Accreditation

Accreditation Resources

Preparing for Hospital Accreditation Resources

• Education and Resources for Hospital Accreditation – Comprehensive Care Standard and end-of-life care (2MB pdf)

Hospital Case Stories

The following case stories provide examples of other hospitals' approaches to meeting the NSQHS Standards:

• Auditing (899kb pdf)
• Establishment of Committee to support quality End-of-Life Care (793kb pdf)
• Development of End-of-Life Goals of Care Form (771kb pdf)

Meeting Comprehensive Care Standard End-of-Life Care Actions

• 5.15: The health service organisation has processes to identify patients who are at the end of life (390kb pdf)
• 5.16: The health service organisation providing end-of-life care has processes to provide clinicians with access to specialist palliative care advice (367kb pdf)
• 5.17: The health service organisation has process to ensure that current advance care plans (407kb pdf):
  • a. Can be received from patients
  • b. Are documents in the patient’s health care record.
• 5.18: The health service organisation provides access to supervision and support of the workforce providing end-of-life care (517kb pdf)
• 5.19: The health service organisation has processes for routinely reviewing the safety and quality of end-of-life care that is provided against the planned goals of care (375kb pdf)
• 5.20: Clinicians support patients, carers and families to make shared decisions about end-of-life care (485kb pdf)

Videos, Presentations and Fact Sheets

Videos

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The importance of goals of care
Angie Dalli, ACSQHC
 

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Providing workforce supervision and support
Jeanette Lacey, EOL Care Nurse Practitioner

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Latest accreditation outcomes - Comprehensive Care Standard
Angie Dalli, ACSQHC

Presentations

Harnessing patient’s with palliative care needs, and their carers’ feedback to drive improvement work within the Australian hospital setting (2MB pdf). Claudia Virdun – Queensland University of technology

Fact Sheets

Self-Care Resources Fact Sheet (1.4MB pdf)

How EOLE can support meeting the NSQHS Standards (1.2MB)

Accreditation Workshop

EOLE Accreditation Workshop - Takeaway Messages (543kb pdf)