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The purpose of this guide is to provide practical guidance for managers and practitioners responsible for credentialing, and for determining and managing, a health practitioner’s scope of clinical practice. This is an ancillary guide only. It does not replace or supersede state, territory or organisational policies on credentialing.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide organisations with a general summary of specific issues on governance for safety and quality in health service organisation in the NSQHS Standards (first edition).

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide organisations with a general summary of specific issues on partnering with consumers in the NSQHS Standards (first edition).

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide organisations with a general summary of specific issues on medication safety in the NSQHS Standards (first edition).

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide organisations with a general summary of specific issues on preventing and controlling healthcare associated infections in the NSQHS Standards (first edition).

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide organisations with a general summary of specific issues on patient identification and procedure matching in the NSQHS Standards (first edition).

Adapted from Preventing Falls and Harm From Falls in Older People: Australian Residential Aged Care Facilities 2009

The report on attestation by governing bodies includes a definition of attestation, a review of the evidence of the effectiveness of attestation by governing bodies as part of accreditation in healthcare, and examples of the use of attestation in practice.