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Education is Vital for Controlling Communicable Disease Outbreaks: AACN

AACN Shares How Education is Vital for Controlling Communicable Disease Outbreaks. The highly publicized 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak reinforced the importance of critical care knowledge, skill, and teamwork in uncertain situations to the entire healthcare community.

April 01, 2021

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Provider Enrollment Solutions Vital for Hospital Revenue Cycle Management: White Paper

In this White Paper, HealthStream examines the new environment for Provider Enrollment and its implications for hospital and health system leaders. We present new research collected in early 2015 by HealthStream from 130 hospital and health system credentialing executives throughout the U.S. who indicate that improving the Provider Enrollment function is a high priority in their organizations.

April 01, 2021

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A New Way to Think About Conflicts of Interest in Medicine

On August 31st Health Economist Austin Frakt published an article in in the New York Times “TheUpshot” column suggesting “A New Way to Think About Conflicts of Interest in Medicine”.

April 01, 2021

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Bringing Rounding to the Forefront of Healthcare Workforce Development

Rounding is one of the primary activities in which nurses engage to check on patients and their recoveries. With digital tools such as Orchid, nurse satisfaction can increase upwards of 50%, and organizations have a greater ability to make lasting improvements.

April 01, 2021

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Understanding Compliance for ADA and Section 508 Regulations

Several years ago, we started getting inquiries for our billing, security, and workforce compliance courses to be made compliant with ADA and 508 regulations. In particular, customers were expressing interest in the standards set forth by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as well as by the ADA.

April 01, 2021

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Improve Patient Outcomes with Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support

EBSCO Health provides users with a wide array of content covering over 50 nursing specialties, leadership, management, culturally competent care, and more.

April 01, 2021

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Relationship-Based Precepting: Defined & Why It Matters in Healthcare

I recently conducted a preceptor focus group of 35 preceptors at a hospital in the Southern region of the United States. Preceptors in this focus group, who came from multiple specialty areas, reported not feeling adequately prepared to teach or facilitate critical thinking or clinical judgment.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Professional, Are YOU a Member of The A-Team?

Effective teamwork is more than just a “nice to have.” It is essential for safety, retention, continuity of care, positive patient/family experiences, and overall effectiveness.

April 01, 2021

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Relationship-Based Care and Oil Changes: A Lesson for Healthcare

Last week I saw Relationship-Based Care in action, and I wasn’t in a hospital.

April 01, 2021

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Education Is Not Always the Answer in Healthcare

When mistakes and errors occur in our organizations, it is our obligation to analyze these problems and assess the reason(s) why they occurred. These problems have many different names: sentinel events, incident reports, near misses, etc.

April 01, 2021

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Performance Review and Competency Assessment: How They Fit Together

Performance appraisal and competency assessment fall into the same basic family, but they also have some differences. Performance appraisal often refers to the overall employee evaluation

April 01, 2021

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Better Preceptors Promote an Engaged and Competent Nursing Workforce

There has been plenty written on developing an engaged workforce with recommendations that point to hiring the right people in the first place (Bowen, Ledford, Nathan, 2013, and Kristof, 2006). The importance of manager competence in screening, interviewing, and identifying the personal characteristics and competencies of individuals who will best complement their teams cannot be overstated.

April 01, 2021

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Why Primary Nursing has Everything to do with Professional Practice

When I first heard Marie Manthey state, “Primary Nursing is the only care delivery system that nails professional practice,” I wanted to know more. At the time I’d just begun what was to become an intense interest, belief, and later a transference of information to care providers about this way of delivering care to those experiencing illness, a procedure/surgery, or wellness care.

April 01, 2021

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Focus on What Matters in Patient Surveys: The Person, Not the Score

There has never been a time in our history with greater focus or energy on how patients are experiencing their care. In a recent Beryl Institute study, 70% of CEOs identified the patient experience as being among their top three priorities for organizational excellence and success.

April 01, 2021

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Making Healthcare Staff Meetings More Engaging

Here’s an issue that managers across the health care spectrum deal with all the time: Today is the monthly leadership meeting for our organization. The agenda was posted yesterday and includes a review of the following items:

April 01, 2021

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5 Essentials of Nursing Orientation

Learn about 5 essentials of nursing orientation and its pivotal role in the competency and retention of newly hired registered nurses, from HealthStream.

April 01, 2021

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Nurse Managers: The Formula for Building Strong Teams

I believe Nurse Managers have the toughest job on the planet. They are accountable for operations, budget, staff satisfaction, patient satisfaction, staffing, quality outcomes—heck, all outcomes!

April 01, 2021

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The Faces of Sepsis: Could It Be You or Your Loved One?

This guest blog from our partner, Medical Simulation Corporation, is published in support of World Sepsis Day, whose goal is to reduce the global incidence of sepsis by 20% by 2020.

April 01, 2021

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Access Precyse Physician Office ICD-10 Education Now Via HealthStream

Through its partnership with HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM), Precyse University, the most innovative, complete and widely adopted on-site, online and mobile ICD-10 education solution, has launched a powerful and unique ICD-10 education program for the physician office/ambulatory market.

April 01, 2021

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Differentiating Between Healthcare Performance and Education Issues

As a young nursing professional development specialist I learned a very valuable lesson: It’s extremely important to understand exactly what the desired outcome of an educational program is.

April 01, 2021