Section 5.7 · Pillar 1 · Clinical Excellence, Patient Safety & Quality of Care
Continuing Professional Development, Training and Recertification
Structured, trackable and enforceable CPD covering clinical, safety, ethics, quality and leadership competencies.
The issue
Continuing Professional Development, CPD, should become structured, trackable, and enforceable. CPD should include clinical updates, patient safety, infection prevention, emergency care certification, ethics, communication, quality improvement, documentation, leadership, interdisciplinary teamwork, and maintained proficiency in each clinician's area of practice.
Priority components
What good looks like in this domain, expressed as the components an institution should be able to show.
- 01Clinical updates
- 02Patient safety
- 03Infection prevention
- 04Emergency care certification
- 05Ethics
- 06Communication
- 07Quality improvement
- 08Documentation
- 09Leadership
- 10Interdisciplinary teamwork
- 11Maintained proficiency in area of practice
Implementation
What this domain requires in practice: the standard, the pack, the measurement, the tools and the evidence.
Standards
No approved ASQAT standards have been published for this domain yet. The standards layer is in place so that approved statements can be released without restructuring the platform.
Measurement
Measurement specifications for this domain are being developed. Indicator definitions are published only once the numerator, denominator and data source are agreed.
Measurement frameworkResources
Implementation resources for this domain are currently in development. Approved policies, procedures, checklists and tools will be released through the resource library.
Open the libraryAwaiting approved content
Evidence in practice
No approved implementation evidence has been published for this domain yet. Case studies are published only after review of what was measured and how.