Discussion: Credentialing and Self-Regulation
Discussion: Credentialing and Self-Regulation
Licensing, Credentialing, and Self-Regulation
While professional licensing and credentialing are important aspects of the health care industry, self-regulation should not be overlooked. In this assignment, you will examine how self-regulation interacts with professional licensing and credentialing to provide a comprehensive plan for ensuring patient care quality and organizational sustainability.
General Conditions:
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This assignment requires at least two more scholarly research sources related to this topic, as well as at least one in-text citation from each source.
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Directions:
Investigate various professional licensing and credentialing bodies in health care to better understand their intended role in the industry.
Write a paper (1,000-1,250 words) evaluating the importance of professional credentialing in the health care industry. Include the following information in your paper:
A discussion of licensing and credentialing’s intended role.
A discussion of self-intended regulation’s role in relation to licensing and credentialing.
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An assessment of the impact of self-regulation, professional licensing and credentialing, and patient care quality on the sustainability of health care organizations.
Week 7 Assignment for HCA 812 Grand Canyon
You should proofread your paper. However, do not rely solely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part, and your grade will suffer as a result. Papers with a high number of misspelled words and grammatical errors will be penalized. Before submitting your paper, go over it in silence and then aloud, and make any necessary changes. It is often beneficial to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Uncorrected mistakes are preferable to handwritten corrections.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point typeface (10 to 12 characters per inch). Smaller or compressed type, as well as papers with narrow margins or single spacing, are difficult to read. It is preferable to allow your essay to exceed the recommended number of pages rather than attempting to compress it into fewer pages.
Large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are also unacceptable, waste trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced, and have a one-inch margin on all four sides of each page. When submitting hard copies, use white paper and print with dark ink. It will be difficult to follow your argument if it is difficult to read your essay.