MAINTAINING STANDARDS

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Activity 3

Maintaining Standards

Choose a topic and discuss the standards in detail.  Analyze how these concepts/ processes influence the standards in your organization, including staffing, decision making or workplace issues, both positively and negatively.   

Affordable Care Act

Agency for Healthcare, Quality and Research

Benchmarking Tools and Organizations

Certification for Nursing

Electronic Health Care Record

Electronic prescribing / Telehealth

• Institute for Healthcare, Quality Improvement
• Lean Project Management
• Outcomes Management 
• Patient Care Pathways
• Population Health Management 
• Practice Guidelines
• Quality Management
• Risk Management
• Sentinel Event Management
• Standards of Nursing Practice
• Standards of Patient Care

Structure Standards

TJC Accreditation

• Utilization Management
• Value based care
• Support your discussion and opinions with facts and relevant examples from personal nursing practice.
• Reading and Resources
• Review chapter 13 & 23 in Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2021). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: Theory and application. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
• Aroh, D., Colella, J., Douglas, C., & Eddings, A. (2015). An example of translating value-based purchasing into value-based care. Urologic Nursing, 35(2), 61-74. doi:10.7257/1053-816X.2015.35.2.61
• Kizer, K. W. (2015). Clinical integration: A cornerstone for population health management. Journal of Healthcare Management, 60(3), 164-168.
• Spruce, L. (2015). Back to basics: Implementing evidence-based practice. AORN Journal, 101(1), 106-112. doi:10.1016/j.aorn.2014.08.009
• Visit the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 

Visit the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

Visit The Joint Commission  

Visit Affordable Care Act