Framework overlap

Does NIST SP 800-171A Rev 3 cover Aged Care Quality Standards (Australia)?

You hold NIST SP 800-171A Rev 3 and have been told to do Aged Care Quality Standards (Australia). Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

17% of Aged Care Quality Standards (Australia) you already have

NIST SP 800-171A Rev 3 already covers about 17% of Aged Care Quality Standards (Australia), leaving 35 of 42 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 3 Likely covered 4 New work 35

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in NIST SP 800-171A Rev 3 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

ACQS-1
Consumer Dignity and Choice
ACQS-1-1
Dignity and Respect
ACQS-1-2
Consumer Choice and Independence
ACQS-1-3
Information and Informed Consent
ACQS-2
Ongoing Assessment and Planning with Consumers
ACQS-2-1
Assessment of Needs
ACQS-2-2
Care and Services Planning
ACQS-2-3
Regular Reassessment
ACQS-3
Personal Care and Clinical Care
ACQS-3-2
Antimicrobial Stewardship
ACQS-3-3
Minimising Restrictive Practices
ACQS-4
Services and Supports for Daily Living
ACQS-4-1
Daily Living Services
ACQS-4-2
Service Delivery
ACQS-5
Organisation's Service Environment
ACQS-5-1
Safe Environment
ACQS-5-2
Furniture, Fittings, and Equipment
ACQS-6
Feedback and Complaints
ACQS-6-1
Feedback and Complaints Process
ACQS-6-2
Open Disclosure
ACQS-7
Human Resources
ACQS-7-1
Workforce Planning
ACQS-7-2
Ongoing Education and Training
ACQS-8
Organisational Governance
ACQS-8-1
Effective Governance
ACQS-CDC
Consumer-Directed Care (Home Care)
ACQS-FIN
Financial and Prudential Standards
ACQS-IPC
Infection Prevention and Control
ACQS-MED
Medication Management
ACQS-NUTRITION
Nutrition and Hydration
ACQS-OPEN-DISC
Open Disclosure
ACQS-PALLIATIVE
Palliative and End-of-Life Care
ACQS-QI
National Quality Indicators
ACQS-RP
Restrictive Practices Authorisation
ACQS-SIRS
Serious Incident Response Scheme
Show the 7 you already have
ACQS-7-3
Worker Screening
ACQS-8-3
Continuous Improvement
ACQS-8-4
Risk Management
ACQS-3-1
Safe and Effective Care
ACQS-8-2
Clinical Governance
ACQS-CONT-IMPROV
Continuous Improvement Plan
ACQS-WORKER-REG
Aged Care Worker Screening and Code of Conduct

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in NIST SP 800-171A Rev 3 to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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