National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards

RUNNING HEAD: NATIONAL SAFETY AND QUALITY HEALTH SERVICE STANDARDS 1
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
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NATIONAL SAFETY AND QUALITY HEALTH SERVICE STANDARDS 2
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.
INTRODUCTION
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare together with the
Australian government, the clinical experts as well as patients came up with the National Safety
and Quality Health Service standards. The main objective behind this was to shield the general
public from harm as well as improving on the overall quality of the healthcare in the country
(Quick, 2013). There are eight in total and they include clinical governance, blood management
standards, comprehensive care standards, partnering with consumers, medication safety standard,
preventing and controlling health associated infection, communicating for patient safety and
finally recognizing and responding to acute deterioration standards. For the purposes of the
interview however, I will only demonstrate an understanding of the two of them which include
Clinical Governance and Blood management standard.
Clinical Governance
Clinical governance is a branch of the NSQHS whereby health care institutions are
accountable for continuous improvement in the quality of their services then provide an
environment in which there would be excellent clinical care. I have come to realize during my
practice that clinical governance has several elements which include education and training,
clinical auditing, openness, Risk management, information management, clinical effectiveness
and finally research and development (Duffy, 2013). During my nursing practicum, there was a
scenario I came across whereby a certain patient was interested in retrieving his medical
information that he had been subjected to the treatment.The Health Information Records
department easily retrieved the data that had been stored on the computer seven years ago.After