Accreditation Basics
This national body oversees accreditation for health and social service organizations in Canada.
What is Accreditation Canada?
Accreditation bodies require organizations to track and report these unintended events that could have caused harm.
What are near misses?
We are advancing health with heart, empowering communities to thrive.
What is SE's mission statement?
A retention initiative that allows our staff obtain financial aid to pursue further education while continuing to work.
What is the TAP program?
We demonstrate engagement by collecting and analyzing this type of feedback directly from clients and families.
What is the PREM survey?
Accreditation Canada uses this flagship program to assess organizations against Health Standards Organization (HSO) criteria.
What is Qmentum?
This universal safety initiative requires staff to confirm patient identity using two identifiers.
What is patient identification?
A document where we track clinical metrics and determine actions to improve our performance.
What is the CQIP?
This group at SE Health gives staff a voice, promotes communication with management, and organizes events to recognize and support colleagues.
What is a staff association?
The forum at which client voice is incorporated into clinical practices.
What is the Clinical Policy and Documentation Committee?
Accreditation Canada aligns with this philosophy, ensuring care is centered around patients and families.
What is Patient and Family-Centred Care?
Surveyors may ask to see quarterly reports on these infection rates.
What are healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)?
A document where we record the quarterly education each staff has completed.
What is the Quarterly Education Tracker?
The mechanism in which SE Health provides just-in-time clinical education.
What is a Coaching Visit?
These reflect a client’s individual choices, values, and priorities that guide how care should be delivered.
What are client preferences?
Accreditation surveys often check compliance with these written organizational rules that guide practice.
What are policies and procedures?
What is a Chart Audit?
This structured approach helps guide decision-making by balancing values like autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.
What is an ethics framework?
The yearly process through which staff review certain Policies and Procedures and attest to certain requirements.
What is the annual declaration?
This type of evaluation looks beyond physical symptoms to include emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental factors in understanding a client’s overall health.
What is a holistic assessment?
Accreditation Canada surveyors use this method to follow a patient’s journey through care.
What is tracer methodology?
When this metric increases, it is confounded with increased events when in reality it represents improved safety culture.
What is the total number of reported risk events?
The procedure that tells us what to do in case of a fire. We should be doing drills.
What is a Code Red?
An Accreditation Canada requirement that is a tool that assess staff satisfaction, psychology safety, patient safety culture, equity and inclusion.
What is the Global Workforce Survey? [today is the last day, please do it :) ]
The tool used at SE to enable communication with clients in their language of preference.
What is VOYCE translation services?