The nursing profession is in an upheaval. Nurses want more opportunities to learn alongside physicians, in classrooms and in direct patient care settings with more and longer residency programs in hospitals.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 11
I read a couple of interesting management pieces that confirmed my discovery that when it comes to some aspects of credentialing, less is really more. Here's how I came to that conclusion.
When you attend conferences focused on medical staff services issues, you may come home eager to implement a new strategy or update a form, but because of the information overload, your efforts may come screeching to a halt. As you try to remember what a speaker said about peer...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 11
The nursing profession is in an upheaval. Nurses want more opportunities to learn alongside physicians, in classrooms and in direct patient care settings with more and longer residency programs in hospitals.
The consequences of not setting sufficient rules as to who can be granted privileges at a given hospital are frequent fodder for credentialing professionals, medical staff leaders, and legal counsel. But what happens when we go too far in the opposite direction? Overly...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 11
Editor's note: In this article, Jonathan H. Burroughs, MD, MBA, FACPE, CMSL, and Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, both senior consultants for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, MA, discuss issues that can arise around granting credentials and privileges to...
