AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
Sponsored by AHP Competencies: A Method for Effective Assessment
presented on November 15, 2006
Organizations often apply the credentialing process to healthcare professionals who aren't required to be credentialed. The credentialing process should be applied only to those healthcare professionals that provide complex care (such as physicians, dentists, podiatrists, PAs and advanced practice registered nurses). The HR process should be applied to all other individuals who are permitted to provide services in the facility.
Listen to this audioconference, From Physician-employed RNs to Scrub Techs: Navigating the JCAHO's 2007 Standards for Non-privileged AHPs. This audioconference explains how to transition non-privileged AHPs out of the medical staff organization’s “credentialing” path and into the HR “authorization” path to provide services.
PROGRAM AGENDA
- Clearly define the differences between those healthcare professionals that need to be credentialed/privileged and those that do not
- Make a case for why non-credentialed healthcare professionals should be dealt with via the HR process
- How to plan to transition non-credentialed AHPs out of the medical staff organization and into the HR process
- Developing a transition plan
- Dealing with issues related to how non-employed AHPs will be evaluated
- Establishing a hospital committee to provide oversight related to competency evaluations of AHPs who don’t “fit” into a specific department
- Q&A session
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this audioconference you will be able to
- distinguish what AHPs “belong” in the medical staff privileging process and what AHPs should be transitioned to the HR authorization process
- develop and implement a transition plan for those AHPs that will be moved from the medical staff office to HR
- create a committee to deal with issues that need oversight by a multi-disciplinary group
- develop nomenclature for the organization that is more descriptive that the terminology used today (i.e., AHP)
- illustrate the expectations for the depth of competencies required by non-credentialed AHPs
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
medical staff coordinators, HR directors, credentials coordinators, medical staff leaders, accreditation compliance directors, nursing leaders
FACULTY
Vicki L. Searcy, CPMSM
Practice Director, Credentialing & Privileging, The Greeley Company, a Division of HCPro, Inc. She is the former President of Searcy Resource Group, LLC. Since 1988, she has provided consulting services primarily in the areas of working with physicians and healthcare organization leadership on issues related to credentialing, privileging and quality, as well as interpretation and application of accreditation standards and licensing requirements. Ms. Searcy is a popular speaker and author. She is certified by the National Association Medical Staff Services as a CPMSM and a past president of NAMSS
Lisa Eddy, RN, CPHQ
A consultant with The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. with over 18 years of experience and expertise in healthcare regulatory compliance. She specializes in preparation for JCAHO, CMS, NCQA, URAC accreditation, certification and licensing survey for all healthcare entities with a focus on implementable correction plans for identified regulatory body deficiencies and JCAHO requirements for improvement. Ms. Eddy facilitates on-site projects and directs program development and implementation strategies for performance improvement and quality management systems. She conducts organizational assessments in all venues of care delivery through mock surveys and on-site project coordination and direction, including process system redesign.
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