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For Nurses Violence Is a Significant Workplace Concern
How can we protect nurses? A frequent answer is simply safety in numbers through adequate staffing, but thoughtful design of the patient care environment is also a key to prevention.
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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.
April 1st, 2021
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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.
April 1st, 2021
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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.
April 1st, 2021
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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.
April 1st, 2021
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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.
April 1st, 2021
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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.
April 1st, 2021
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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.
April 1st, 2021
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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
April 1st, 2021
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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).
April 1st, 2021
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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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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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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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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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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.