Clinical Standard/Procedure Development Overview
What is a Clinical Standard?
Clinical standard documents are evidence-informed and establish the expectations, requirements, and accountabilities for the health care team in the delivery of clinical care. They reflect the standard of care patients can expect within the SHA. Clinical Standards are not optional.
How to find a Clinical Standard or Procedure
What Clinical Standards are in progress?
Is it a Policy or Clinical Standard?
- Clinical Standards supports provincial alignment and standardization of clinical documents.
- The Policy Office supports provincial alignment and standardization of policy. Policy supports all aspects of governance, regulatory affairs, and corporate record management.
- The Clinical Standards and Policy teams work together to triage requests and align processes where possible.
Is it a Policy or Clinical Standard / Types of Clinical Documents
- Clinical Standards supports provincial alignment and standardization of clinical documents.
- The Policy Office supports provincial alignment and standardization of policy. Policy supports all aspects of governance, regulatory affairs, and corporate record management.
- The Clinical Standards and Policy teams work together to triage requests and align processes where possible.
- They may be used to document care provided. This documentation is customized to a specific patient it is used for and becomes a permanent part of the health record.
- They may be used by clinical staff for clinical purposes, but not part of patient care, such as checklists, training/education records, etc.
How do I get a Clinical Standard developed?
As a support portfolio, the Clinical Standards & Professional Practice team partner to develop clinical standards. We lead some initiatives, but, in most cases, we support representative working groups to develop provincial standards.
Provincialization of clinical standards requires a sponsor and an owner. Senior levels of leadership will determine if the development and implementation of a particular clinical standard is a current SHA priority.
The process of clinical standard development includes stakeholder engagement as well as an impact assessment and implementation plan.