Performance Standards and Guidelines

Paper Summary:

This paper assesses the use of performance indicators within the medical field. The paper provides a general overview of what is currently being used. The paper then evaluates the positives and negative of these current systems. The paper concludes by discussing possible improvements in performance in the medical field.

Outline:
Standard I: Quality of Practice
Standard II: Professional Practice Evaluation
Standard III: Education
Standard IV: Ethics
Standard V: Collaboration
Standard VII Resource Utilization
IV. Technology

From the Paper:

"Health care performance indicators have been developed by different local and international medical organisations such as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the Health Care Financing Administration in North America. The Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates, Inc. for example, has developed guidelines for nurses. These guidelines focus on how they are to perform their duties and responsibilities. Guidelines are based on current practices in the field, along with published data about it. Standards of Clinical Nursing Practice are divided into Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Performance. These standards, based on the American Nurses Association (ANA) format, have been structured to be all-inclusive. They allow for the evaluation of all levels of nursing care provided in a variety of settings and describe the collaborative nature of gastroenterology, hepatology, and endoscopy practice. (sgna ,2005) These standards could assist in making sure the patients receive care from knowledgeable and skilled nurses and they are receiving the necessary attention they ought to have (Smith 2001)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Boyce, N 2002, 'Potential pitfalls of healthcare performance indicators', eMJA :The Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 177, no. 5, pp. 229-230, viewed 29 April 2006, http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/177_05_020902/boy10347_fm.html
• State of Wisconsin Department of Administration n.d., Consultant performance evaluation process DOA-4511 P (R03/00), viewed 29 April 2006, http://www.doa.state.wi.us/docs_view2.asp?docid=357
• P10-44, S n.d., Success with cache: clinical analyst depends on cache high performance for data 'right at her fingertips', viewed 29 April 2006, http://www.intersystems.com/cache/testimonials/success/forsyth.html
• Smith, AE, Nugent, CD, Sarabjot, SA & McClean, S 2001, Medical decision support systems: the objectivist evaluation core faculty of informatics, viewed 29 April 2006, http://www.ailab.si/idamap/idamap2001/papers/smith.pdf
• Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates, Inc 2005, Standards of clinical nursing practice and role delineation statements, viewed 29 April 2006, http://www.sgna.org/Resources/guidelines/guideline8.cfm

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