Hospital accreditation

The role of accreditation in the hospital setting. The history of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals is a story of the health professions’ commitment to patient care of high quality in the 20th century. According to Dr. Ernest Codman, founder of the accreditation system, which would enable hospitals to track every patient it treat long enough to determine whether or not the treatment was effective. If not, the hospital would figure out how to prevent similar failures in the future

In order for a hospital or facility to gain accreditation from the Joint Commission, there are several areas of requirement that the hospital or facility must meet. Nightingale Community Hospital has met the requirements in the following areas; Accreditation participation requirements, this requirement is important to maintain compliance in this area due to the fact that a this requirement must be maintained throughout the entire time of the hospital having accreditation, Emergency Management, this

result of the care received in a hospital or other medical facility. While these infections can often be easily treated while the patient is still at the hospital, the incidences of these infections can have significant and lasting impacts on patients and the hospital itself, even resulting in a patient’s death if the infection is not detected and treated appropriately. Since these infections occur while patients are under the care of professionals and during hospital stays, it is imperative that all

Chapter 1 Introduction and Background 1.1 Introduction According to Myers (2011), Hospital Accreditation is a self-assessment process carried out by health care bodies to determine the level of performance by the set standards. The process of hospital accreditation not only sets the standards for operation but also provides and support to the stakeholders on how to improve the performance. Although the accreditation bodies set the standards of service, there is little evidence supporting the credibility

standardized could force provider to follow protocol. The strengthen approach to process improvement through focus on quality care in the hospital and educating health care professionals on teamwork and strict regulations can help reduced the autonomy of health care professionals. But the barrier of too much autonomy cannot be overcome when teamwork is not extended across hospital wards or the departments. René Amalberti, Yves Auroy, Don Berwick, and Paul Barach (2005) stated that the increase in pressure

In 2003, as an outcome of all the sentinel events reported to the Joint commission lead to the creation of the “The Universal protocol for preventing wrong site, wrong procedures, and wrong person surgery” (Mulloy & Hughes 2008). So, one of the ways that could have potentially prevented the situation from happening at the first place was implementing the universal protocol procedure. According to the protocol the conduction of proper pre as well as post-operating procedures are extremely mandatory

misidentification. NPGS 01.01.01: Identifying Patients Correctly In 2003, The Joint Commission made one of their first goals to improve the accuracy of identifying patients to reduce or eliminate patient identification errors. This continues to be an accreditation requirement. Their recommendations to do this are to use at least two patient identifiers when administering medications, and when providing treatments or procedures. Acceptable identifiers may be the individual’s name, an assigned identification

Work Place Distractions Lead to Deadly Outcomes Effective Ways to Reduce Medication Errors in the Health Care Setting Lincoln University Suzanne Norman-Ybarra  One of the greatest fears of any nurse is harming or killing a patient by making a critical medication error. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports that a person dies accidently every day from a medication error and approximately 1.3 million sustain an injury from medication errors (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2016)

practices have been established to drive appropriate care for this intervention. Almost all patients that are admitted into the acute care setting require peripheral intravenous therapy. PIV therapy is an important factor in the care of patients in the hospital and it is most often used to maintain or correct fluid and electrolyte balances, administer medications, and replace blood or blood products (Ignatavicius and Workman, 2013). PIV therapy is an invasive therapy that requires catheter insertion into

Medication administration is a multi-step process that is handled by multiple healthcare professionals. It begins with the prescription that is transcribed mostly by the physician, then dispensed by the pharmacist, and ends with the administration of the medication by the nurse. Throughout this multi-step process, medication errors can occur at any stage of the medication administration process. As expressed by L. Cloete in “Reducing medication errors in nursing practice,” “One third of the errors