Advanced Skills and Competency Assessment for Caregivers. Francie
Wolgin. Brady/Prentice Hall. 1998.
Age-Specific and Cultural Competencies: Meeting JCAHO Standards:
Health-Care Staff Handbook. Channing L. Bete Company,
2000 edition.
Age Specific Care: Competency Assessment Module. Jim D'Alfonso.
Certification Boards, Inc., 2002.
Age Specific Competence. Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations. JCAHO. 1998.
Assessing Hospital Staff Competence. Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organizations. 2002.
Competence Assessment Tools for Health-System Pharmacies.
Lee B. Murdaugh. 3rd edition. American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists. 2005.
Competency Assessment: A Practical Guide to the JCAHO Standards.
Joan S. Tracy and Brenda G. Summers. Opus Communications. 2001.
Competency Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities for Health Care
Educators. American Society for Healthcare Education and Training
of the American Hospital Association. AHA. 1992.
Essentials for Today's Nursing Assistant. Peggy A. Grubbs. Prentice-Hall.
2003.
Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills. Martha Keene Elkin, et al. Mosby. 2007.
The Ultimate Guide to Competency Assessment in Health Care. Donna Wright. Creative Health Care Management. 2005.
Unit-Based Staff Development for Clinical Nurses. Joan Such
Lockhart. Oncology Nursing Society. 2004.
Videos
Age-Specific Competencies. [1 video]. Carrollton, TX: HSTN, 2000.
27 minutes. With: Vallire Hooper.
Synopsis: Reviews age-specific competencies and care
issues for various patient age groups.
Age Specific Competencies. [1 video with guide]. Nashville, TN:
Envision Incorporated, 1997. 21 minutes. With: Wanda Faircloth.
Synopsis: The JCAHO requires that all health care staff
annually meet competency expectations in performing age specific care.
This video covers the nine primary stages of growth and development.
Staff will become more aware of the cultural, physical, and psychosocial
developmental needs for each stage of growth and development.
Assessing Age-Specific Competencies: A Case Study Approach. [1
video with guide]. Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organizations, 1997. 35 minutes. (Joint Commision Tape Library
series).
Synopsis: Compare your own approach to assessing age-specific
competencies with this case study, Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre
de Grace, Maryland, and learn new, practical approaches to develop,
implement, and assess age-specific competencies for all levels of staff
throughout your organization. The Leader's Guide and Viewer's Guide
will also give you checklists and forms for age-specific issues, and
examples of models and tools used by other hospitals for assessing age-specific
competencies.
Competence Assessment: Your Questions Answered. [1 video with
guide]. Oakbrook Terrace, IL: JCAHO, 1996. 90 minutes. With: Joseph A.
Gordon and Carole H. Patterson.
Synopsis: Describes the requirements of the standards
relating to assessing competence; identifies key characteristics of
successful compliance strategies; and comparing and contrasting organizations'
approaches to competence assessment.
Meeting the Human Resource Requirements for Staff, Competency and
Contract Staff. [1 video with guide]. [s.l.], JSTN, 1999. 90 minutes.
(Joint Commission Videoconference series).
Synopsis: Explains the standards expectations relating
to staffing, competence assessment, and contract staff; identifies the
most common compliance issues and discusses how to implement actions
in your organization to increase compliance.
Nursing Competency Assessment: Regaining Control of the Process.
[1 video with guide]. Oakbrook Terrace, IL: JCAHO, 1993. 39 minutes.
Synopsis: A tool to understand the JCAHO's competency
assessment standards' intent and expectations; examples of successful
systems/programs; a detailed description of the survey process.
Organizationwide Competency Assessment: Mapping Out Success. [1
video with guide]. Chicago, IL: JCAHO, 1994. 40 minutes.
Synopsis: The intent of the JCAHO's competency assessment
standards; the benefits of an organizationwide competency assessment
process; the key components of the competency assessment process; how
to prepare for survey in this area by identifying the types of questions
surveyors ask and the documentation that is required. Section 1) An
introduction to organizationwide competency assessment, and the relevant
JCAHO standards (20 minutes). Section 2) Competency assessment as related
to individual service areas and staff of a hospital, and the survey
process (20 minutes). Viewer's guide contains relevant JCAHO standards;
an outline of survey activities that address staff competency; sample
competency-related documents from a hospital case study; a glossary
of terms. Leader's guide contains suggestions for structuring videotape
viewings and discussions as part of a staff exercise; facilitation and
discussion questions that will assist viewers in applying what they
have learned to your own organization; relevant JCAHO standards; a bibliography
to support continued learning.
Solving the Mystery: Competence Assessment. [1 video with guide].
Oakbrook Terrace, IL: JCAHO, 1998.
Synopsis: Describes the Joint Commission competency requirements;
identifies methods to simplify and standardize the organizations's current
approach to competence assessment.
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