Are you smarter than an Accreditation Surveyor survey results

See how well you did. The correct answers are in red; with the percentage answering correctly in brackets.

1. Accreditation at the BC Cancer Agency is: 
       Optional
       Mandatory (84%)

3. What is Accreditation:
        A nationally recognized and respected evaluation process used to assess health care services
        A process whereby staff can showcase their commitment to continuous quality improvement, 
        patient safety and quality of work life
        An important commitment
        All of the above (80%)

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4. The December 2008 Link newsletter focused on what area of Accreditation:
        A list of Accreditation Standards
        "Who's who" in Accreditation (21%)
        How Accreditation supports imPROVE
        Accreditation quality "road map"

Read the December issue of the Link.

5. Who conducts Accreditation: 
        Canadian Hospital Association
        National Accreditation Safety Body
        Accreditation Canada (49%)

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6. A Required Organizational Practice (ROP) is:
        Created to ensure an organization has the maximum possible policies and procedures
        Designed to enhance patient safety and minimize risk (83%)
        A list of priorities developed by the BC Cancer Agency

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7. Which of the following is NOT an ROP: 
        Executives must organize policies in their offices alphabetically (89%)
        Implement an effective preventative maintenance program for all medical devices, equipment 
        and technology
        Provide ongoing, effective training to service providers on all infusion pumps
        Reconcile medications with the patient at admission, referral, or transfer and communicate 
        information about the patient's medication to the next provider of service at referral or transfer to 
        another setting, service provider or level of care within or outside the organization

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8. BC Cancer Agency's 2009 Accreditation preparation is focused on what number of Quality
    and Safety areas: 
        Four
        Six (62%)
        Seven
        Twelve

For more information, see Accreditation article in the February Link.

9. Patient safety is: 
        A written strategic priority or goal for the BC Cancer Agency
        Essential to work we do every day
        About educating patients and families about their role in promoting safety
        All of the above (92%)

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10. Who needs to be concerned with Accreditation: 
        Senior/leadership staff
        Leadership staff and managers
        All staff (98%)

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11. When will Surveyors be visiting the BC Cancer Agency: 
        May 31 to June 4 (94%)
        September 14 to 17
        November 23 to 26

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12. Surveyors will only visit the Vancouver Centre, and not the other Centres or the Research Centre: 
         Yes
         No (96.5%)

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13. During the site visit, Surveyors may: 
        Talk to my manager only
        Talk to me and my manager (97%)
        Only observe, but not talk to anyone

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14. Surveyors will follow a patient or process journey, which means they: 
         Drive patients to and from appointments
         Talk to staff and patients, observe, and review documents (98%)
         Stand by the printer waiting for paper to come out
         Sit in a meeting room with managers

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15. If a Surveyor asks me a question that I don't know the answer to, I should:
        Run away
        Tell them to check the BC Cancer Agency website
        Say "I don't know, but I can tell you who does." (97%)
        Say, "Nice weather we're having, isn't it?"

For more information, check out the February issue of the Link newsletter.

16. Which BC Cancer Agency member of Executive has been a Surveyor visiting other health care organizations: 
       Brian Schmidt (34%)
       Karim Karmali
       Susan O’Reilly
       Fiona Bees

For more information: Check out the February issue of the Link for a profile of Brian.

For more information about Accreditation, including the ROPS, and fact sheets about the six key areas, please visit the H:drive\everyone\BCCA Accreditation 2009