Programs adequately staffed may not need to make any changes. 418.54 â Initial and Comprehensive Assessment. Admission and Assessment: The social work assessment is a part of the comprehensive assessment, which must be. completed within five days of the election of hospice care. Many programs are sending the RN and the social worker to.
Quality Glossary Definition: Root Cause. A root cause is a factor that caused a nonconformance and should be permanently eliminated through process improvement. Root cause analysis is a collective term that describes a wide range of approaches, tools, and techniques used to uncover causes of problems.
Presentation given at QA&Test now available on-line! Root Cause Analysis (RCA) enables prevention of problems, by analyzing problems that happened in the past. Purpose is to identify main causes that lead to the problem, and to initiate actions to prevent similar problems from occurring. RCA can be applied on any problem case; like major defects, project disturbances, or findings from assessments.