HSA-3020

Larin, K. (2019). Veterans Health administration: Greater focus on credentialing needed to prevent disqualified providers from delivering patient care. GAO Reports, i-97.

Read pages 1-31 of this article. This article details the importance of credentialing and how it can improve patient care.

McMichael, B. (2018, December). Beyond physicians: The effect of licensing and liability laws on the supply of nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 15, 732.

This article discusses the idea of expanding duties to other providers through licensing requirements to aid in a healthcare shortage. Thus, a student would take away from this that licensure laws while imperative to patient safety, could be too narrow in focus, in some ways.

McMullen, P. C., & Howie, W. O. (2020). Credentialing and privileging: A primer for nurse practitioners. Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 16(2), 91–95.

This is a brief primer on how facilities credential and privilege healthcare workers.

Rouse, M. J., Vlasses, P. H., & Webb, C. E. (2014). Credentialing and privileging of pharmacists: a resource paper from the Council on Credentialing in Pharmacy. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy : AJHP : Official Journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, 71 (21), 1891–1900.

Similar to the credentialing primer this speaks to credentialing and privileging pharmacists. This article breaks down the process. Interestingly, students will learn that this is relatively new for pharmacists.