A 2017 survey found that 12% of healthcare practices don’t have a sexual harassment policy and 4% of respondents didn’t know whether their facility had one. While having a harassment policy is necessary if you want to stop this behavior, CEOs often believe (mistakenly) that a good policy and HR...
Every profession goes through the stress of growth and expansion—as it develops, lessons are learned, achievements are acknowledged, and a path is established to help new professionals achieve success. Almost every MSP has felt unrecognized or misunderstood at some point in his or her...
Locum tenens agencies provide temporary staffing and specialize in finding, engaging, placing, and paying suitable physicians in short work assignments within different facilities.
Peer review remains a vital part of both credentialing and privileging, and it is indicative of the desire to pursue physician excellence. Beyond the need to meet regulatory requirements, when peer review is done from a performance improvement perspective, it provides the opportunity for the...
Eighty-five percent of physicians think it is never acceptable to cover up or avoid revealing a mistake if that mistake would cause harm to the patient. This is just one of the findings from Medscape’s 2018 Ethics Report, in which 5,200 physicians were asked ethical questions related to patients...
