CRC members can peruse all of the online articles from the September 2018 issues of Credentialing REsource Center Journal and Medical Staff Briefing—as well as full-color PDFs—here:
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 9
If you receive an application from a practitioner requesting privileges that he or she did not hold at his or her previous hospital, don’t deny the request based on that fact alone. Instead, ask the practitioner questions such as the following:
The Joint Commission is the latest healthcare heavy-hitter to call for better protection of healthcare workers, recently announcing the creation of Sentinel Event Alert 59, which addresses violence—physical and verbal—against healthcare workers. About 75% of workplace assaults occur in the...
