To you advanced degree nurses that like writing all the articles on here, I have a request for an article.
I want to know if accrediting agencies actually help healthcare facilities. For example JACHO: “OurMission: To continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value. “
Do all the JACHO nit picky crazy regulations actually help quality or has it gotten to the point that accreditation organizations gotten over zealous with regulation and box checking that patient care is actually worsening even though charting and other administrative measures are showing high marks
Are we being nit picked apart about measures that have minimal effect while unquantifiable direct care measures, due to the inability to consistently be able to quantify and identify them, being ignored and not valued solely because there is no way to measure for them or just the face that they are not on the ‘list’ of things to monitor?
I feel like healthcare is becoming the ‘wanna be’ field. Where we are more often posers for good care through over charting but actual care and facility staff sanity has gone by the wayside. I don’t like my profession...I don’t respect it because we have lost focus due to reimbursement and over regulation. I don’t feel like I can advocate for the good in my career, because while I know TONS of nurses, CNAs, MDs, NPs, etc that care greatly about patients, all of us are stuck doing a *** job because of over regulation and reimbursement strategies. I am all for hospitals making money, and I like rules, but are we over doing it to the point that we are not obtaining the obvious goal of taking good care of people as the minimum standard?