CPD for clinical support roles: I undertake clinical governance activities

Practice evaluation (category 1)

• Facilitate or participate in an analysing healthcare outcomes (AHO) activity with a small group of colleagues on a published report of outcome data and evidence-based care relevant to clinical governance work. Topic examples are in the AHO CPD guideline.
• Actively contribute time to institutional professional governance or an international society or organisation (either healthcare institutions or professional bodies). Claim this under clinical governance.
• Participate in clinical governance/quality assurance committee work relevant to your scope of practice which contributes to broader safety and quality of patient care by:
  • reviewing clinical care outcomes or activities which support clinical care outcomes
  • reviewing guidelines, standards, performance data, incident data or monitoring implementation of recommendations/actions taken to support relevant safety and quality outcomes.
    
    Examples include safety and quality committees, clinical outcome review committees, regional/national mortality committees, medication and blood safety committee, clinical governance committees, and accreditation committees.
• Undertake a critical reflection on your clinical governance work and develop a plan for practice change or professional development. For example: After reflecting on experience participating in clinical outcome reviews/RCA, you may consider undertaking a course in serious adverse event review/RCA or in Human Factors as it relates to healthcare
• Participate in a peer support group of self-selected peers with expertise and interest in clinical governance and related areas. Potential areas of focus are in the key areasFrom the ACSQHC framework: Governance leadership and culture; Patient safety and quality improvement systems; Clinical performance and effectiveness; Safe environment for the delivery of care; Partnering with consumers; From the HQSC NZ framework: Consumer engagement and participation; Clinical effectiveness; Quality improvement and patient safety; Engaged, effective workforce. See the resources section for resources that could support your discussions.
• Conduct or participate in a practice audit (clinical support) relevant to your clinical governance work. Present to a colleague/audience or write a report of your audit results, including key findings and the implications for your/broader practice. Claim hours spent under report of audit findings.
• Participate in design/re-design/co-design of patient care pathways and claim under review of patient care pathways.
• Participate in a root cause analysis (RCA) or incident reporting (review of aggregated incidents or single incident) organised by your department, unit, group, practice or hospital.

Knowledge & skills (category 2)

• Undertake a formal qualification relevant to clinical governance work . Claim time spent doing this under formal courses. Examples include: human factors, RCA, serious adverse event review, safety & quality, quality improvement, team training, leadership training, and risk management.
• Read peer-reviewed journals or reports relevant to your clinical governance work (see key areas to consider) From the ACSQHC framework: Governance leadership and culture; Patient safety and quality improvement systems; Clinical performance and effectiveness; Safe environment for the delivery of care; Partnering with consumers; From the HQSC NZ framework: Consumer engagement and participation; Clinical effectiveness; Quality improvement and patient safety; Engaged, effective workforce and claim this as journal reading. A broad range of journals include peer-reviewed articles with a clinical governance/patient safety focus. Some examples from the quality and safety space include: BMJ Quality and Safety, BMJ Quality Improvement Reports, Implementation Science, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Journal for Healthcare Quality, Journal of Patient Safety. Note: Articles from journals not available full-text via the ANZCA Library can be requested free-of-cost to CPD participants.
• Attend courses and workshops to develop your clinical governance knowledge and skills. Claim time spent doing this under leadership and management skills development.
• Attend face-to-face or virtual learning sessions relevant to your clinical governance practice (for example: conferences, podcasts, webinars; see key areas to considerFrom the ACSQHC framework: Governance leadership and culture; Patient safety and quality improvement systems; Clinical performance and effectiveness; Safe environment for the delivery of care; Partnering with consumers; From the HQSC NZ framework: Consumer engagement and participation; Clinical effectiveness; Quality improvement and patient safety; Engaged, effective workforce). Claim time spent doing this under learning sessions.
• Participate in face-to-face or virtual small group learning which may include teaching or learning a new skill relevant to your clinical governance practice, and which has an interactive and/or hands on component. Claim this under short format learning.