How can health care best ensure that all of its practitioners meet current standards of care?
1. Encourage practitioners to find alternate, quicker ways to implement interventions.
2. Create clearly written, easily updated policy and procedure manuals.
3. Refuse to tolerate those who are slow to adapt new standards of care.
4. Emphasize protection of the hospital when developing internal standards and policies.
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Rationale: The best way to ensure that practitioners meet current standards of care is to create policy and procedure manuals that are current, easy to understand, and easily updated. Making evidence-based standards easily available to those who need to know them and ensuring that these documents are kept current is the best way to influence practitioners to use the information. Encouraging practitioners to find alternate, quicker ways to implement interventions can be dangerous if standards of care and patient safety are not taken into consideration. Intolerance of those who are ignorant of standards or slow to adopt new standards is divisive and is not helpful in encouraging these practitioners. The clear and overwhelming focus of all standards should be the patients' safety.
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