Credentialing process

Assist the Labor Pool Credentialing Team Leader with problems encountered in the volunteer credentialing process. ... 

Other than directly targeting energy at specific molecules, hence reducing energy consumption, photochemical processes have several other green credentials ... 

A related version of this process occurred with the composition of the National Assessment Synthesis Team, which coordinated the National Assessment. Only two members of the team were credentialed climatologists, and a clear majority was not technically disposed to provide criticism of the climate models that formed the basis of the Assessment. This circumstance created the debacle described in this chapter. 

Some trade organizations and technical societies were invited to submit nominees for membership in WRISE and 20 individuals have been selected as initial Institute members. All possess credentials of accomplishment in pollution prevention, show evidence of a continuing interest in environmental protection and are, or have been, responsible for plant management or process design/selection or are highly knowledgeable of industrial operations for which waste reduction techniques are applicable. 

Use of consultants (if appropriate) and assessment of their credentials—With all the outsourcing of activities and expertise occurring in pharmaceutical and other industries, it is not unreasonable to evaluate and document the qualifications of consultants who are involved in many activities in the pharmaceutical facility that can and will have CGMP impact on facilities, processes, and procedures. This would include but not be limited to some of the following examples ... 

Ketonic decarboxylation, in which two molecules of acid are thermally converted to a symmetrical ketone plus carbon dioxide and water, has been reviewed.316 Radical, f >-keto acid, and concerted mechanisms are considered, with the reviewer favouring the last, albeit not conclusively. It is suggested that development of bifunctional catalysts may be the best way to improve the energetics of the process, and hence its synthetic utility and green credentials. 

The successful results and the green credentials of the process (water as cosolvent and only the nontoxic titanium dioxide as final residue) make this reaction an excellent, cheaper, and favorable alternative to the classical Strecker synthesis, which also requires the hydrolysis of cyanide to the amido group (Scheme 14.8c). 

Photochemical processes have several green credentials. Photons are very clean reagents, leaving no residues. Many often use fewer raw materials. Since energy is more directed, reaction temperatures are generally low. This may give higher... 

As discussed earlier, the future of journals is clearly electronic. However, there are many reasons why journal articles are problematic in comparison to other documents such as web pages and databases. First, most chemistry journals (with the notable exception of Chemistry Central Journal, www.journal.chemistrycentral. com) are not open access, and thus the content of articles is restricted by the publishers. Although most universities and large organizations have institutional subscriptions to the popular journals, access usually requires validation on computer IP addresses or the use of private login credentials. Thus, automated access to this information by a computer is difficult. Further, it is unclear whether the terms under which journal articles are made available permit automated processing of the content... 

Credentialing (1) The process by which an organization or institution obtains, verifies, and assesses a pharmacist s qualifications to provide patient care services. (2) The process of granting a credential (a designation that indicates qualifications in a subject or an area). 

Privileging The process by which a health care organization, having reviewed an individual health care provider s credentials and performance and found them satisfactory, authorizes the individual to perform a specific scope of patient care services within the organization. 

The accumulation of scientific knowledge is an additive process in which short steps of progress are created out of techniques and concepts already in existence. In this manner, a scientist will propose theories to the relevant community with the knowledge, and stoic acceptance, that these facts will be re-examined and redefined by a number of subsequent investigators. .. In science, facts arise only as a result of collective acceptance. .. good science is defined by consensus, not by credentials. The scientific community rightly treats new theories with skepticism, an attitude which does not reflect on the proponent of the theory but on the training of the scientific community. 

Added Qualifications is the mechanism used by BPS to recognize further differentiation within a specialty which the Board has already recognized. This distinction may be granted to a BPS-certified specialist on the basis of a structured portfolio review process, administered by the Specialty Council responsible for the specialty. The first petition for Added Qualifications was in Infectious Diseases and was approved by the Pharmacotherapy Specialty Council and BPS in 1999. The first candidates were conferred the Added Qualifications in Infectious Diseases credential in 2000. A petition for Added Qualifications in Cardiology was approved in 2000, and the first candidates were conferred the. Added Qualifications in Cardiology Pharmacotherapy credential in 2001. 

Credentialing The process by which an organization or institution obtains, verifies, and assesses a pharmacist s qualifications to provide patient care services. 

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