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PNUR-203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Quality Assurance, Medication Therapy Management, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

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11 May 2023
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Centennial College
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PNUR-203
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Week 4 learning outcomes: compare accreditation, quality assurance, and continuous quality improvement. Accreditation: accreditation provides you with an independent, third-party assessment of your organizations using standards built upon best practices used and validated by organizations just like yours around the world. The action or process of officially recognizing someone as having a particular status or being qualified to perform a particular activity. Provides external peer review to assess the quality of healthcare settings" services based on standards of excellence. Medication management, leadership + management, infection prevention and control. Increases accountability of organizations to quality improvement. The organizations that take part in our program choose to do so because they have first- hand knowledge of the contribution accreditation makes in improving quality, reducing risk, and strengthening accountability. ** note: quality management and measuring effectiveness of care and patient outcomes are necessary for accreditation of healthcare organizations.

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describe specific initiatives, laws, and accreditation standards that can be leveraged to improve healthcare quality and enhance performance improvement

note: Working managers may complete this exercise based on the practices of their own organizations. Students may complete this exercise based on the practices of a current or previous employer. Instructions 1. Select and describe the boundaries of the system of interest; the term “organization” will be used to refer to this selected system. You may select a team, a department, a small organization (e.g., an office practice), or an entire organization. 2. To familiarize yourself with the criteria, review the section called “Category and Item Descriptions” in the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence available from: www.nist.gov/baldrige/ publications/hc_criteria.cfm 3. The Organizational Assessment Worksheet provides a general description of the criteria category followed by selected questions from the respective 2011–2012 Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence category. 4. Based on the system selected in question 1, write a brief reply to the selected questions. Briefly describe your organization, including its services; size; geographic community; key patient or customer groups; and current facilities, equipment, and technology, as well as the number of patients or clients it serves. Briefly describe your organization’s key challenges and your organization’s current performance improvement system. How do senior leaders deploy your organization’s vision and values through your leadership system, to the workforce, to key suppliers and partners, and to patients and stakeholders as appropriate? How do senior leaders encourage frank two-way communication throughout the organization? How does your organization conduct strategic planning? Summarize your organization’s action plans, how they are deployed, and key action plan performance measures or indicators. How do you identify patient, stakeholder, and market requirements for service offerings? How do you build and manage relationships with patients and stakeholders to meet their requirements and exceed their expectations at each stage of their relationship with you? What are your key organizational performance measures? How do you use these data and information to support organizational decision making and innovation? How do you assess your workforce capability and capacity needs, including skills, competencies, and staffing levels? How do you address workplace environmental factors to ensure and improve workplace health, safety, and security? How do you design and innovate your work processes to meet all the key requirements? How do you improve your work processes to improve healthcare outcomes, to achieve better performance, to reduce variability, and to improve healthcare services? Provide data for one key measure or indicator of healthcare outcomes that is important to your patients and stakeholders. Provide data for one key measure or indicator of patient or stakeholder satisfaction. Provide data for one key measure or indicator of financial performance. Provide data for one key measure or indicator related to operational performance. Provide data for one key measure related to achieving legal, regulatory, and accreditation requirements. Prioritizing Improvement Opportunities 1. Review the responses to the organizational assessment questions. 2. Note any questions for which you could not provide a response (i.e., the organization does not have a defined process or approach to address the topic of the question). 3. Review the organizational performance results data. 4. Select one or more measures that demonstrate less than desirable results. 5. Select one item from question 2 or 4 as the performance gap for the performance improvement exercise .

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(Organizations associated with the public accountingprofession) Several private and public sectororganizations are associated with the profession. Listed below areactivities pertaining to these organizations.

  1. License individuals to practice as CPAs.
  2. Promulgate GAAP.
  3. Issue Statements on Auditing Standards.
  4. Regulate the distribution and trading of securities offered forpublic sale.
  5. Establish its own code of professional ethics.
  6. Issue Statements of Financial Accounting Standards.
  7. Impose mandatory continuing education as a requirement forrenewal of license to practice as a CPA.
  8. Issue disclosure requirements for companies under itsjurisdiction that may exceed GAAP.
  9. Issue auditing interpretations.
  10. Cooperate with the AICPA in areas of mutual interest such ascontinuing professional education and ethics enforcement.
  11. Take punitive action against an independent auditor.
  12. Establish accounting principles for state and localgovernmental entities.
  13. Establish GAAS.
  14. Suspend or revoke a CPA's license to practice.
  15. Establish quality control standards.
  16. Operate as proprietorships, partnerships, or professionalcorporations.
  17. Issue government auditing standards.
  18. Administer federal tax laws.

Required

Indicate the organization ororganizations associated with each activity