The Medical Staff's Guide to Overcoming Competence Assessment Challenges

From advanced practice professionals to telemedicine providers, The Medical Staff's Guide to Overcoming Competence Assessment Challenges will walk you through every step of collecting performance data to ensure quality of care and comply with accreditors standards. Our expert MSPs, including Sally Pelletier, Carol Cairns, Anne Roberts, and Frances Ponsioen, address many of the common challenges that medical services professionals face when collecting performance data. Never again wonder whether your organization has covered all its bases ensure compliance and practitioner competence with this new book.

This resource will help you:

- Create strategies to collect performance data for telemedicine providers, advanced practice professionals, low- and no-volume providers, practitioners in the ambulatory setting, and single practitioners in a specialty
- Differentiate between medical staff membership and privileges
- Attribute performance data to the correct practitioner
- Determine when new technology, procedures, or techniques are appropriate for your facility and successfully assess the competence of the practitioners who will be using them
- Update your medical staff bylaws, policies, and procedures to reflect changes to competency assessment requirements

Take a look at the table of contents:

Chapter 1: Competence Assessment for Initial Appointment
Chapter 2: Assessing Competence in the Ambulatory Setting
Chapter 3: Temporary Privileges for Patient Care Needs
Chapter 4: Attribution Challenges
Chapter 5: Ongoing Competence Challenges and Validation at Reappointment
Chapter 6: Assessing the Competence of APPs
Chapter 7: How to Manage the Expanding Role of APPs
Chapter 8: Assessing the Competence of Telemedicine Providers
Chapter 9: Assessing a Single Practitioner in a Specialty Area
Chapter 10: New Technology, Services, and Procedures
Chapter 11: Low- and No-Volume Practitioners
Chapter 12: Selective Practice Affecting Competence, Privileges, and Call Coverage