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ACCREDITATION AND PATIENT SAFETY 1

Accreditation and patient safety

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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.

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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.

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