title: Standards of patient care: the Joint Commission focus on nursing quality assurance.
abstract: A process is described for qualified nurse administrators to set their own standards of care (as opposed to standards of practice set by professional organizations) in order to enhance and simplify the Joint Commission monitoring and evaluation activities required to measure both the quality and the appropriateness of clinical nursing care that patients receive.
authors.affiliation: Department of Standards, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Patterson
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D004282:Documentation; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012015:Reference Standards; D014481:United States