Credentialing and privileging ensure skilled care.
The Joint Commission requires credentialing and privileging for all licensed independent practitioners to guarantee their qualifications and define the parameters of their practice.
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Small inhibitory RNA--a tool for credentialing candidate genes.
The effect of a drug is related to the interaction of the numerous gene products that participate in a drug pathway. The clinical importance of genetic variability on the overall outcome of most drug pathways remains to be determined. As a result, there is a need to efficiently identify the genes that not only participate in the pathway but also play a significant role in regulating the effects of a drug. The emerging technique of specific gene silencing through RNA interference initiated by small inhibitory RNA may prove to be a useful and powerful tool in the credentialing of candidate genes in drug pathways.
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Competency, board certification, credentialing, and specialization: who benefits?
Pharmacists are concerned with the rapid changes in the healthcare system and what the requirements will be for a pharmacist in the near future. The emergence of board certification, credentialing, and other certification programs for pharmacists are causing significant concern among pharmacists. Pharmacists must assess certification programs and decide on the value of certification to their careers and to the patients they serve. Employers of pharmacists and those paying for healthcare and pharmacy services must also evaluate the value of pharmacists certification. Perhaps the most direct and significant benefit of pharmacist certification lies in the ability of the pharmacist to provide better and more comprehensive care to patients or selected groups of patients (eg, diabetic patients). Better and more comprehensive care provided by a pharmacist benefits the patient, other healthcare professionals, the healthcare system generally, and payers of healthcare and pharmacy services. Demonstrated competence of the pharmacist to provide pharmaceutical care is essential to achieving this benefit. Board certification of pharmacists in current board-recognized specialty areas of nutrition support pharmacy, pharmacotherapy, psychiatric pharmacy, nuclear pharmacy, and oncology pharmacy totaled 2075 board certified pharmacists in the United States as of January 1997.
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A system to define allied health duties, check credentials.
With the growing number of allied health personnel in hospitals comes the need to control the quality of patient care on a variety of levels. The diversity of backgrounds and the uncertainty of functions put allied health care workers in a precarious position among the medical and nursing staffs. One hospital's method of assessing the credentials and defining the duties of these workers is presented.
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Licensure, credentialing, or registration? Drawing the lines pro and con.
In California, legislation that would give respiratory therapists legal credentialing has a 50-50 chance of enactment, say proponents. Therapists in Michigan are pinning their hopes on title licensure. In Utah a licensing bill for RTs is being rewritten. Arguments by both sides of the issue are presented here.
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Certification and credentialing to define competency-based practice.
One of the challenges that healthcare organizations face today is how to effectively establish, document, and evaluate competency in intravenous practice. The process used to define practice parameters based on national certification and credentialing versus organizational policies is described. Key attributes, the role of mentoring, and adverse outcomes are addressed.
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DONs in long-term care facilities: contemporary roles, current credentials, and educational needs.
The need for educated nursing leaders in long-term care facilities is critical now and will continue to be well into this century. The purpose of this research was to replicate and geographically extend a descriptive survey conducted by Heine (1995) to determine the roles and responsibilities of directors of nursing (DONs) in long-term care nursing facilities (LTCNF) as well as their educational preparation, current professional credentials, and educational needs. 945 DONs in LTCNF in New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont) as identified in state directories of nursing home facilities were surveyed. Completed questionnaires were returned by 247 DONs for an overall response rate of 26%. DONs in LTCNF reported that they were most involved in roles/responsibilities related to nursing/health services management and least involved in professional nursing and long-term care management.
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AHA looks at nurse credentialing.
AHA's National Conference on Categories or Nursing Practice explores the weaknesses and strengths of the credentialing system and the ramifications of proposed changes.
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Credentialing in the clinical laboratory sciences.
There are essentially two types of credentialing. One recognizes the competence of educational programs to prepare personnel and is generally referred to as accreditation. The second recognizes the competence of individuals to deliver services and includes the processes of certification, licensure, and registration.
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Credentialing of critical care nurses.
Given the changing health care environment, it is important to review the evolution of the CCRN certification program, and to address future directions. Therefore, the author reviewed the process used to describe the practice of critical care nursing across a lifespan continuum, and explored the implications of, and issues surrounding, advanced practice and role-related credentialing for critical care nurses.
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Pre-admission credentials and dental school performance of dental hygienists.
This study examined the effect of dental hygiene preparation prior to entering dental school on dental school performance. Study participants included 203 female students who entered a public dental school from 1980-1989. Groups 1 and 2 had completed dental school prerequisites and a dental hygiene curriculum in a community college setting (n = 19) or university setting (n = 22) respectively, and Group 3 (n = 162) were traditional students with no dental hygiene education. Preadmission variables were predental science and non-science grade point averages (GPA) and Dental Admission Test (DAT) scores. Performance variables were GPA of years one and two of dental school and National Board scores (Part 1). Results showed that Group 2 hygienists had significantly lower predental science GPAs than Group 1 or 3 and significantly lower non-science GPAs than Group 3 (p < 0). Both groups of hygienists had significantly lower DAT scores than Group 3 (p < 0). No difference was seen in first and second year GPAs or the National Board average. Adjusting performance scores to compensate for deficiencies in preadmission variables showed that Group 2 hygienists had significantly higher adjusted first-year GPAs and National Board averages than Group 3 (p < 0). Thus, hygienists performed as well as non-hygienists in spite of weaker admission credentials.
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History of the Medical Library Association's credentialing program.
Since the Medical Library Association (MLA) adopted the Code for the Training and Certification of Medical Librarians in 1949, MLA members have reviewed and revised the program regularly. This paper traces the history of MLA's professional recognition program to illustrate how the program has changed over time and to identify the issues that have surrounded it. These issues include the value of the program to individual members, cost to MLA, appropriate entry requirements, certification examinations, and recertification requirements. The development and operation of MLA's current credentialing program, the Academy of Health Information Professionals, is described in detail.
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Credentialing in advanced practice nursing.
Managed care, case management, and outcomes criteria have moved the practice of health care from the tertiary level to the outpatient settings. Advanced practice nurses (APNs) have adapted to these changes by modifying their practices to reflect general practice. With the increasing number of APNs, a credentialing process should be adopted at the state level to regulate the minimum academic requirements, continuing education, and inclusion into the nonphysician data bank on the national level.
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Credentialing specialty nursing practice: a dissenting view.
Orderly development of specialty practice has been a professional issue in Australian nursing since the 1991 visit of Dr Margretta Madden Styles of the International Council of Nurses. In response, the ANF established the National Nursing Organisations (NNOs)--leaders of about 60 national specialty groups who meet twice each year to ensure orderly development of specialty practice. The most recent issue raised in this forum was credentialing.
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Developing unit-specific credentialing.
A systematic plan can streamline the certification process. A self-directed team identified, developed and implemented the components needed to make the workload manageable. The actual process for developing a unit-based credentialing system in a special care unit is described.
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Principles of privileging and credentialing for endoscopy and colonoscopy.
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Guidelines for balloon valvuloplasty: credentials and training.
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Guidelines for training, credentialing, and maintenance of competence for the performance of coronary angioplasty: a report from the Interventional Cardiology Committee and the Training Program Standards Committee of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.
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