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Six Ways Nursing Roles and Expectations Are Changing

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.

April 1st, 2021

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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.

April 1st, 2021

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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.

April 1st, 2021

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Education and Training Are Vital to Address Medical Coder Staffing Issues

The medical-coding staffing crisis has many causes, and so will require a multifaceted effort to create solutions around the immediate needs as well as preventing future problems.

April 1st, 2021

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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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Biometrics: Patient Identification is Only the Beginning

While most providers rely on registrars to initiate a search of the MPI to assure positive patient identification, biometric scanning technology exists that can provide a more reliable and much faster approach.

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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Effective CPR Training and Workplace Integration Requires Executive Support

Executive buy-in is a core component of a competent, continual and comprehensive CPR training system for healthcare workplaces.

April 1st, 2021

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Good Communication is Vital to Improving Care Transitions in Frail Geriatric Patients

When care transitions are being planned, every member of the care team should listen to the patient and the family. By placing the patient and family at the center, the team can facilitate a good transition and an effective plan of care for frail geriatric patients.

April 1st, 2021

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Don’t Forget Staff Engagement When Working on Patient Safety Initiatives

We asked two leaders in patient safety about how they engaged staff in patient safety initiatives, and they both agreed that employee engagement with their efforts was a key to success, sharing, “You can have the best plans, but the real work happens at the bedside.

April 1st, 2021

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Customer or Patient: the Word You Use and the Matter of Trust

Are they customers or patients? Dr. John Boornazian explains the difference. People may approach the continuum of care as customers, but when they develop trusting relationships with healthcare professionals, they become patients.

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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Is Your Practice Prepared for MACRA?

Value-based purchasing is part of CMS’s quality strategy to reform how healthcare is delivered and paid for by the Medicare program. Once fully implemented, MIPS-eligible clinicians face a positive or negative 9% payment adjustment. For most practices that penalty structure will be unsustainable in the long run. That’s why it is critical for practices impacted by this program take steps now to prepare for 2017 reporting. If you haven’t done so already, we encourage you to talk with your HealthStream team to learn how we can help you satisfy MIPS reporting requirements.

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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