The comparative study of nursing practice before and after Joint Commission International accreditation / 中华护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the influence of Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation on nursing practice.Methods Totally 30 medical institutions which had passed the JCI accreditation were investigated to compare the scores of nursing practice before and after JCI accreditation.Results Before JCI accreditation,the average standardized score of governance,leadership and management dimension was 81.20,but the scores of other dimensions were below 80.After the JCI accreditation,the quality improvement and patient safety(QPS) dimension scored 81.10,and scores of other dimensions were all above 90.The differences of all dimensions were statistically significant (P＜0.001) before and after the JCI accreditation,the scores were all much greater than those before the accreditation,and improvement of AOP(77.37％)and IPSG(69.86％)was most obvious with statistical significance (P＜0.001).Conclusion JCI accreditation plays a certain role in promoting nursing practice,making nursing process more systematic and comprehensive and the safety of nursing guaranteed.