Daily news reports highlight the growing need for increased medical care of the Baby Boomer generation. Within your medical staff community though, the discussion is probably not focused on the Baby Boomers as patients, but rather as the ones providing the care.
Practitioners’ scopes of practice are primarily established by the state, rather than the federal, government. Hospitals then determine allowed practice parameters within state boundaries. In other words, if a state has expanded the scope of an advanced practice professional’s (APP) practice,...
This week, CRC Daily covers advanced practice providers (APP). Today, we explore how APPs’ growing presence on the medical staff is helping reshape traditional compliance approaches in a fundamental practice: the medical history and physical examination (H&P).
Emergency privileges are not disaster privileges (and they’re not clinical privileges in emergency medicine). Nor are they defined in accreditation standards. Emergency privileges are simply temporary privileges granted in an urgent situation.
