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World AIDS Day Offers A Chance To Celebrate Successes & Assess The Challenges Ahead

World AIDS Day occurs Dec. 1, 2019 and is the perfect opportunity to assess what the healthcare community is doing around awareness, prevention, and treatment.

April 01, 2021

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Use the International Day of Disabled Persons to Assess Public Accessibility & More

The International Day of Disabled Persons shows how much work needs to be done, both here and around the world, to ensure that everyone has access to, and inclusion within, public structures and activities.

April 01, 2021

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Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month Takes Aim at a Complicated & Elusive Foe

World Pancreatic Cancer Day and Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month are here. Use this time to study your risks and see your physician for routine bloodwork and a checkup.

April 01, 2021

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Clinical Reasoning: Pros & Pitfalls in Healthcare

Clinical reasoning is a valuable and needed skill that nurses and other healthcare providers should cultivate, and also one that can be tricky to master.

April 01, 2021

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Six Tactics That Must Be Applied in Healthcare to the Opioid Abuse Epidemic

This blog post briefly describes six tactical options that need to be employed to go a good way towards supporting the opioid crisis and getting through it.

April 01, 2021

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Take A Deep Breath & Get Involved with Lung Cancer Awareness Month

Lung Cancer Awareness Month is the perfect opportunity to learn more about how to prevent a disease that kills more women that breast cancer.

April 01, 2021

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Great American Smokeout Offers Perfect Opportunity to Kick the Habit

The Great American Smokeout is the American Cancer Society’s annual effort to help Americans stop smoking, and stay stopped, so they can live longer and healthier lives.

April 01, 2021

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Training the Direct Care Workforce to Meet the Needs of Our Aging Population

As all areas of the healthcare workforce expand, the direct care workforce will need the training in the skills and preparation to work with others across the care continuum to support an aging, needier population.

April 01, 2021

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Understanding Core Privileges Form Components & Best Practices

Learn why it's a best practice to organize core privilege forms by specialty and certain components that typically should make up each specialty’s core privilege form.

April 01, 2021

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Gaging the Readiness of New Perinatal Safety Standards of Nurses | HealthStream

HealthStream reveals a survey taken by nurses about the New CMS Perinatal Safety Standards revealed that they are not completely ready for new required measures.

April 01, 2021

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COVID-19 Has Forever Changed Long-Term Care

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc with our nation’s long-term care (LTC) facilities. As this was happening, HealthStream sought to hear directly from providers “on the front lines” to understand their greatest challenges and needs.

April 01, 2021

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The Role of Nurses and Continuum Care Support Staff in Chronic Care Management

Nurses in every setting, as well as CNAs and home care aides, are in an ideal position to manage patients with chronic illnesses, especially when there are multiple overlapping conditions.

April 01, 2021

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National Influenza Vaccination Week Puts Focus on Fast & Easy Prevention

National Influenza Vaccination Week is the time to separate fact from fiction when it comes to influenza, flu shots and how to stay healthy while also protecting those around us.

April 01, 2021

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Three Guidelines for Communication with a Patient’s Loved Ones

Delivering great care and achieving better outcomes requires the ability of healthcare professionals to communicate successfully and meaningfully with a patient’s family and other loved ones. Here are some guidelines for improved family communication.

April 01, 2021

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Privileging Telehealth Providers

The credentialing and privileging of telehealth providers is something many healthcare providers are still figuring out.

April 01, 2021

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Three Challenges Demanding a New Approach to Healthcare Training and Development

Technological advances in how to conduct healthcare staff assessments and education have the potential to address some long-standing challenges that exist for nursing and clinical areas in the industry.

April 01, 2021

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Applying a Population Health Model to the Opioid Abuse Crisis

Healthcare can improve its approach to the opioid crisis by adopting a population health model. Looking at addiction and abuse as a chronic disease can change the treatment trajectory

April 01, 2021

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Promote Awareness & Prevention During American Diabetes Month

Millions of Americans have type 2 diabetes, and millions more are at risk—that’s why education and awareness re the cornerstones of American Diabetes Month.

April 01, 2021

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The Future of the Opioid Abuse Epidemic

The recent decades of opioid abuse in the U.S. tells us that the crisis wasn’t just an accident and there are certain key lessons for the healthcare industry.

April 01, 2021

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3 Guidelines for Mentoring New Graduate Nurses

Learn how to be successful at mentoring nurses, one must refrain from providing too much assistance or too little in the effort, from HealthStream.

April 01, 2021