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The Bedside Shift Report from the Patient’s Perspective
A positive transformation occurs in patient’s perception of their care when touch is added to a task. That is certainly true with the Bedside Shift Report (BSSR).
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Continuing Education is Important for Nurses and Everyone Else in Healthcare
The orientation towards lifelong learning may be one of the most important competencies healthcare staff must possess for future success, and it will be up to employers to harness and engage new generations in untold and different ways.
April 1st, 2021
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Helping Medical Associations Avoid Conflicts of Interest: Case Study
In order to maintain their reputations for integrity and impartiality, medical associations for all kinds of specialties have to be vigilant about avoiding and identifying conflicts of interest among their members.
April 1st, 2021
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What Can We Learn from the Latest “Open Payments” Data?
While it is difficult to draw conclusions based on the year to year fluctuations in data from the Open Payments Database, we can begin to see trends by analyzing the data over three years.
April 1st, 2021
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HR Analytics Are Essential for Driving Organizational Performance in Healthcare
It has never been more important for your Human Resources Department to know the business and to step up as an integral component to the success of your healthcare organization. HR leadership must be able to validate their value and be able to speak in quantitative, objective terms.
April 1st, 2021
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Solving Revenue Cycle Staffing and Hiring Shortages with the nThrive Transitions Program
Revenue cycle roles such as Patient Access reps, CDI Specialists, and other revenue cycle roles are either short in supply or limited on what they have available for qualified professionals in their market. The Transitions Program from nThrive can help solve this problem.
April 1st, 2021
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Competency Must Be an Integral Part of the Privileging Process
Hospitals have been granting clinical privileges for approximately 40-50 years, but for much of that time period, privileging systems have not addressed current clinical competency in any meaningful way. In recent years this has been changing, by necessity.
April 1st, 2021
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Creating a culture of safety – a leadership alert
The Joint Commission has found inadequate safety culture to be a significant contributing factor to adverse outcomes. To support this finding, it recently emphasized the need for healthcare leadership to create an effective culture of safety.
April 1st, 2021
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Improving Provider Data Management Through Consolidation Creates Success
BJC’s story of operating a single database is not unheard of, but their system is more advanced than what most healthcare organizations use, making them stand out as a leader in the industry.
April 1st, 2021
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Three Perspectives on Public Safety Through the Lens of Trauma
Public safety is a particularly pointed issue for orthopedic trauma surgeons. Any solutions that can be tried in an effort to reduce the awful impact of bad decision-making should be considered.
April 1st, 2021
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Competency is Essential Throughout Every Healthcare Organization
Competencies ensure the right people at the right level of your organization are equipped to achieve optimal performance outcomes. Successful competencies align with the organizational goals and individual performance evaluations, and are used to build a coaching culture.
April 1st, 2021
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Training and Education are Key to OB Risk Reduction
Why is it important to focus on OB risk reduction education? By 2013 the Lancet estimated that our maternal mortality rate was as high as 18.5 per 100,000, thus dropping us to 60th in the world.
April 1st, 2021
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The Need to Improve Patient Financial Communications
There’s a growing need for providers to have meaningful conversations with patients and their families about out-of-pocket costs for care and service. But many providers find themselves unprepared to have such discussions.
April 1st, 2021
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Podcast: Cultures and Strategies That Support Patient Safety
The number of topics to cover when on-boarding new employees can be dizzying, but a changing healthcare environment makes it increasingly important to make sure that patient safety and quality expectations remain an important part of the on-boarding process.
April 1st, 2021
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Committing to Patient-Centered Care and Patient Safety: Podcast
What started [the move to patient advisors and patient-centered care] was a story from a staff member whose family member, her younger brother, had been a patient in our hospital.
April 1st, 2021
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Challenges In Nursing Facilities: Best Practices
Here are some current issues and industry changes as well as some solutions that will continue to be big challenges in nursing facilities (SNFs), from HealthStream.
April 1st, 2021
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A Blended Learning Approach to Improving Patient Outcomes and Experiences
Every healthcare organization wants to create an optimal experience for patients and visitors. While there are nuances involved in the way adults prefer to learn, the vast majority benefit from various learning models that employ variety and choice in their approaches.
April 1st, 2021
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Four Ways to Improve Patient-Provider Communication
Poor communication can increase medical errors and hospital readmission rates for patients with chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure and diabetes as well as lead to misuse of medications.
April 1st, 2021
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Beyond Managing: Leadership for Healthcare Teams
Healthcare is becoming more complex and specialized, with increased demand for complex health services and fast adoption of new methods. These trends have forced providers take a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare, including a greater need for effective, integrative teams.
April 1st, 2021
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Six Things You Need to Know About End of Life Care
Our healthcare model pushes to extend life, even if it comes at a high cost and sacrifices the quality of the patient’s remainder of life. These six observations focus on the latest developments surrounding care at the end of life.