Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education
• California Board of Registered Nursing (CA-BRN)
• Physical Therapy Board of California (PTBC)
• Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA)
• Laboratory Field Services Agency (LFSA)
• Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology & Hearing Aid Dispensers Board (LFSA)
• Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) (LFSA)
Dignity Health is accredited by the Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing (JA) education. It is the first and only innovation in the world that offers multiple accreditations and is designed specifically to promote interprofessional collaborative practice in healthcare delivery. Dignity Health is approved to provide CE credits for:
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Pharmacists
- Physician Assistants
- Psychologists
- Dieticians
- Social Workers
- Dentists
Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education is NOT the Joint Commission. These are two separate and distinct entities
- To learn more about Joint Accreditation, please feel free to visit their website.
- The standards for which Dignity Health designs and delivers continuing educational activities can be found in this documented located here.
Two of our top priorities are to align our educational activities with quality and safety initiatives (JA Criterions 23,24, & 25) and to include a patient family partner as part of our planning team and as speakers (JA Criterion 13). To learn more about the specific criterion that governs continuing education click here!
Note that the Joint Accreditation and the State of California have very specific criteria that have to be met including:
- Determine what changes you want the members of the healthcare to make in their practice as a result of the learning and have a mechanism to measure the change.
- Identify how you know you need the education. What data was consulted? Who requested the information and why? Were there any changes to the law or industry guideline? Are there organizational processes that are changing?
- Who is your target audience? Do you have the voice of one member of each of the target audience as part of your planning process? The accreditation standards require that there is representation from each member of your target audience as part of the planning process (JA Criterion 6)
- What active learning strategies do you plan to incorporate into your activity? This is a core requirement from our accrediting body (JA Criterion 7). Didactic and Q&A are no longer acceptable methods for delivery of Certified Continuing Education. (Please see the planning team tab for tools and resources)
- Dignity Health is committed to incorporating the voice of the Patient Family Partner into our certified continuing education as planning team members and speakers (JA Criterion 13).