title: Privileging nurses in a psychiatric hospital.
abstract: A privileging system was developed for the nursing department of the Connecticut Valley Hospital, a 658-bed public psychiatric facility in Middletown, Connecticut. The authors discuss the development of the privileging criteria, how the process works, and early responses and results.
mesh_terms: D003237:Connecticut; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008504:Medical Staff Privileges; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing