Getting Standard 8 right

Overview

This webinar will focus on equipping your organisation with the knowledge and skills to improve governance to drive care and services. You will come away contemporary knowledge and practical steps you can implement in your service. You will be able to assess any gaps you have and identify corrective actions.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar course, you will be able to:

• Explain the concepts of ‘safety and quality’ in relation to home care
• Explain the requirements of the Aged Care Quality Standards in relation to Standard 8 and how it links to other Standards
• Describe how home care organisations can practically demonstrate compliance with Standard 8
• Implement a clinical governance framework to oversight, drive and improve clinical care
• Promote a culture of safety and quality that is embedded throughout the organisation
• Identify the organisational-wide systems that need to be in place
• Describe how clinical effectiveness, learning effectiveness and risk management underpin clinical governance
• Explain the role of leadership in achieving effective governance
• Review and evaluation of organisational governance to identify gaps and areas for improvement