Question

Explain how policy and procedure can be used to manage and monitor compliance and ethics in an aged care organisation?

Answer 1

• Policies and procedures are an essential component of any organization
• policies are important because they address pertinent issues.
• policies and procedures during any decision making ensures care takers, workers, head, all staff are consistent in their decision.

• policies and procudures:

1. applies a risk based framework to decision making.  
2. adopts a proportionate approach to non compliance.  
3. ensures that the decision making processes are transparent

The ways to monitor compliance and ethics in aged care organization:

• To return to the provider as quickly as possible to compliance with its responsibilities and deter future noncompliance, in order to protect the health, welfare or interests of care recipients of aged care services.
• to ensure confidence in the national aged care compliance programme through timely, proportional, reliable, well documented decisions.
• encouraging and promoting compliance by educating and informing.
• responding to identified noncompliance through administrative resolution or enforcing the law or contractual obligations where necessary.

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