{"id":49139,"date":"2022-10-04T16:02:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pharma-trend.com\/en\/nahqs-new-research-reveals-missing-component-to-advancing-healthcare-quality-safety-and-system-sustainability\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:02:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:02:02","slug":"nahqs-new-research-reveals-missing-component-to-advancing-healthcare-quality-safety-and-system-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pharma-trend.com\/en\/nahqs-new-research-reveals-missing-component-to-advancing-healthcare-quality-safety-and-system-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"NAHQ\u2019s New Research Reveals Missing Component to Advancing Healthcare Quality, Safety, and System Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nGroundbreaking research focused on advancing critical healthcare priorities through expanded competencies for quality and safety workforce development.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#HealthcareQuality<\/a>–The National Association for Healthcare Quality<\/a>\u00ae (NAHQ) this week released groundbreaking research on the advancement of the quality and safety agenda in a new workforce report titled \u201cHealthcare Quality and Safety<\/a><\/b> Workforce Report, New Imperatives for Quality and Safety Mean New Imperatives for Workforce Development.\u201d<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>The research sought to <\/strong>answer the question: \u201cIs today\u2019s healthcare workforce doing the work that will advance clinical priorities of quality, safety, equity, value, and system sustainability?\u201d Findings indicate the answer is no.\n<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cNAHQ has taken ownership of the important issue of workforce readiness for quality and safety,\u201d said Stephanie Mercado, CAE, CPHQ, NAHQ\u2019s chief executive officer. \u201cIn healthcare, the workforce is the biggest lever we have to affect change. NAHQ\u2019s mission is to prepare a coordinated, competent healthcare quality workforce while ensuring that the people working in quality are recognized and valued. This report brings net-new knowledge to the field that we believe will make healthcare better.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nThis new report is based on a survey of 2,523 individuals who completed NAHQ\u2019s Professional Assessment prior to July 15, 2022. Respondents included healthcare quality professionals and other individuals within healthcare organizations who have responsibility for quality and safety and represent varying job titles and job levels.\n<\/p>\n

\nFor these healthcare quality professionals and the organizations they serve, NAHQ created the twice-validated, industry standard Healthcare Quality Competency Framework that organizes healthcare quality into eight domains, comprised of 29 competency statements and 486 skill statements.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cNAHQ commissioned the research for this new workforce report because the competencies for quality and safety have been misunderstood and neglected for too long,\u201d Mercado added. \u201cThe report calls on employers, regulators, and rating and accreditation organizations to better support and leverage the quality and safety workforce. This includes an urgent need to widen the lens on what competencies are required to fully address system needs today and into the future.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nKey takeaways from the NAHQ Healthcare Quality and Safety Workforce Report:
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<\/b>– The healthcare industry\u2019s traditional view of quality has been too narrow \u2013 focused primarily on regulation, compliance, accreditation, and improvement.\n<\/p>\n

\n– The healthcare workforce must expand the level and type of work being done in quality and safety to ensure they are ready to meet the challenges facing all healthcare stakeholders.\n<\/p>\n

\n– The research underscored that the eight domains of the NAHQ Healthcare Quality Competency Framework represent the full spectrum of competencies that must be present in a high functioning quality organization. These competencies are the key to leveraging healthcare\u2019s goals of both today and tomorrow. Organizations missing any one component will likely experience gaps in other components of the quality domains.\n<\/p>\n

\n– Research shows that the workforce is more focused on three quality domains and that a stronger focus across all eight quality domains is needed now.\n<\/p>\n