NSQHS Standards – 2nd Edition
Partnering with Consumers
This basemap coincides with NSQHS Standard 2 (2nd edition). This Frontline Staff version is intended for use with clinical and other frontline staff and includes a number of nodes that are not rateable, reflecting activities that most frontline staff would not be aware of. These nodes are rateable in the Senior Management version of this basemap.
Preventing and Controlling Healthcare Associated Infections (Service delivery sub-map)
Medication Safety
This basemap assists health services to assess and improve their current policies, procedures and practices for medication safety. It covers the key elements of the Australian NSQHS (2nd Edition) Standard 4.
Comprehensive Care
Comprehensive Care – Falls
This basemap assists health services to analyse and improve their current falls prevention and management policies, procedures and practices. It covers key elements of the Australian NSQHS Standard 5 (2nd Edition) August 2018 (sections 5.24, 5.25 and 5.26). This basemap is a sub-map of the Comprehensive Care Standard basemap.
Comprehensive Care – Mental health and cognitive impairment
Comprehensive Care – Nutrition and hydration
This basemap assists health services to analyse and improve their current nutrition and hydration policies, procedures and practices. It covers key elements of the Australian NSQHS Standard 5 (2nd Edition), specifically sections 5.27 and 5.28.
Comprehensive Care – Pressure injuries and wound management
Communicating for Safety
The map corresponds to action statements 6.1 – 6.4 and 6.9 – 6.11 of NSQHS Standard 6 (2nd Edition) – Communicating for Safety Standard. This map is associated with two sub-maps: Communicating for Safety – Clinical handover and Communicating for Safety – Patient ID.
Communicating for Safety – Clinical handover
Communicating for Safety – Patient ID
This basemap assists health services to assess and improve their current policies, procedures and practices for patient identification and procedure matching. It covers sections 6.5 and 6.6 of the Australian NSQHS (2nd Edition) Standard 6 – Communicating for Safety.
Blood Management
Acute Deterioration
This basemap assists health services to assess and improve their current policies, procedures and practices for recognising and responding to acute deterioration of patients. It covers the key elements of the Australian NSQHS (2nd edition) Standard 8.
Clinical Care Standards
Acute Coronary Syndrome
This basemap assists health services to assess and improve their current policies, procedures and practices for treating patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS). It covers the key elements of the ACS Clinical Care Standard developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Monitoring clinical standards is also part of Australian NSQHC Standard 1 (Governance for Safety and Quality).
NSQHS Standards – 1st Edition
Falls prevention and management (v02)
This basemap assists health services to analyse and improve their current falls prevention and management policies, procedures and practices. It covers key elements of the Australian NSQHS Standard 10. (Updated in April 2018)
Clinical handover (2017)
Patient Identification
This basemap assists health services to assess and improve their current policies, procedures and practices for patient identification and procedure matching. It covers the key elements of the Australian NSQHS Standard 5. (Updated Nov 2017)
Preventing and Controlling Healthcare Associated Infections (Service delivery sub-map)
Clinical deterioration
This basemap assists health services to assess and improve their current policies, procedures and practices for recognising and responding to clinical deterioration of patients. It covers the key elements of the Australian NSQHS Standard 9. (Version 02; Updated January 2018)
Medication Safety
General Business
Customer service
A generic logic model for how an organisation establishes its customer service policies and processes, trains its staff in the handling of customer enquiries, complaints and feedback, and learns from customer interactions.
Change Management
Board assessment
A tool for Boards to use for regular self–assessment of their performance and effectiveness.
Education
BPCLE element 6
A logic model for Element 6 (Appropriate resources and facilities) of the Best Practice Clinical Learning Environment (BPCLE) Framework.
ACQSC Aged Care Quality Standards
Std 1: Consumer dignity and choice
A basemap to assist providers to self-assess their arrangements in relation to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s Aged Care Quality Standard 1 – Consumer dignity and choice.
Std 2: Ongoing assessment and planning with consumers
Std 3: Personal care and clinical care
A basemap to assist providers to self-assess their arrangements in relation to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s Aged Care Quality Standards, Standard 3 – Personal care and clinical care
Std 4: Services and supports for daily living
Std 5: Organisation’s service environment
Std 6: Feedback and complaints
Std 7: Human resources
Std 8: Organisational governance
Home Care Common Standards
Std 1: Effective management
Std 2: Appropriate access and service delivery
Std 3: Service user rights and responsibilities
A basemap to assist home care service providers in aged care to self-assess their arrangements in relation to the Home Care Common Standard 3 – Service user rights and responsibilities.
Quality Standards
ISO/IEC 17020:2013 standard (section 1-7) 1st draft
A basemap for self assessment against the ISO/IEC 17020:2013 standard, apart from section 8 on Management system requirements