About: What is the Hospital Handbook Project™?

The Hospital Handbook Project™

updated 12.2019

Why this Project?  

The Hospital Handbook Project™ is more than just a blog. 
It is a community of acupuncturists working in systems accredited by or eligible for accreditation by The Joint Commission. For simplicity, I call this community the "hospital-based" acupuncturist community. Having a community to share thoughts, concerns, ideas and more with are essential to improve ourselves and our professional work. We endeavor to share wisdom, to avoid re-inventing the wheel and stop being silo-ed from each other.

From this community are identified needs and issues that become "projects" and programs within the Hospital Practice Handbook Project (HHP)™. The Project can be dynamic as it responds to its community's needs. The creation and sustainment of this community of hospital-practice Acupuncturists is essential to the following things the Handbook project aims to support:
1.  Create a Community
2.  Create a source of information.  Get this information to those who need it.
3.  Discuss standards of profession and professional practice, particularly as it pertains to Licensed Acupuncturists working in the hospital/medical center setting.

I.  Create a Community. 
Develop a community of hospital practice Licensed Acupuncturists. 

• Share our wisdom.
• Help each other avoid "re-inventing the wheel" each time a new clinic is set up or an Acupuncturist is hired at a center for the first time or for each L.Ac. starting hospital practice.  This community is also useful for each current hospital-practice L.Ac. who might be venturing into different patient populations or types of clinics.
• Encourage each other.
• Increase and improve our knowledge and practice standards together.

II.  Create a source of information.  Get this information to those who need it.
Audience is:

• Hospital practice L.Ac.s
• Acupuncturists who work in outpatient civilian and federal settings that are accredited by or eligible for accreditation by The Joint Commission
• The hospital administration that supports those L.Ac.s, in particular, the Hospital Sponsor.

How:

• This blog
• The website
• Current and future resources, based on concepts this blog aims to cover and connection to relevant written materials vetted by the community.

III.  Discuss standards of profession and professional practice
Create a forum for discussing those standards of good practice to develop our professional standards as a whole and enhance our own practice.

Interested in why I founded this Project?  Hear my story in Why This Project?

Want to connect to the Project?

• Subscribe to the email newsletter list. announcements and updates go through the newsletter
• Follow us on the public Facebook page 
• Check out our YouTube Channel Playlist to learn more about our Projects.
• Tune in to our Lunchbreak Listens Page to follow a growing list of Integrative Medicine background learning recommendations.
• Support this work through any of the support options on the website or courses page

Want to be a Sponsor? 
Current sponsorship options include:

• sponsor a newsletter
• If you want to sponsor an episode in one of the interview series, more information and sponsorship options are available here.  Thank you.  

For latest information, go to our website at www.thehospitalhandbook.com