Vol 1 :Daily Quality Walk-rounds Annual Competency Forms: A Reference for Hospitals, Healtheare Workers and Healthcare Education (The NABH Hospital-Wide Series)

The first volume of THE NABH HOSPITAL-WIDE SERIES — the only book on the Indian market that puts all 68 hospital departments under one cover, each with its own daily walk-round AND its own annual NABH HRM 5.a competency form, every line coded to NABH 6th Edition.Stop preparing for NABH. Start living NABH.If the surveyor walked in today, is your department ready? Is every staff member genuinely competent at the role they hold? Volume 1 answers both — for all 68 departments — with fillable, printable, audit-ready forms that turn NABH compliance from a once-a-year scramble into a daily habit.Aligned with NABH 6th Edition (effective 1 January 2025) and the 2024 statutory framework (BNS, BNSS, BSA, DPDP Act, BMW Rules, AERB, CDSCO, FSSAI), Volume 1 contains the two operational rhythms that touch every department, every day and every year.Section A — Daily Quality Walk-rounds (5–10 min). A floor instrument for nursing in-charges, floor managers, shift supervisors. 68 chapters: Ambulance, Emergency, ICU, OT, Cath Lab, Dialysis, Pharmacy, Blood Bank, CSSD, Laboratory, Radiology, Housekeeping, Security, and all 19 specialty / superspeciality blocks. Each chapter has 25–60 line-items, every line coded to a specific NABH Objective Element. Plus 5 cross-cutting audits.Section C — Annual Competency Assessment Forms (30–60 min). The instrument NABH HRM 5.a demands but rarely defines. One fillable form per role, with scoring (0/1/2), signatures, and a built-in PASS / RE-TRAIN decision gate. Role-specific for the Cath-Lab nurse, dialysis technician, radiation therapist, OT scrub — anchored to RCR, ESMO, NICE, ESTRO, ASCO, WHO guidance.Inside a typical chapter — A.18 Operating Theatre. Cross-references at the top to B.18 (Vol 2 monthly audit) and C.18 (annual competency). Seven panels follow: OT SOPs and Patient Identification · Pre-Surgical Pause with WHO Safety Checklist · Anaesthesia Workstation (AAGBI-aligned) · Sterility and Fumigation Records · Drug Safety and Narcotic Reconciliation · Surgical Consent · Quality Indicators, Adverse Events and M&M. 42 line-items, every line tagged to an NABH Objective Element. Signature block at foot. Timestamp. Done in eight minutes by the OT in-charge before the first case of the day.Eight reasons no other Indian NABH reference comes close: 1. All 68 departments in one cover — no published Indian reference does this. 2. Aligned to 6th Edition — not a 5th-Edition reissue. 3. Fillable and print-ready — walk in, fill, sign, file. 4. Daily and annual share chapter numbers — A.62 (daily) and C.62 (annual) = same department, side by side. 5. Cross-referenced to Volume 2 (monthly audits) and Volume 3 (training) — one integrated system. 6. Alphabetical Department Index — find any department in seconds. 7. Field-tested on a working tertiary hospital floor (Apex Super Speciality Hospital, Varanasi). 8. Doubles as a teaching text for nursing and paramedical colleges.For: Hospital Administrators · Medical Superintendents · NABH Coordinators · Quality and Patient Safety Managers · Nursing Superintendents · Matrons · Floor Managers · HR Managers · Department Heads · NABH Consultants · Faculty at Nursing, Paramedical and Hospital Management Colleges.About the author. Dr. Ankita Patel — MD Radiation Oncology · MRCP Medical Oncology · FRCR 2A Clinical Oncology · ESMO Certified Medical Oncologist · Director, Department of Oncology, Apex Super Speciality Hospital, Varanasi. Written from the floor of a working hospital, not from a desk.~235 pages · 68 departments · ~3,000 daily floor items · 680 competency assessments · NABH 6th Edition aligned · Companion to Volumes 2 & 3. Read more