NAHQ University
This free member benefit offers expert insight and practical guidance on a variety of healthcare quality topics in a quick, 60-minute lunch hour session.
What is a NAHQ Learning Lab?
This is full name of the exam for which NAHQ uses the acronym CPHQ
What is Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality?
Leadership, published works, lectures, presentations, and mentorships are all what related to the NAHQ Fellowship Program?
What are categories of contributions to the profession/field that are considered by the committee
This is a dedicated time period in a calendar year to acknowledge the progress made by healthcare and quality professionals toward improving patient outcomes and to prepare ourselves for the many challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
What is Healthcare Quality Week
This is one of NAHQ's best resources for HQPs who aspire to earn the CPHQ certification as well as those looking for a comprehensive reference for healthcare quality concepts and tools.
What is HQ Solutions: Resource for the Healthcare Quality Professional, Fourth Edition?
First offered in 18 locations to 226 test takers in 1984, this was NAHQ’s first certification program, which eventually morphed into the CPHQ program we have today.
What is Certified Professional in Quality Assurance ?
This award recognizes a NAHQ member who has developed a performance improvement program or initiative for a defined group of patients.
What is the Luc Pelletier Healthcare Quality Award
This is a multi-day event that addresses the most urgent and important issues facing healthcare today, offers a full schedule of educational sessions organized around NAHQ’s twice-validated healthcare quality competency framework.
What is NAHQ Next
This live course, which went fully online in response to COVID in May 2020, is taught by expert instructors including Nancy Claflin, Rose Langdon, and Kathy Clinefelter.
What is the CPHQ Virtual Instructor-Led Review Course?
This was the first year that the CPHQ exam was administered outside of the United States
What is the year 2000
Gain access to critical support throughout your healthcare quality career by joining a network of nearly 9,000 motivated, like-minded professionals.
What is NAHQ Membership
This is a bite size 15min session that focuses on a problem, tool(s) used to solve for the problem results obtained, and a plan to sustain the results and is available on demand viewing during NAHQ Next
What is an HQ Best Practice Tool (or HQ Tool)
This is NAHQ's premier publication for scientific solutions in the pursuit of healthcare quality, which also provides 6 CE credits to NAHQ members annually.
What is the Journal of Healthcare Quality (JHQ)?
This is the timeframe in which each CPHQ credential holder must earn a designated amount of Continuing Education (CE) credits to complete the Recertification process and maintain their credential.
What is every 2 years?
A place where you can connect and interact with like-minded peers as a benefit of being a NAHQ member?
What is the NAHQ Network
This is when NAHQ encourages professionals at all levels working across the continuum of care to submit for presentation at NAHQ Next.
What is the NAHQ call for abstracts
So far in 2022, NAHQ has approved over 600 CPHQ CE credits by vetting a program’s alignment to the Healthcare Quality Competency Framework and best practice learning methodology through this valuable service.
What is the CPHQ CE Approval Program?
This credentialing industry best practice process, conducted every 3 to 5 years, is the process by which NAHQ engages the healthcare quality industry to ensure that the CPHQ Exam is relevant, timely, and consensus based.
What is a Job Task Analysis (JTA).
By completing this NAHQ product, you will contribute to the first and only database that represents the work that healthcare quality professionals are performing across a standardized competency framework.
What is the Professional Assessment
This is a team of approximately 10 individuals that develop, plan and promote NAHQ Next.
What is the Conference Planning Team