There have been many times where we have talked to auditors or inspectors who wanted to know if training occurred. While the answer was yes, there also have been times where we didn’t have any concrete documentation to support it, save for the Outlook meeting invite with everyone’s name on it. Even more surprisingly, there have been times where that has been accepted. Now, call it chance, dumb luck, or we dodged a bullet, but this is not always the case.
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“Audit readiness in quality is no different than anything else – follow a pre-defined process to the letter, tweak it as necessary and continue to evolve it until it works for your organization. It’s not hard. People just panic because the auditor can shut them down. But you wouldn’t panic if you had a process to follow to minimize the damage.”
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“Any discussion or plan that doesn’t take into account whether or not you can actually execute on it is an exercise in fantasy.”
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“Still, it’s possible for smaller healthcare systems to compete. To do so, you need to ask yourself two questions – who are you and what are you measuring?”
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“The first thing that you should understand is this: you don’t have to build the perfect program. Your education program just needs to be good enough to ensure employees have the training needed to demonstrate core knowledge and pass audits and inspections.”
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“Both of these are tools in your toolkit, so why limit yourself to one or the other? Determine which of the two is the best tool for your organization and use it appropriately.”
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