licenses to practice and also earn accreditation. Accreditation is usually a voluntary program that external peer reviewers that are trained in certain subjects evaluate a healthcare organization’s compliance and compare it to the standards that have already been established (Alkhenizan & Shaw, 2011). If an organization is accredited it represents that the agency is credible and reputable and it is dedicated to continuous compliance (ACHC, 2015). Accreditation is voluntary but it is so important
AFT Task 1: Accreditation Audit Assessment Code: AFT2 Kyle Cluff 000505604 09/29/2015 Nelda Turner A Executive Summary Nightingale Community Hospital is a healthcare organization that prides itself on how it treats you personally. In order to help Nightingale continue the extraordinary care it provides, we partner with the Joint Commission to help mitigate breakdowns and failures, with the hopes to continuously improve the care we provide to our patients. I firmly believe that lessons
the clinical governance framework for my workplace was challenging and time consuming without computer access and only hard copy policy and procedure manuals. Clinical governance is summerised through the manuals, to ensure compliance of the 44 accreditation standards (Australian Aged Care Quality Agency, 2014) and legal requirements, but as Knight, Kenny and Endacott (2015) discuss, while
efficacy of the organization's patient safety and quality system. 3.3 Benefits of JCI Accreditation and Certification Accreditation is a long haul process that supplicate commitment. There are amassment of development work leading up to a survey and then subsequent performance and amendment work is done to ascertain those accreditation standards are maintained. Organizations that achieve and maintain JCI accreditation are dedicated to providing their patients the best level of care possible. The types