Moral distress, or the “disequilibrium resulting from the recognition of and inability to react ethically to a situation,” has long been associated with some bedside nurses’ experiences during fraught care situations. But the phenomenon is not unique to the nursing frontlines, according to a new...
“Managing a hospital is like herding cats who collaborate with cats around the world, are actually paid by outside cats, use products developed by cats, deal with policies designed by cats and are taking care of other cats who can also hire cats to sue your hospital.”
This week, CRC Daily covers peer review, OPPE, and FPPE. To have confidence in peer review program data, an oversight body needs a reasonable understanding of how the data were produced. It also needs to know how the data are evaluated and what is done with the results. Explain to the...
Negligent credentialing cases have picked up steam in recent years, but for the medical staff office, litigation poses less of a threat than shepherding practitioners through the application process against MSPs' better judgment. During HCPro’s webinar, ...
Christopher Duntsch, MD, a former neurosurgeon convicted of a first degree felony for harming an elderly patient he operated on, will spend the rest of his life in prison. A jury returned the verdict Monday following two weeks of testimony for the sentencing phase of Duntsch’s trial that...
