Credentialing, privileging, and nursing bylaws. Assuring accountability.
One of the major activities of a professional group is credentialing and privileging their membership to practice their profession. This article reviews one approach to the development of a hospital nursing credentialing and privileging mechanism: the shared governance. The process discussed focuses on staff responsibility for the appropriate credentialing of their nursing peers.
D003249:Constitution and Bylaws; D003406:Credentialing; D006801:Humans; D008504:Medical Staff Privileges; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States