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Use Alzheimer’s Awareness Month to Boost Awareness and Review Outreach Strategies

Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias continue to grow in prevalence among seniors, and providers need to step up efforts to identify issues early so appropriate care can be provided.

April 1st, 2021

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Key Lessons from the History of the Opioid Abuse Epidemic

The history of opioid use in the United States, especially the recent decades of abuse, tells us that the crisis wasn’t just an accident. Decisions were made by individuals and corporations that led to our current state of calamity, with certain key lessons for the healthcare industry.

April 1st, 2021

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Understanding Hospice Care, from Stages to Cost

HealthStream helps you to understand hospice care, including its different stages, treatments modalities, the levels of care, and the associated costs.

April 1st, 2021

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How to Avoid Government Audits Across the Continuum of Care

Government scrutiny of continuum care providers has not slowed down. Rather, its focus on this segment of the healthcare industry is keener than ever. There are ways that continuum care organizations can avoid being targeted for audits.

April 1st, 2021

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World Mental Health Day Means Time to Check in with Yourself

World Mental Health Day is the perfect time to take a look at the stressors in our lives and put in place some plans to lower that anxiety.

April 1st, 2021

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Celebrity HIPAA Breaches Affirm the Importance of Healthcare Compliance Training

HIPAA violations include large-scale data privacy breaches through cyberattacks as well as insider threats like celebrity information privacy violations by employees. Healthcare compliance training needs to address them all.

April 1st, 2021

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What Are the Options for Treating Opioid Addiction?

Opioid addiction is an unfortunate, common, and often tragic reality across the U.S. population. It’s important to know the options for treating addiction in case someone close to you needs help with overcoming this serious problem.

April 1st, 2021

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Clarifying Recent Changes To HIPAA

The recent changes to HIPAA is in the assessment of civil money penalties, which will now be based on the offender's level of culpability or accountability.

April 1st, 2021

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Optimize Community Awareness Efforts During Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Use National Breast Cancer Awareness Month to educate and inform staff and patients alike about the risks, research and preventive measures around breast cancer.

April 1st, 2021

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Code Of Conduct In Healthcare For Compliance

The code of conduct in healthcare is the cornerstone of any healthcare organization's compliance program and is an essential component of the institution's culture.

April 1st, 2021

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Do You Have a Transition Plan for Your Health System or Medical Group?

All healthcare organizations go through changes in resources, especially involving leaders. What can be done to reduce the stress during this period? Setting up processes and ensuring everyone complies with them can help.

April 1st, 2021

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2019 Annual Report on Managing Conflicts of Interest: White Paper

In this white paper, HCCS—A HealthStream Company, surveyed 281 healthcare compliance leaders throughout the U.S. to learn more about the compliance programs in their hospitals.

April 1st, 2021

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Utilize Malnutrition Awareness Week To Assess Community & Patient Engagement Strategies

Malnutrition Awareness Week is the perfect time for providers to assess when, and how, they probe a patients’ ability to obtain nutritious food, as well as explore community resources to help fill that need if necessary.

April 1st, 2021

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How Opioid Overdose Changes the Approach to Resuscitation Care

Cardiac arrest is a significant risk in opioid overdose—many narcotics involve a serious drop in respiratory rate, which can sometimes lead to cardiac arrest. Administering CPR and Naloxone may help to revive someone who has experienced cardiac arrest due to overdose.

April 1st, 2021

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Don’t Miss The Upcoming ANCC National Magnet Conference

The American Nurses Credentialing Center annual National Magnet Conference will be in Orlando, Fla., Oct. 10-12 and is a don’t-miss event for anyone in nursing or nursing leadership.

April 1st, 2021

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What Are the Levels of Hospice Care?

Patients in hospice care may need differing hospice levels of care, as the impact of disease progresses or their health condition worsens. Every type of hospice care is appropriate when an illness is not responding to medical attempts to cure it or to slow the disease's progress.

April 1st, 2021

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Critical Thinking Development in Healthcare

AI has the potential to help healthcare really understand their clinicians’ critical thinking ability. In the article from which this post is taken, HealthStream’s Associate VP for Clinical Staff Development, Christie Kerwan, spoke about what AI tools offer for clinical development.

April 1st, 2021

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Palliative Care Vs. Hospice Care—How They Differ

Palliative care and hospice care are often mentioned together, which can lead to confusion about what each one entails. Lack of knowledge, especially about palliative care, may hamper the many benefits of these services for those who most need them.

April 1st, 2021

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A Nine Step Process for Standardizing Privileges in a Health System

There are many reasons to standardize privileges across all medical staffs—improved program management, compliance, alignment with contemporary clinical practice, and to manage clinical competence. Here’s how a typical project to standardize privileges may proceed successfully.

April 1st, 2021

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The Essentials for an Effective Onboarding Program for New Nurses

Assessing and developing nurses for the ability to think critically has never been more important. This article and excerpt focus on education focused on critical thinking and its interplay with learning and assessment technology.

April 1st, 2021

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