A storm is coming and the meteorologists are predicting the worst. A natural disaster has occurred and there's a chance that your hospital-or one of the hospitals nearby-will be forced to evacuate. How well do you know your organization's procedures in the event of an emergency...
As multiple mid-level practitioners crowd around the operating room table, one profession stands out amid these often confusing and blurred roles: the registered nurse first assistant, otherwise known as the RNFA. An RNFA is an experienced perioperative (operating room) nurse who has completed...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 4
Pilots are forced to retire at the age of 65. In many states, senior citizen drivers must undergo a road test every year to maintain their license. Insurance companies often pay tractor trailer drivers to retire when their age and physical conditions pose too much of a risk. But...
What happens when you are creating your ED call lists and one specialty requests to be able to pick their own physician in another specialty? When Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., faced this exact request, it made a good-faith effort to meet it.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 4
Each year on March 30, hospitals across the country express their appreciation for their physicians by celebrating National Doctors' Day. Eudora Brown Almond of Winder, Ga., the wife of Dr. Charles B. Almond, observed the first Doctors' Day in 1933 by mailing greeting cards and...
