assessments program during the accreditation process. Higher Learning Commission Defining Learning Assessments HLC defines learning assessment structure in terms of their stated criteria and core standards. Evidence listed for these core components provides a more detailed definition of learning assessments. As of 1 January 2013, HLC’s accreditation process will be built on 5 criteria. HLC directly addresses learning assessments in 2 of its 5 accreditation criteria. Criteria #3- Teaching
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Financial Implications on Quality of Care Introduction There are many factors that can influence the quality provided by an organization. Conversely, it can also be be said that the quality of the services of an organization can have an influence over other factors as well. In this module, we look at how quality of care provided by an organization can carry major financial implications; that is, the importance of quality on the finances of an organization. In Module 4 we talked about how necessary
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Medication Administration Errors A medication error is commonly defined as a deviation from the physician’s medication order in the patient record or an error occurring in the medication-use process. (Choo, Hutchinson, & Bucknall, 2010, p. 854) The review of literature in the article “Nurses’ Role in Medication Safety” attempts to identify the challenges of medication safe delivery in the clinical practice by reviewing multiple studies. The article authors define two different approaches to viewing
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Annually, millions of Americans receive high-quality health care that restores their health to the best it can be and allows them to carry on functioning in society at their optimum best. Unfortunately this story does not resonate with some Americans who are far from happy about the level of care they received while sick. Quality problems are present in wide variation across board when talking delivery of health care services, in some instance, the issue could be with underutilization of a particular
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Medication Administration Errors A medication error is commonly defined as a deviation from the physician’s medication order in the patient record or an error occurring in the medication-use process. (Choo, Hutchinson, & Bucknall, 2010, p. 854) The review of literature in the article “Nurses’ Role in Medication Safety” attempts to identify the challenges of medication safe delivery in the clinical practice by reviewing multiple studies. The article authors define two different approaches to viewing
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A1. Sentinel Event On the evening of September 14, 2011 a sentinel event occurred at Nightingale Hospital. According to Joint Commission, a sentinel event is characterized as an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious injury mother proceeded physical), or the risk thereof (http:www.jointcommission.org). A three year old child was accompanied by her mother for an outpatient procedure scheduled for September 1, 20111. The mother proceeded to register the child for the procedure and was provided
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Regulating and Accreditating Agencies In Nursing Education January 21, 2013 Regulatory agencies and accreditation bodies have been used to guide and enforce nursing practice and education for years. Nursing practice regulation was started to protect nurses and the communities they serve in. Today, the primary purpose of regulation has remained virtually unchanged, but now “also relates to defining nursing practices as well as nursing education” (Flook, 2003, p. 161)
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430 October 22, 2012 This paper will better inform how the Joint Commission Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) came into existence. The JCAHO is responsible for the accreditation of healthcare organizations nationwide. JCAHO’s goal is to ensure that specific guidelines are meet and that the organizations operate in a safe manner for their patient’s and its employees. The Joint Commissioned Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) came along side of the American College
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Paige Weber Overcoming Barriers In Evidence-Based Practice University of Louisiana at Lafayette Overcoming Barriers in Evidence-Based Practice All healthcare organizations will experience some kind of change over time. When it comes to using evidence- based practice within a healthcare system, deciding on what to implement is the easy part. The hard part is implementing the practice and making it stick. There are many barriers for why implementing EBP is not easily attainable by nurses. Some of
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To: Board of Directors of Middlefield Hospital From: Vitalina Tatach Date: August 15, 2015 Re: Evaluation and Recommendations for Improvement I have been diligently working on reassessing our present situation with loss of revenue and other bellow described weakness. After thoroughly studying past years’ reports, I came up with a few thoughts that I would like to share with you which should make positive income and decline out quality assurance problems. With that in mind, I came up with
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