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More importantly, just increasing the number of nurses isn’t going to be a solution. Healthcare is changing, and we are going to need nurses who can play different roles and have different skillsets.
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The U.S. Opioid Crisis: How Bad Is It?
The scientific literature perspective that opioids produced low rates of addiction and were relatively safe has fueled the problem. The tendency to prescribe opioids alongside aggressive marketing approaches has proven to accelerate our nation’s dependency on opioids.
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Rapid Mobilization Was Key to Successful Emergency Care after the Las Vegas Shooting
Around 120 ambulances per day pull up to Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Las Vegas, NV. But even the busiest facility in Nevada couldn’t be fully prepared for what was coming, says Dr. Scherr.
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Alignment Is an Essential Foundation for Healthcare Organizations’ Goal Setting
Many organizations fail at vertical and horizontal alignment of goals, leaving employees confused as to what is expected of them, resulting in a lack of engagement in organizational goals and lack of positive outcomes.
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The Real Focus of Healthcare is Moving Outside the Hospital to Outpatient Care
The move to outpatient dominance requires that leaders adopt a new mindset when thinking about how healthcare is delivered. Following are several trends that may help advance your thinking and inform decision-making in your organization.
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Four Factors Contributing to High Turnover in Healthcare
While seeking to address the issue of healthcare staff turnover, it is imperative to identify exactly the factors contributing to this phenomenon. Various qualitative studies worldwide have surveyed some common reasons for staff turnover in hospitals.
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Understanding the Importance of HCC Capture in At-Risk Contracts
As hospitals take on more at-risk contracts in the value-based payment era, it is increasingly important that financial officers understand HCC capture and how the health status of contracted populations is calculated. Appropriately documenting and coding a patient’s full illness burden is essential to the financial health of hospitals.
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Seven Best Practices to Improve Patient Outcomes in the Emergency Department
While there is no simple answer or one-size-fits-all solution for improving ED operations and flow, here are some proven principles to consider to enhance efficiency and reduce overall turnaround times.
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Focus on OB Health and Risk by Using Data to Improve Fetal Monitoring
Strengthening EFM competency is vital for improving obstetrics care quality and reducing risk. The EFM Series’ data analytics allows clinical leaders to leverage HealthStream’s control center technology to determine learning performance and identify risk or need for remediation.
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The Imperative for Providing Culturally Sensitive Nursing Care
Regardless of an individual’s cultural beliefs and practices, nurses have an inherent obligation to provide equal and ethical care to all patients.
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The Challenges of Care Transitions and Best Practices Resources
A number of research studies have illustrated processes and activities that hospitals can undertake to lower readmissions, including better discharge processes and better coordination of care with post-acute facilities and primary care doctors
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.