Australian-Professional-Standards-Practices

2. Contributes to risk assessment,
audit and quality assurance
3. Evaluates results and takes
appropriate action when indicated
Element 3: Contributes to enhanced service quality
Indicators
Cues
1. Understands the patient’s right to
receive safe and high quality
diagnostic or therapeutic services
2 Understands the means by which
the quality of diagnostic or
therapeutic services can be
maintained and improved
3. Accepts responsibility for assuring
the quality of professional services
provided
• Participates in departmental quality
assurance programmes.
• Understands the role quality assurance
procedures play in risk management.
• Works towards continual improvement.
• Assesses the risk of activities in the clinical
setting and manages the risk in an
appropriate manner.
• Follows the risk management process and
protocols as defined by the workplace.
• Compares quality assurance results to
baseline acceptable values.
• Ensures all values achieved in quality
assurance tests fall within the
predetermined limits.
• Repeats tests when necessary and takes
corrective action if the control limits are
not achieved.
• Records problems relating to equipment in
the appropriate manner
• Reports the potential risks to the relevant
parties to ensure that risk minimisation is
adhered to.
• Follows through with the relevant parties
to ensure corrective action is taken.
• Recognises and acts upon the obligation to
apply professional care and expertise to
deliver quality services.
• Leads by example and promotes consistent
high quality work from others.
• Deliver a high quality service to patients by
maintaining professional standards.
• Differentiates between quality
improvement and quality assurance.
• Applies quality assurance and quality
improvement methods.
• Identifies mechanisms through which the
quality of diagnostic or therapeutic services
can be maintained and improved.
• Complies with and maintains policies and
procedures which are conducive to quality
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