What is Quality Dietetics? Do RDs Practice It ...

What is Quality Dietetics? Do RDs Practice It? How Do Dietetics Practitioners Know the Activities They Are Authorized to Perform? by Sharon M. McCauley, MS, MBA, RD, LDN, FADA & Cecily Byrne, MS, RD, LDN. Quality is about providing safe, effective, patients/residents/clients under their nutrition care. RDs patient/resident/client-centered, timely, efficient, and who demonstrate competency at the advanced Practice equitable dietetics care. These six dimensions of Quality are level may then apply to obtain clinical privileging in their outlined in a report by the committee on the Quality of facilities to perform medical level tasks. Health Care in America (1). Overall, the report makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the Quality How do RDs know that they are able to apply for gap, recommends a redesign of the American health care privileges within their facility? system, and provides overarching principles for specific According to CMS, clinical privileging is a process by direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, which the governance of the hospital- specifically the regulators, purchasers, and others.

SUMMER 2010 CONNECTIONS^ PAGE 13 Quality is about providing safe, effective, patient/resident/client-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable dietetics care.

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