Unlike the first seven standards, EC.9.10 does not require a written management plan. Therefore, it is often overlooked. This can easily get a hospital in trouble because Joint Commission surveyors will ask just as many questions about EC.9.10 as they will about the first seven standards. In...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 19
The answer to this question is based on a number of factors, including to what degree your medical staff culture will even allow physicians to be paid for administrative tasks.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 19
Dealing with a disruptive physician is difficult enough when you have time to plan for an intervention and have others to help you. But what can you do when you are confronted by a disruptive physician during a committee meeting?
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 18
As I recently prepared a quality and peer review educational program for a medical staff, the hospital I was working with asked me to cover physician-nurse relations as well. As I thought about how to approach this, I realized that discussing it in the context of the six general competencies...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 17
As a member of the medical staff, your fellow physicians should have your unconditional respect as a colleague. This is the “social grease” of physician-to-physician relationships as we all want to work in a collegial environment. In short, people who trust each other, value each other’s company...
