Section 5.13 · Pillar 1 · Clinical Excellence, Patient Safety & Quality of Care
Medical Mission Credentialing and Oversight
Defined clinical, ethical and professional standards for healthcare workers entering Nigeria on medical missions.
The issue
Healthcare workers entering Nigeria for medical missions should meet defined clinical, ethical, physical, and professional standards. Requirements should include license verification, specialty verification, defined scope of practice, health clearance, host institution approval, procedure documentation, local partnership, cultural orientation, patient consent, follow-up planning, and post-mission reporting.
Priority components
What good looks like in this domain, expressed as the components an institution should be able to show.
- 01License verification
- 02Specialty verification
- 03Defined scope of practice
- 04Health clearance
- 05Host institution approval
- 06Procedure documentation
- 07Local partnership
- 08Cultural orientation
- 09Patient consent
- 10Follow-up planning
- 11Post-mission reporting
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.