaints related to quality and safety complaints. The survey duration is based on the size and complexity of the organization.
Conclusion
The joint commission standards form the basis of an objective evaluation process. The process assists healthcare organizations in evaluating, measure, and improves their performance. The standards also focus on patient care’s critical functions, and the company essential to providing safe and quality care. The joint commission’s advanced standards develop and implement reasonable anticipations of organization performance that are valuable and achievable.
References
Baker, D. W. (2017). History of The Joint Commissions pain standards: lessons for todays prescription opioid epidemic.Jama,317(11), 1117-1118.
Rantanen, J., Lehtinen, S., Valenti, A., & Iavicoli, S. (2017). A global survey on occupational health services in selected international commission on occupational health (ICOH) member countries.BMC Public Health,17(1), 1-15.
Anderson, J. E., Jurkovich, G. J., Galante, J. M., & Farmer, D. L. (2020). A Survey of the Surgical Morbidity and Mortality Conference in the United States and Canada: A Dying Tradition or the Key to Modern Quality Improvement?.Journal of Surgical Education.
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