Nuclear medicine technologists (NMTs) work under the direction of nuclear medicine physicians (MD or DO). The primary responsibilities of an NMT include preparing and administering radiopharmaceuticals; using radiation-detecting instruments for imaging procedures; supplying physicians with...
The revised Conditions of Participation (CoP) allow certain nonphysician practitioners, when determined to be eligible for appointment by the governing body, to have privileges like other medical staff members. These nonphysician practitioners may be advanced practice registered nurses...
The following steps are essential to successfully developing and implementing core privileges in any organization. The assumptions in all the steps are that medical staff leaders within your organization have already examined existing privileging practices and recognize the dilemmas associated...
A membership to the Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) gives you a searchable database of continuously updated tools. Access physician specialty and subspecialty core privileging forms that are downloadable and customizable, so you can edit them to fit your medical staff’s specific needs. A CRC...
There are several ways to delineate privileges. How an organization delineates privileges will affect the information that the medical staff office will require to process privilege requests.
In a core privileging environment, appropriate members of the medical staff identify the...
