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Understanding the Importance of Healthcare Competency Assessment Programs

Healthcare organizations understand that they need to evaluate competency, the demonstration of appropriate knowledge, skills, and behaviors in a clinical setting. Competency Programs involve validating the multiple facets of any identified, required competency.

April 1st, 2021

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Four Webinar Recordings Focused on the Continuum of Care

Solving big problems in healthcare, like staff retention, leadership shortages, and onboarding, is a principle enshrined in our corporate constitution. Here are links to recorded HealthStream Webinars about improving outcomes by solving continuum of care problems.

April 1st, 2021

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Ten Ways to Embrace Civility in the Healthcare Workplace

In a recent HealthStream webinar, How to Banish the Bully Who Wreaks Havoc in Healthcare, Linda Leekley, CEO and founder of In the Know, offers ten ways to embrace civility at work, including her secret weapon phrase, ‘Up until now.’

April 1st, 2021

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The Benefits of Civility Training to Counteract Healthcare Workplace Bullying

In a recent HealthStream webinar, How to Banish the Bully Who Wreaks Havoc in Healthcare, Linda Leekley, CEO and founder of In the Know, points out numerous benefits of workplace civility training for healthcare organizations—for patients and the organizations themselves.

April 1st, 2021

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Four Reasons to Focus on Patient Access Education to Improve Revenue Cycle

In a recent HealthStream Webinar, “Thinking Outside the Box: Leveraging Education to Drive Patient Access Initiatives,” two revenue cycle staffing experts offered four reasons patient access training merits a stronger focus.

April 1st, 2021

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Nominate Your Organization for a HealthStream Award of Excellence Through June 22, 2018

HealthStream’s Awards of Excellence® spotlight innovative programs and superior leadership that support organizational excellence, workforce development, employee engagement, and more. Nominations accepted through June 22, 2018!

April 1st, 2021

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Best Practices for Reducing Conflicts of Interest (COI) Risk in Healthcare

Compliance with government regulations and ethical concerns demand that healthcare institutions and researchers diligently disclose every conflict of interest (COI). Organizations must take steps develop a management and mitigation plan that prevents biased medical decision-making.

April 1st, 2021

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Understanding the Accreditation of Nursing Transition of Practice Programs

Nurse residency programs offer a much-needed opportunity for new nurses to transition to roles in specialized areas. To be accredited demonstrates innovation or exemplary practice.

April 1st, 2021

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Building Skills and Confidence in CPR

Developing caregivers to provide high-quality CPR should include regular training and measurement-based feedback. One training solution may be to adopt a NASCAR style approach—training the team to perform like a pit crew.

April 1st, 2021

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Healthcare Workforce Trends: Millennials Are Changing and Improving Healthcare

We are also approaching a situation where millennials will make up the largest percentage of the healthcare workforce, bringing a new focus to the future of care.

April 1st, 2021

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Work-life Balance in a Nursing Career

Nurses can have an especially difficult time balancing work and personal life because of the increased amount of physical and emotional stress that nurses experience.

April 1st, 2021

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The Benefits of Nurse Residency Program Accreditation

In a recent conversation about nurse residency programs, HealthStream’s Kimberly Herold, Director of Professional Development Pathways, and Kimberley Guthrie, Senior Pathways Engagement Coach, spoke about the value of accreditation.

April 1st, 2021

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Surviving the Impending Shakeout in Non-Acute Care

Not every post and non-acute provider that exists in the marketplace today will survive the transition to a pay-for-performance system.

April 1st, 2021

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Surviving the Impending Value-based Shakeout in Non-Acute Care

Not every post and non-acute provider that exists in the marketplace today will survive the transition to a pay-for-performance system. Here are some areas where they should be focusing improvement efforts.

April 1st, 2021

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Solutions for Drug Diversion’s Role in the Opioid Crisis

Most reports on the opioid crisis in America focus on individuals who receive a prescription for an opioid pain killer and then become a victim of opioid dependence. But what about the issue of dependence that occurs within the walls of the hospital, connected to Drug Diversion?

April 1st, 2021

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The Looming Nurse Leadership Shortage—Are You Prepared?

The combination of an aging nursing population and not enough new nurses coming in to fill those roles plays a large part in today’s nursing shortage. With this nursing shortage there will come a shortage of nurse leaders.

April 1st, 2021

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The Impact of Patient Identification Errors

On average, hospitals have 30% of all claims denied and an average of 35% of these denied claims are attributed to inaccurate patient identification or inaccurate/incomplete patient information.

April 1st, 2021

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Prepare for Disruption as Demographic Changes Hit Non-Acute Care

Approximately 10,000 Baby Boomers are reaching the age of 65 every day. Research shows that these Boomers would prefer to age in place which means new and different opportunities will emerge in the post and non-acute markets to meet these needs.

April 1st, 2021

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The Opioid Crisis: A U.S. Problem and the Response of Clinicians and CMS

If the amount of opioids prescribed per year were averaged out over each person living in the U.S., everyone would get about a two-week supply. What should clinicians and CMS do?

April 1st, 2021

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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.

April 1st, 2021

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