Although MSPs consider quality care a driving focus, they don’t always devote the same energy to collaborating with colleagues in the quality department. This incongruity can be counterproductive. Poor alignment between quality and medical staff services personnel can undermine overlapping...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its medical regulations to permit full practice authority of three types of advanced practice registered nurses (APRN): certified nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists. Certified registered nurse anesthetists were...
An ACGME task force recently issued recommendations regarding changes to its Common Program Requirements regarding duty hours. A public comment period is now underway. A key part of the recommendations propose greater flexibility in resident work hours as generally tested in the Flexibility in...
The Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) Symposium has long been among the most anticipated industry events of the year. But our team of first-class subject matter experts never stops dreaming up new ways to make the symposium even more memorable and applicable to MSPs’ and...
Last month, Medical Staff Briefing discussed how physicians can use social media to enhance their practices by communicating with current patients, attracting new patients, and sharing health tips with a large number of people quickly. But there can also be negative...
