Kick off your career with the fun way to learn credentialing!
Most credentialing specialists and MSPs must hit the ground running and train on the job. Whether trained by peers or directors—or even on their own—medical staff professionals (MSPs) and new staff in the medical staff office need quality training. Without it, the entire organization is at risk for negligent credentialing and lost productivity.
Get an easy-to-use, fun way to train on a wide array of MSP responsibilities.
Ready, Set, Credential! Questions, Games, and Other Strategies to Train Your Staff, Second Edition, is jam-packed with tips, questions and answers, notes from peers, and games, creating the ideal training tool for MSPs. This book and CD-ROM set provides a low-cost, easily accessible means to help your MSO stay on top of the latest standards and regulations.
Don’t waste time in unfocused training sessions. Use this resource to learn what you want, when you want.
This resource will help you train yourself, or train others, to:
- Master the essentials of credentialing and privileging
- Work with committees, boards, and other administrative bodies
- Become familiar with the Joint Commission, NCQA, and other accrediting bodies
- Avoid negligent credentialing
- Understand the ins-and-outs of the MSP’s multi-faceted role
- Keep up with evolving standards and regulations
Get the ultimate training manual for MSPs.
Ready, Set, Credential! covers the latest topics and tasks MSPs need to master, including:
- Assessing physician and AHP competency
- FPPE and OPPE
- Privileging trends, including core privileging
- Peer review and recommendations
- Joint Commission, NCQA, and CMS regulations
- Medical record documentation
- Reappointment
- Confidentiality
- Legal issues for MSPs
- Special circumstances
- MSP career development
You’ll also receive training tools to use as a fun refresher and a quick reference on evergreen topics.
Check out the table of contents:
Section 1: Information about your new job
- What is credentialing?
- The medical staff professional and credentialing
- Accrediting agencies and national data banks
- What is privileging?
- MSPs’ relationship with AHPs
- Assessing physician competency
- Understanding peer recommendations and review
- Reappointment
- Legal responsibilities
- Special circumstances
- Looking ahead: Your career as a medical staff professional
Section II: Games and tools for credentialing training
Section III: Forms and figures
- The credentialing process flow chart
- Initial application checklist
- Sample verbal verification form
- Elements of a credentials file
- The privileging process flow chart
- Sample laundry list privileging form
- Sample core privileging form
- AHP credentialing flow chart
- Sample AHP policy
- Sample focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) policy
- Sample ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) policy
- Sample reapplication checklist
- Sample medical staff confidentiality policy
- Sample request for disaster privileges
Earn continuing education credits!
This program has been approved by the National Association Medical Staff Services for up to 6 continuing education credits. Accreditation of this educational program in no way implies endorsement or sponsorship by NAMSS.
Who will benefit?
- Medical staff services professionals
- Medical staff coordinators
- Credentialing coordinators
- Risk managers
- Medical staff leaders
- Credentialing specialists
Use Ready, Set, Credential! as an orientation guide to your new career as a medical staff professional, or use it to train recently hired staff members. Either way, this is one training resource your MSO can’t afford to be without!
Make MSP training effective and lasting. Order today!
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