A Comparison Between Accreditation And Certification

This semester, you will have the opportunity to construct a family genogram for informational purposes. You will develop a genogram, documenting information from both sides of your family (maternal and paternal) for 4 generations starting with yourself. The genogram may be hand drawn or you may use a computer drawn one. (You can download a basic program from www.genopro.com/free or from http://www.progenygenetics.com/students/ ) Your

As I embarked on this assignment I was unsure how to begin and what stories to tell. I did not know if I should commence with how my family came to America, my family tree, or a fascinating story about how my grandparents met. In order to complete this assignment I convened with my grandfather, Earl W. Stafford Sr., who knows a lot about our family history, to learn as much as I could.

To start my family origin paper we have to go way back to 1976 when my parents met in Alamo, North Dakota; a town of about 200 people in the northwestern part of the state. They met while going through school playing sports, mainly basketball. Both were pretty good at the sport and won some awards and had chances to play more but decided to get married and start a family instead. Both grew up around the whole farming scene. My mom actually lived on a farm growing up and also as she started her own family. My dad lived in the small town but his grandpa had a farm not far from where he grew up and also helped a lot of the local

The Joint Commission defines the Periodic Performance Review as an assessment tool created to assist health organizations improve and monitor their performance throughout the year. This tool focuses on the processes that influence patient care and safety while providing the structure for unremitting standards fulfillment. Nightingale Community Hospital is compliant with most standards as set forth by the Joint Commission. However, upon inspection and in an effort to stay focused on compliance, our standards committee has located a few discrepancies that must be resolved to maintain our accreditation with the Joint Commission.

The Joint Commission. (2015, June 3). Accreditation Requirements. Retrieved from The Joint Commission E-edition: http://e-dition.jcrinc.com/MainContent

The acknowledgment experts (CA) rely on Certificate Repositories (CRLs) to make and convey testaments and these CRLs are promptly accessible to all the declaration clients as well. To help CA to join existing looked after frameworks, they ought to have the capacity to demand records from their parent CAs. CAs additionally is in a place of making cross-authentications to have the capacity to bolster cross-accreditations with different CAs as permitted by the arrangements representing them. CAs without anyone else's input incorporates both a testament holder work and a customer work.

procedure site; 3. A time-out is performed before the procedure. Each of these areas are critical in preventing wrong-site, wrong-procedure events from happening. The Universal Protocol sets a standard for hospitals by outlining specific principles and strategies, while encouraging teamwork and consistency among all hospital staff.

To meet the Board’s educational requirements, the applicant must hold a baccalaureate or higher degree from an accredited, Board-recognized U.S. college or university. Institutions that do not qualify include community colleges, two-year colleges, correspondence schools, continuing education courses, or technical schools. An official transcript must be submitted with the AOI for verification.

Origins of a family have meaning and history. By keeping track of family relations also known as a family tree it can allow us to keep records of the past. The Edwards family tree shows great record from the early 1700 's to the mid 1800 's. This family tree demonstrates when a person was baptized; when they got married; and when they passed away. The Edwards family chart show the different relations of marriages and fertility rate from today 's society. From the chart we can determine that the Edwards family show a different demography compared to todays society. This is because life expectancy was shorter; families were larger; and finally marriages were happening at a young age.

The joint commission is a “non-for-profit organization the joint commission accredits and certifies nearly 21,000 healthcare organizations and programs in the United States. Joint Commission accreditation and certification are recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to meeting certain performance standards, and their mission is to keep improving healthcare for the public.” (https://www.jointcommission.org)

RAFT –Task 2 Root Cause Analysis A-1. Sentinel Event A sentinel event is an event that happens expectantly in a healthcare facility that could result possible death, physical or mental injury to patients unrelated to natural causes of the patients illness as defined by Joint Commission (www.joint commission.org). On the afternoon of Thursday, September 14, at approximately 12:30 p.m. a ‘Code Pink’ (child abduction alert) was called when a minor child/patient, Tina, was discharged to the care of her father without the knowledge of her mother with whom she was admitted with. Tina was registered into the hospital system by Katie Jessup, hospital registrar, who entered all proper demographics and all proper insurance information into the

Even though Nightingale Hospital has a very detailed Site Identification and Verification Protocol, some areas do not meet JHACO’s standards. Updating the Universal Protocol and Preprocedure Hand-Off Check sheet will not only bring the facility into compliance but may eliminate any potential failure in communication between patient, caregiver and provider.

There are a great many different rules and regulations that make up the greater part of our daily lives. Often we become accustomed to many of these rules and regulations. Speed limits are there to keep people safe, crossing signals to let us know when we can safely cross a street and even there are laws in place to keep people from filling the same prescriptions at different pharmacies. These regulations and laws are there primarily for safety. There are, as well many laws and regulations in place for professionals, which similarity are in place for protection. In Arizona (as well as most states) the regulatory and credentialing process is there for both the protection of the counselor as well as the client.

I was looking forward to completing this assignments, as I was able to connect with family members and gain a better understanding more of how my heritage and culture has helped to shape my career development. I did not find difficulties constructing my genogram until having to document my grandparents careers. Growing up, I knew that my grandparents owned farms because I spend a considerable amount of time playing on the expanse of land. However, I began to realized that I was not sure if that had always been their occupation. I did have to call my father to get a bit more information about my grandparents and their occupations. I was not far off from what I believed to be true. However, I did realized that both of my grandmothers were homemakers until my aunts and uncles were school aged.

The committee reviewed the current procedure when a provider indicates no hospital privileges or board certification. The current process has the credentialing specialist follow-up with a provider until a response is received regarding 1) “No” response to board certification; 2) no answer to either board certification or hospital privileges; and 3) Admission process for providers with no hospital privileges. Since neither area are requirements for a provider to be a panel member, it was decided to have the specialists only make one attempt to obtain a response or obtain additional information. If no response is received, “NA” will be placed on the log and indication that an attempt was made to obtain information but no response received will