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7 Nurse Retention Strategies That You Can Use Now
Utilize these 7 nurse retention strategies from HealthStream to keep your healthcare employees happy and engaged with their work.
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Upcoming Changes to HIPAA – What You Need to Know Now
Some big changes to HIPAA are expected to be announced within the next few weeks. You can begin to prepare your organization now by familiarizing your team with the proposed new rule and training employees on how to comply with the updated requirements.
March 22nd, 2023
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An Innovative Integration for a Single Source of Truth
It’s time to take control of the way you and your team handle staffing decisions. By utilizing this innovative partnership with Workday and ShiftWizard™, you’ll be able to leverage your time and attendance data to make real-time, cost-effective productivity decisions.
March 22nd, 2023
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Optimize Competency While Reducing EMS Training Costs
Recent changes in regulations governing how and where EMS training is provided have paved the way for EMS organizations to optimize their team’s competency while also reducing their training costs.
March 21st, 2023
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How Nurse Leaders Can Ensure Fairness in Workforce Scheduling
Having an effective and healthcare-specific workforce scheduling system is an essential component to helping nurse leaders foster a fair and inclusive environment for their staff.
March 20th, 2023
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New Joint Commission Standards to Reduce Healthcare Disparities – What You Need to Know
The new Joint Commission standards will apply to acute care hospitals, ambulatory care, behavioral health, critical access hospitals, and human services organizations. Healthcare organizations can begin preparing to meet the new requirements now.
March 17th, 2023
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Reduce Credentialing and Provider Enrollment Timeframes with CredentialMyDoc™
Streamlining your credentialing and enrollment processes will deliver increased efficiency while allowing you to provide the best care possible. Here’s how CredentialMyDoc can help.
March 14th, 2023
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The Impact of Unconscious Bias on Healthcare
Unconscious bias often leads to false assumptions and negative outcomes for minority groups in the healthcare setting. We must focus on reducing the impact of unconscious biases on physician-patient interactions, which contributes to health disparities.
March 14th, 2023
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Acuity-based scheduling: A promising strategy for optimizing patient care
There are multiple variables to balance when constructing shift schedules for healthcare staff. One key factor for hospital managers to consider is patient acuity, and yet there is much discussion about how to consider it when making staffing decisions.
March 2nd, 2023
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Nurse Strikes are Scary, but License Verification Doesn’t Have to be
Nurse strikes are becoming more common. Learn how HR teams can expedite license verifications for temporary resources with Workforce Validate.
February 13th, 2023
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How to Use APIs in Healthcare Learning
You’ve likely heard that APIs can magically transform business, reduce waste, speed processes, and improve bottom lines. What does this mean for healthcare, and specifically for healthcare learning? Let’s explore the advantages of using APIs and some specific use cases to illustrate the wide variety of ways in which they can help transform your learning workflows.
February 8th, 2023
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What Today’s Provider Enrollment Professionals Are Saying About Provider Data Management
Medical Services Professionals (MSPs) throughout the country agree their jobs require a lot of diligence, attention to detail, and patience. We’re on a mission to provide MSPs with actionable data they can use to improve their processes. Here’s what today’s Provider Enrollment Professionals had to say about Provider Data Management in our annual survey.
January 31st, 2023
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Medical Fraud is on the Rise, Here's What to Watch Out For
Healthcare fraud, AKA false claims, is an expensive crime affecting individuals and healthcare organizations alike. Read about the risks and learn how to protect yourself with Workforce Validate.
January 26th, 2023
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Your Top 5 Privileging Questions Answered: Requirements, Procedures, and More
Privileging involves requirements amongst providers and health systems and involves defined medical staff policies and procedures. HealthStream answers the top questions to come out of our Privileging 101 webinar series here.
January 24th, 2023
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What does a home health care nurse do?
Home health nursing is one of the many career options available within the nursing profession. It is a choice for registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and nurse assistants (NAs). The educational requirements for a home health nurse are dependent on individual nursing certifications.
January 17th, 2023
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Introducing Workforce Validate
Workforce Validate is a safe, easy and effective way to monitor workforce compliance. It alerts leaders and employees of expiring and expired licenses by checking literally hundreds of sources. Pre-built reports and dashboards make it easy for leaders to monitor compliance. Workforce Validate can eliminate the time-consuming process of manually checking sites and helps your organization to mitigate risk and feel confident that staff members that are on the floor are safe to be there.
January 13th, 2023
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Clinical Placement for the Future of Healthcare – A Conversation with Centura and UW Health
Preparing students for their future clinical placements can feel chaotic and overwhelming, but it is possible to impose some order on the process while reducing risk and improving your organization’s ability to onboard students and easily create accurate reports for your organization and its’ clinical and academic partners. myClinicalExchange can help build competence and compliance while helping to reduce the time and costs associated with the process.
December 19th, 2022
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The Must Haves For Effective Leadership Training For Your Clinical Staff
Early retirements, a pandemic and ongoing nursing shortages have combined to reduce the pipeline of nurse leaders. HealthStream has tools to help you identify potential new leaders, nurture existing leaders and provide education solutions that will help you create and continue to build a strong nursing leadership presence in your organization.
December 19th, 2022
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The Importance of Data Governance for Effective Patient Care
Implementing data governance gives the healthcare industry access to analytics which help providers provide the best possible care to their patients.
December 14th, 2022
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8 Best Practices for Successful Case Review
Healthcare organizations juggle a variety of priorities, but the one of most important is patient safety. There are many ways to ensure physicians are performing to the best of their ability, and one of those methods is Peer Review. In this post, we’ll go over both Peer and Case Review, and look into strategies for accurately evaluating provider performance.