japayson
20th September 2008, 11:23 PM
I am trying to advise my spouse, who is a 25 year veteran RN in a large community hospital.
There are things that go on with policy documents that should not. There are committees assigned to oversight of things such as patient care standards, and do work on policies and standards including final approvals for issue. However, before issue this work is often changed, without any notification to the committee. If someone did not look at the published version online immediately, the authors would not know.
It turns out that there is no document control policy or procedure. It seems that this is not a requirement by Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) under which many hospitals operate. Also hospitals are generally the domain of professionals (Nurses and Physicians) all who have their own standards set externally by licensing and skill certifications. So there is not a lot of defined management chain of command and responsibility.
Can someone make the argument and maybe point to cases or papers about how and why document control and document change control benefits an organization from the view of management and deployment of management decisions, policies, and outlook?
jp
There are things that go on with policy documents that should not. There are committees assigned to oversight of things such as patient care standards, and do work on policies and standards including final approvals for issue. However, before issue this work is often changed, without any notification to the committee. If someone did not look at the published version online immediately, the authors would not know.
It turns out that there is no document control policy or procedure. It seems that this is not a requirement by Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) under which many hospitals operate. Also hospitals are generally the domain of professionals (Nurses and Physicians) all who have their own standards set externally by licensing and skill certifications. So there is not a lot of defined management chain of command and responsibility.
Can someone make the argument and maybe point to cases or papers about how and why document control and document change control benefits an organization from the view of management and deployment of management decisions, policies, and outlook?
jp
