Nursing Responses: Maslow's Pyramid Essay

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Accreditation

According to the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), "accreditation is a nongovernmental process conducted by representatives of postsecondary institutions and professional groups. As conducted in the United States, accreditation focuses on the quality of institutions of higher and professional education and on the quality of educational programs within institutions" (Standards of accreditation for post-baccalaureate nurse residency programs, 2008, CCNE). Accreditation is a source of objective evidence from an outside entity that a program meets certain quality and content standards. This is essential for both students and patients. Students make a considerable financial and time investment in their education and need to expect that they can emerge with real skills as well as a diploma upon graduation. They do not have to tools to vet a program before they are accepted. Patients have a right to expect that the nurses who oversee them graduated from high-quality programs. Accreditation serves the interest of everyone in the healthcare system.

References

Standards of accreditation for post-baccalaureate nurse residency programs. (2008). CCNE.

Retrieved from: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/ccne-accreditation/resstandards08.pdf

Q2. As well as ensuring standardization, accreditation reviews also ensure that a program is continually improving and keeping current with changes in the healthcare environment.
Programs cannot stay static in terms of the information they transmit to graduates. Technology is growing more complex; changes in legislation mean changes in funding and the emphasis placed upon preventative medicine; the relationship of nurses to other healthcare providers is likewise in flux. Nursing accreditation programs must take all of this into consideration when evaluating a university on a regular basis. Accreditation is never given once and in perpetuity: institutions are under regular review so a once-qualified program may be denied and have to bring it standards back 'up to code.'

Nurses are continually learning and many go back to school to enhance their credentials. The schools that teach them must also be changing, learning, and growing with the needs of the world outside. The pillars of nursing education are today defined as learning how to "deliver patient-centered care as members of an interdisciplinary team, emphasizing evidence-based practice, quality improvement approaches, and informatics" (Lifelong learning in medicine and nursing, 2008: 8). The relatively recent nature of all of these developments to nursing practice underlines the vital nature of nursing programs remaining fresh and future-focused......

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