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Clinician Shortages Will Be a Growing Problem in Healthcare

The existing shortage of nurses and physicians will continue and become an even larger problem across many areas of healthcare during the coming decade.

April 01, 2021

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Does Your Competency Program Have the Whole Staff Comfortable with Expectations?

To align with new CMS regulations, long-term facility competency programs should tie into assessments and also should engage the entire staff in their creation and ongoing updates.

April 01, 2021

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Embrace an Overarching Set of Five Competencies for All Clinicians

As early as 2003, the Institute of Medicine identified five competencies designed to help organizations thrive in the current healthcare environment. They remain very relevant today.

April 01, 2021

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How to Make Scheduling Work Better for Nurse Managers

In addition to requiring a great deal of time and attention from nurse managers, inefficient scheduling processes can seriously impact nurses’ work environment and satisfaction. It is possible for healthcare organizations to adopt solutions that make the scheduling process work better for nurse managers.

April 01, 2021

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How Are Millennials Experiencing Healthcare and Affecting Its Future?

Health-focused Millennials are demanding changes in healthcare, from how and where they receive care to what “good health” really means. They will continue to have a big impact on an industry that desperately needs to change.

April 01, 2021

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Strong Trends Affecting the Healthcare Industry and Its Providers

A growing trend visible across healthcare is the effort to customize workforce development to specific needs and to learners. Concurrent challenges include growing financial pressures and the U.S. demographics. Here are a few ways that these trends will manifest themselves.

April 01, 2021

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Behavioral Healthcare Is an Important Part of Effective Care for Addicted Mothers

The training discussed how to interact effectively with this at-risk patient population, as well as heightening the awareness of the issues these pregnant women faced as active addicts who also might be battling mental health issues, homelessness, and a roster of other issues.

April 01, 2021

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Engaging At-Risk Opioid Addicted Mothers Through Prenatal Care, Delivery, and Beyond

Breaking free from opioid addiction is a difficult and multifaceted challenge. For many women who are addicted, the process is made even more complex by pregnancy. That’s where the Giving Respect and Compassion to Expecting Moms, or G.R.A.C.E., program steps in.

April 01, 2021

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How to Improve Nurse Scheduling

To improve and sustain better clinical and business outcomes, healthcare organizations must improve their solutions for nurse scheduling. Here are some of the features an optimal nurse scheduling solution should have.

April 01, 2021

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Improving Nurse Retention in 2020 and Beyond

The Need to focus on Nurse Retention will only increase as our country’s aging population demands more healthcare. Here are some strategies for improving nurse retention in 2020 and beyond.

April 01, 2021

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Better Long-Term Direct Care Administrators' Competency Program

Full staff buy-in is vital for a long-term direct care provider’s competency program to not only be fully functional, but also as effective as it must be.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Staff Competency Challenges and How to Solve Them

Regardless of the category of the healthcare competency being evaluated, and difficulty doing so, there should be an appropriate tool for accurately documenting performance. There should also be the repository for action and necessary education plans, along with their completion and re-evaluation dates.

April 01, 2021

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10 Healthcare Trends That Will Shape the Future | HealthStream

Here are 10 future healthcare trends everyone in healthcare should be paying attention to, from HealthStream's Healthcare Management & Administration Blog.

April 01, 2021

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Seven Big Problems Nurse Managers Face with Traditional Scheduling Efforts

When a nurse scheduling solution fails to work smoothly, it isn’t just the frontline nurses who are affected. As the staff members responsible for creating and maintaining the master nursing schedule, nurse managers have some specific pain points that occur frequently.

April 01, 2021

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Handling N95s, Ventilated Face Masks, and Social Distancing

Here's how to follow the guidelines for infection control and deal with the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) caused by Covid-19, from HealthStream.

April 01, 2021

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Benefits & Challenges of Working Remotely in Times of Crisis

HealthStream examines the benefits and challenges of working remotely while Americans are applying “social distancing” in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19.

April 01, 2021

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The Future of Learning and Talent Development in Healthcare – Survey Results (Part 2)

To evaluate healthcare industry perceptions about talent management, learning, and development, HealthStream surveyed leaders about the strategic use of learning within talent management programs. Here we discuss findings about leadership and the importance of learning content.

April 01, 2021

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Home Health Care vs. Hospital Care

The move toward value-based care may have us seeing home health care as a treatment option with even more benefits for patients and outcomes. Cost, clinical results and patient comfort may support providing higher levels of care at home.

April 01, 2021

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Linking Healthcare Competency to the Commitment to Lifelong Learning

A commitment to lifelong learning is not optional in healthcare. Learning new skills and keeping current skills sharp while growing personally and professionally is essential in the rapidly changing landscape of healthcare, and something o which staff must be held accountable.

April 01, 2021

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The Future of Learning and Talent Development in Healthcare – Survey Results (Part 1)

To evaluate healthcare industry perceptions about talent management, learning, and development, HealthStream surveyed leaders about the strategic use of learning within talent management programs. Here we discuss findings about 2020 priorities and decision-making.

April 01, 2021