Question

The text discusses the contributions made to patient safety by The Joint Commission (TJC).

1. Provide the history around The Joint Commission and how it affects patient safety.

2. How and when did the patient safety goals come into existence? Why do you think they were written? How effective have they been as a whole in reducing negative outcomes?

3. Select a 2018 goal from the Hospital Accreditation Program that has either personal or professional meaning to you. Why did you choose it? How long has this goal been in existence? How effective has it been to date?

4. Define the elements of the goal you have selected. For each element, describe:

What actions/outcomes was TJC trying to correct with this goal?

How it can be implemented?

What tools do you use to measure it?

Who is responsible for implementation and measurement?

What would success look like?

Answer 1

• the joint commission interternational is nothing but a non profit organisation of united states that acrediates hospitals t provide the standardasied care to the patient previously tjc is also konwn as JCAHO and JCAH it grew from the efforts of ERNEST CODMAN to hospital reform based on outcome management

The joint commission on accrediation of hospitals was formed in 1951 by merging hospital standardisation programme with other programmes and renamed as the joint commission on accrediation of health care organisation but it came into its action when the federal government decidedthat they are meeting the criteria for meeting the standerded of patients care and their accridated hospitals have an official impact when the MIPPA act was removed the joint commission was the subject to center for providing the madicaid and madicare services requirmemt for organisation seeking accrediation in 2007 the organisation was renamed as the joint commission with a tag line helping healthecare organisation will help the patient the joint commission international mainly focuses on three things

• patient safety measurements
• spread of information
• measurment of information
• introduction to public policies

the main mission of joint commission international was to continuously improve health care for the public with other organisations by evaluating their efforts and inspiring them to from to the excel point to proivde cre to the patient that is highest in quality and value

ans 2 ) GOALS OF TJC it updates itsgoals on the yearly basis according to the requrements of the organisations and the patient and all these goals are transparent to everybody in this world firstly the goa;s for patient safety were introduced in 2002 but they came into force in the year 2003 they were also known as NPSG the specific area to focus of NPSG was the patient safety the panal which decide is known as patient safety advisory group that includes nurses , physicians ,pharmasists ,risk manager ,clincal engineer and other professionals who have alots of experience in patient safety issues .for example in 2009 catheter related blood stream infection and surgical site infections were included into this

1. identify the patient correctly
2. improve the effective communication
3. improve the safety of high alart medication
4. ensue safe surgery
5. reduce the risk of health care associated infection
6. reduce the risk of patient harm by reducing fall