Clinical Engineering Standards of Practice
One of the many professions that contribute to quality, affordable, and safe healthcare is clinical engineering. The administration of medical device technology, including adherence to established safety, quality, cost, and efficiency criteria, is the role and main duty of clinical engineering services.
The Clinical Engineering Standard of Practice has two goals:
- To define the scope and role of clinical engineering services in Nigerian healthcare organizations
- To define standards suitable for evaluation in a review process
The original Clinical Engineering Standards of Practice for Nigeria were drafted in 2022. It was recognized that for this Standards of Practice document to remain relevant to Nigerian Clinical Engineers, it must undergo periodic reviews and updating. A second edition will be published in 2024. A working draft will be presented at the NSBCE Workshop/webinars in 2023. Input from the Workshop/webinars will be used to revise the working draft. It will then be circulated to the full membership for another round of comments. The final document was presented to the membership for approval by electronic ballot after being presented at a workshop at the NSBCE’s forthcoming conference in Abuja.
The Clinical Engineering Standard of Practice is available free of charge to members.