Health care providers may volunteer to be accredited by an external body. The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid provide an updated list of approved accrediting organizations. For this discussion, we are focusing on the acute care hospital. Below are fourteen of the categories in The Joint Commission Standards Manual and accreditation process topics. The topics for this discussion are assigned by students’ last names. See the chart below for your assigned topic.
Topics Student Assignment Based upon Last Name
National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) Student last name begins with L
For your assigned topic, access The Joint Commission Standards Manual and The Joint Commission’s publication The Source. To access this information follow the steps below:
From the homepage of the Ashford University library, click on Find Articles & More in the purple bar near the top of the page. Next, take the following steps:
Click on Databases by Subject
Click on Health & Medicine
Click on Joint Commission E-dition for the Standards Manual. Review the standard assigned to you.
Next, go back to Health & Medicine in the AU Library. Then click on Joint Commission: The Source link located just below the Joint Commission E-dition link. Do not access The Source via the Joint Commission E-dition link or it will ask you to pay a fee.
To select two articles, do one of the following:
Select two journal articles from The Sourcethat were published within the past 5-8 years pertaining to your assigned topic. Please use The Source tip sheetPreview the document for guidance to find what you need through The Source.
Select two journal articles from either Google Scholar or the Ashford Library Databases.
Once you have chosen two articles related to your assigned Standard, identify, and summarize the two articles chosen. In addition, your response should reflect the TJC Standard, how it is utilized, and why it is important in health care. Include any best practice mentioned, and discuss at least one new concept that you learned from the articles.
Initial Post: Your initial post should be 250 to 300 words. Cite and reference your two articles in APA format as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Introduction to APA (Links to an external site.).
Guided Response: After reading your fellow classmates’ posts, provide responses to at least two of your peers by Day 7 by answering the questions listed below. Your guided response posts should be a minimum of five well-developed sentences.
How does your assigned standard relate to your classmate’s assigned standard?
Give at least two examples of how they tie together.