Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for the Care Continuum presents brand new accreditation standards for international health care organizations providing care and services to individuals either at home or in institutional settings for chronic care, rehabilitation, and end of life care. The new standards meet a growing demand for an effective evaluation of care and services outside acute care and in movement across the care continuum over a lifetime. Developed by an expert multinational and multidisciplinary task force through extensive review and testing, these consensus standards reflect new models of care and service delivery emerging in many nations.

This manual includes JCI's updated requirements for home care organizations effective 1 July 2012. All of the standards and accreditation policies and procedures are included, giving home care organizations around the world the information they need to pursue or maintain JCI accreditation and maximize patient-safe care. The manual contains Joint Commission International's (JCI's) standards, intent statements, and measurable elements for home care organizations, including patient-centered and organizational requirements.

This manual includes JCI's updated requirements for long term care organizations effective 1 July 2012. All of the standards and accreditation policies and procedures are included, giving long term care organizations around the world the information they need to pursue or maintain JCI accreditation and maximize resident-safe care. The manual contains Joint Commission International's (JCI's) standards, intent statements, and measurable elements for long term care organizations, including resident- centered and organizational requirements.

Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospitals, 4th Edition provides the basis for accreditation of hospitals throughout the world, supplying organizations with the information they need to pursue or maintain patient safety, performance improvement, and accredited status starting 1 January 2011. Important improvements to this edition include the following: * Improve the Safety of High-Alert Medications, A International Patient Safety Goal 3 (IPSG.3), covers all high-alert medications used by the organization. *The Access to Care and Continuity of CareA chapter (ACC) has new requirements on the need to stabilize emergency patients prior to transfer to another organization and the need to strengthen the integration of outpatient information for patients provided ongoing care from multiple clinics. *The Patient and Family RightsA chapter (PFR) introduces a requirement that the organization offers or facilitates second opinions when requested by the patient. *The Assessment of PatientsA chapter (AOP) includes a new requirement regarding timely reporting of critical laboratory test results.*The Quality Improvement and Patient SafetyA chapter (QPS) has expanded requirements on comprehensive risk management framework as a tool for the reduction of adverse events and two new standards are intended to focus organizations on the quality of the data they collect and use in their improvement activities. *The Prevention and Control of InfectionsA chapter (PCI) expands requirements regarding the reuse of single-use devices. *The Governance, Leadership, and DirectionA chapter (GLD) calls for greater oversight of organizational contracts and independent practitioners, as well as establishing a framework for ethical management to ensure that patient care is provided within business, financial, ethical, and legal norms and that protects patients, their families, and employees

This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement’s founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, research, and policy-making activities that marked the evolution and major advances of patient safety in this time span. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, this book not only comprehensively details how and why human and systems errors too often occur in the process of providing health care, it also promotes an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of patient safety, including how they were influenced by today’s modern safety sciences and systems theory and design. Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US. Making Healthcare Safe is divided into four parts: I. In the Beginning describes the research and theory that defined patient safety and the early initiatives to enhance it. II. Institutional Responses tells the stories of the efforts of the major organizations that began to apply the new concepts and make patient safety a reality. Most of these stories have not been previously told, so this account becomes their histories as well. III. Getting to Work provides in-depth analyses of four key issues that cut across disciplinary lines impacting patient safety which required special attention. IV. Creating a Culture of Safety looks to the future, marshalling the best thinking about what it will take to achieve the safe care we all deserve. Captivatingly written with an “insider’s” tone and a major contribution to the clinical literature, this title will be of immense value to health care professionals, to students in a range of academic disciplines, to medical trainees, to health administrators, to policymakers and even to lay readers with an interest in patient safety and in the critical quest to create safe care.

Provides the basis for accreditation of hospitals throughout the world. Joint Commission International (JCI) standards define the performance expectations, structures, and functions that must be in place for a hospital to be accredited by JCI. The effective date of the 7th Edition is 1 January 2021 (extended from the originally announced date of 1 October 2020), which means all surveys that begin on or after this date will be surveyed under the 7th Edition.

The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.