As AHPs' roles expand, keep conflict at bay

Encroaching physician shortages and quality-driven payment reforms are shaking up traditional medical staff compositions and changing the course of practitioner privileging and credentialing. As a result, growing ranks of midwives, NPs, PAs, clinical pharmacists, and other allied health professionals (AHP) are seeking (and often receiving) more autonomy and broader scopes of practice. In this volatile medical staff landscape, turf battles are likely.

Enter Resolve Practitioner Turf Conflicts, your definitive guide to sidestepping longstanding and emerging pitfalls in the modern medical staff terrain. The resource draws on the perspectives of the practitioner and the MSP to help both stakeholders:

• Identify changes in healthcare and their organization that could lead to a turf dispute
• Develop policies and procedures for dealing with conflict
• Review existing privileging policies and requirements to make sure they are fair to providers
• Understand how AHPs’ expanding roles affect the medical staff

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