Quality Management
What is Quality Dietetics? Do RDs Practice It? How Do Dietetics Practitioners Know the Activities They Are Authorized to Perform?
Quality is about providing safe, effective, patient/resident/client-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable dietetics care. These six dimensions of quality are outlined in a report by the committee on the Quality of Health Care in America. Overall, the report makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap, recommends a redesign of the American health care system, and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. The report urges these health care constituencies to commit to a national statement of purpose for the health care system as a whole. In making this commitment, the parties would accept as their explicit purpose “to continually reduce the burden of illness, injury, and disability, and to improve the health and functioning of the people of the United States.
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SOP/SOPP for Extended Care Settings
Pioneer Network-LTC New Dining Practice Standards
Pioneer Network has announced that its Food and Dining Clinical Standards Task Force: A Rothschild Regulatory Task Force has finalized new Dining Practice Standards agreed to by the following twelve national clinical standard-setting associations:
- American Association for Long Term Care Nursing (AALTCN)
- American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordination (AANAC)
- Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (previously American Dietetic Association (ADA))
- American Medical Directors Association (AMDA)
- American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
- American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP)
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
- Dietary Managers Association (DMA)
- Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA)
- Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN)
- National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration in Long Term Care (NADONA/LTC)
- National Gerontological Nursing Association (NGNA)
Pioneer Network-LTC New Dining Practice Standards (8-26-2011)