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Tip of the week: Inclusiveness rules when developing core privileging criteria

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, February 14, 2008

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When making the decision to move to a core privileging system, and during the process of developing each core, organizations should ensure that there is ample communication among everyone participating in the core privileging process. The process would be designed by the organization to include those practitioners who want to be involved and can make a contribution to the design of core privileges. The medical staff leadership should do everything possible to help everyone involved feel included in the process. Invite practitioners to open meetings to discuss the core privileging process and send written or electronic drafts of each core to everyone who might have an interest in them.

However, even if a significant effort is made to involve every practitioner in the process, there will almost always be at least one practitioner who will question the development or content of the draft core in his or her specialty. "Who did you meet with, and why wasn't it me?" he or she might ask. This response is predictable, and it would be appropriate to respond by telling the practitioner that he or she had plenty of opportunities to help develop the core description for the specialty and to list those opportunities.

This week's tip is from Core Privileges for Physicians, Fourth Edition: A Practical Approach to Developing and Implementing Criteria-Based Privileges, (HCPro, Inc.) by Wendy Crimp, RN, BSN, MBA, CPHQ; Sally J. Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS; Vicki L. Searcy, CPMSM; and Mark Smith, MD, MBA, FACS, available here.

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