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.
My first consulting assignment involved a surgeon on a small medical staff with chronic depression. He would experience meltdowns in the middle of the night when nurses attempted to rouse him from a fitful sleep. On two occasions he slammed down the phone after being asked to...
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...
Last month, we discussed how the medical staff leadership can build bridges between themselves and the medical staff members to create more collegial, open relationships. In the final installment of this three-part series about medical staff communication, we discuss how...
