Joint Commission Guide to Allied Health Professionals


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Learn about The Joint Commission's requirements for credentials review and competency assessment of allied health professionals in this guide. You?ll find a discussion of good practices and a selection of useful real-world examples you can adapt for your setting. Use the comprehensive and practical resources in the Joint Commission Guide to Allied Health Professionals to give your human resources professionals and allied health leaders the tools to help them stay on top of these important credentialing and competency issues. Special features include: sample job descriptions; credentialing checklists; competency assessment tools; and other tips, tools, strategies, and examples useful for HR professionals and allied health leaders.







Health Professions Education


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The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.




The Credentialing Handbook


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The Credentialing Handbook provides comprehensive, plain-English guida nce to understand and master the provider credentialing process in any health care setting. With sample forms, checklists, flowcharts, and c orrespondence, this practical guide walks you through every aspect of effective credentialing, appointment, and recredentialing. You'll lear n: key steps in the credentialing process; about express credentialin g models; how to credential allied health practitioners; typical time frames and tracking systems; pros and cons of delegating credentialin g, plus more.




Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions


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Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on health care than any other country. The absence of a comprehensive and well-integrated system of continuing education (CE) in the health professions is an important contributing factor to knowledge and performance deficiencies at the individual and system levels. To be most effective, health professionals at every stage of their careers must continue learning about advances in research and treatment in their fields (and related fields) in order to obtain and maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills in caring for their patients. Many health professionals regularly undertake a variety of efforts to stay up to date, but on a larger scale, the nation's approach to CE for health professionals fails to support the professions in their efforts to achieve and maintain proficiency. Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions illustrates a vision for a better system through a comprehensive approach of continuing professional development, and posits a framework upon which to develop a new, more effective system. The book also offers principles to guide the creation of a national continuing education institute.




Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes


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This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.




A Guide to AHP Credentialing


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Medical Staff Standards Crosswalk


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Medical Staff Standards Crosswalk: A Quick Reference Guide to The Joint Commission, CMS, HFAP, and DNV Standards Kathy Matzka Medical Staff Standards Crosswalk: A Quick Reference Guide to The Joint Commission, CMS, HFAP, and DNV Standards compares medical staff-relevant standards across four accreditation and regulatory bodies: DNV, HFAP, TJC, and CMS. It includes sample tools, forms, and policies to help you meet the goals of the standards no matter which accreditation body you use. This important reference concisely reviews all medical staff relevant standards to answer your medical staff compliance questions quickly and easily. Easily access, navigate, and compare the requirements of the four organizations at a glance The Joint Commission The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program DNV Accreditation Eliminate wasted time searching through multiple resources to find what you need. Take a look at the Table of Contents Chapter 1: Medical Staff Structure, Medical Staff Bylaws, and Medical Staff Involvement in Organizational Leadership Functions and Required Committees Medical Staff Structure and Accountability Medical Staff Leadership Required Committees Medical Staff Bylaws Medical Staff Involvement in Organizational Leadership Functions Chapter 2: Oversight of Patient Care, Treatment, and Services and Performance Improvement Oversight of Practitioners Periodic Appraisal/Focused and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation/Peer Review History and Physical Exams Consultation and Coordination of Care Medical Staff Quality Assessment/Performance Improvement Corrective Action, Ethics, and Behavioral Issues Autopsies Contracted Services Including Telemedicine Managing LIP Health Graduate Medical Education Programs Oversight of Emergency Services Oversight of Radiology Services Oversight of Nuclear Medicine Services Oversight of Anesthesia Services Oversight of Respiratory Care Services Chapter 3: Medical Staff Involvement in Patient-Focused Areas and Patient Therapeutic Services Orders for Restraints or Seclusion and Training Medical Staff Oversight of Medical Records Completion Medication Orders Formulary Admitting of Patients Policies for Blood Transfusions and IV Medications Medical Staff Involvement in Infection Control Medical Staff involvement in Dietary Services Operative or other high-risk procedures/the administration of moderate or deep sedation or anesthesia Tissue Earn continuing education credits! This program has been approved by the National Association Medical Staff Services for 5 continuing education units. Accreditation of this educational program in no way implies endorsement or sponsorship by NAMSS.




Verify and Comply


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Verify and Comply: A Quick Reference Guide to Credentialing Standards, Fifth Edition Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS The Joint Commission... NCQA... CMS... DNV... HFAP... Searchable and side-by-side! Verify and Comply, Fifth Edition, is the much anticipated next edition of one of HCPro's most popular credentialing resources. Many satisfied customers have used this resource to study for their NAMSS certification exams and to keep up to date with accreditors' credentialing standards. This newly expanded guide addresses Joint Commission, NCQA, and CMS standards in the book, as well as DNV and HFAP on the companion CD-ROM. That means five sets of accreditors' standards are side-by-side and searchable by topic on CD-ROM. Get the resource thousands of MSPs have come to rely on. It will help you: Easily access, navigate, and compare the requirements of all five organizations at a glance Eliminate wasted time searching through multiple resources to find what you need Stop struggling to interpret the standards on your own Understand the differences between the stages of the credentialing process--appointment, reappointment, and ongoing assessment Get answers to your credentialing questions quickly and easily Study for your CPCS and CPMSM certification exams No other resource for credentialing standards offers you this level of expertise and convenience. All five sets of standards side-by-side, organized by topic, on a searchable CD-ROM The Joint Commission NCQA CMS DNV HFAP Three sets of standards in print in the book (The Joint Commission, NCQA, and CMS) Straightforward, complete summaries of standards Expert interpretation of the standards Distinct sections that clarify the differences between each stage of the credentialing process A tips section that allows for further analysis Special notations to readers who are studying for the CPMSM/CPCS exams Who will benefit? Credentialing specialist/analyst Medical staff services coordinator Director of medical staff services Credentialing coordinator Credentialing manager Medical staff professional Survey coordinator Earn continuing education credits! This program has been approved by the National Association Medical Staff Services for up to 3.0 continuing education unit(s). Accreditation of this educational program in no way implies endorsement or sponsorship by NAMSS. Navigate credentialing standards faster and easier. Order your copy today.




The Future of Nursing


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The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.