AACVPR News & Views - September/October 2017 - 15

PROGRAM CERTIFICATION >> CORNER

Program Certification
Preparation is Key
Barb Flato MSN, RN-BC, CCRP, FAACVPR

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ow is the time to
begin preparation
for the 2018
Program Certification
application cycle.

Have you begun completing your
yearly competencies and your
medical in-services?
Do your Individualized Treatment
Plans (ITPs) tell the story of the
interventions and education you
have provided, as well as patients'
response in order to reach quality
outcomes by discharge from
your program?
For some time now, we have
been communicating about the
switch to an outcomes-based
Program Certification application

in 2018. We are fortunate to
have an abundance of experts
who have given us both cardiac
and pulmonary evidenced-based
performance measures. For
the first time, our members are
able to obtain a baseline of their
individual programs' performance
in relation to those measures
and create goals to improve
program outcomes.
What steps can we put in place
that will allow our patients to walk
significantly farther at the end of
their program? How do we help
our patients ensure their blood
pressure stays under 140/90?
What interventions work best
to decrease depression in our
cardiac patients and increase
quality of life in our pulmonary

patients? As programs begin
submitting that data through the
certification process, it will allow
for benchmarking against other
certified programs relative to
improvement in functional capacity,
dyspnea, blood pressure control,
and the rest of the performance
measures. The ITP is the most
appropriate place to document
both pre- and post-outcome data
and the interventions used to
obtain those outcomes. Frequent
updating of the ITP makes it
a living, breathing document
used throughout the program
instead of just another piece of
required paperwork. Get ready
for 2018! It's going to be a great
transition year. 

Frequent updating of the ITP makes it a
living, breathing document used throughout
the program.

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