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Best Practices: Behavioral-Based Questions for Peer Interviewing (Part 1)

So, now you know the skill-based questions you’re going to ask, but what about questions to determine if the candidate is right for your organization’s culture? You should compile your own personalized, behavioral-based questions, incorporating your organization’s Standards of Performance.

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The Healthcare Data Security Threat: How the NFL and HIPAA made headlines

Cyber-attacks will continue to plague healthcare organizations, and the results are costly for patients and facilities alike. Healthcare facilities must take a proactive approach in terms of training their staff members on how to detect and prevent physical and cyber security threats.

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Webinar: Panel Discussion on Using Employee Engagement and Talent Strategies to Drive Success (6/29)

Today’s challenges mean that leaders are thinking differently about talent – how to select, engage and develop people at every level who will support the organization’s goals. This interactive panel discussion will explore how senior leaders view talent, today.

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Security Awareness, a Permanent Concern in Healthcare, Requires Training

Why is healthcare cybersecurity important? 48% of healthcare organizations experienced a security incident involving the loss or exposure of patient data in the past 12 months. On average, a facility will have to protect against 11.4 cyber-attacks per year.

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Spring 2016 Workforce Advisor Focuses on Workforce Development in Non-acute Care

The Spring 2006 issue of Healthcare Workforce Advisor looks at what it means for the workforce when most healthcare in America is actually delivered outside the hospital—through our clinics, surgery centers, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospice and palliative care services, rehabilitation centers, behavioral health facilities, and medical practices.

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National CPR-AED Awareness Week - A Reminder That We Can Save More Lives

National CPR-AED Awareness Week is a great time to remind ourselves that cardiac arrest is a serious healthcare emergency for which everyone in healthcare needs to be prepared. Importantly, our response to cardiac arrest is something that we can improve, so that more people survive it.

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Healthcare Recruiting: It’s Time to Make it Easier

Healthcare hiring is hard, but it doesn’t have to be. Even with the influx of competition, compliance, and complexities surrounding the healthcare industry, there are an equal number of strategies to help reduce your recruiting costs.

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Onboarding Programs a Solution to the Growing Nurse Shortage

The literature supports a one-year onboarding program that offers a blended learning approach to address the unique learning needs of residents is essential to building confidence, fostering retention, and ensuring knowledge transfer.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Recruiting: Improve Retention and Internal Referrals

Whether you are talking about new customers or new employees, the rule is the same: it costs much more (7-10 times as much) to find a new one than to keep the one you have happy. Working to improve retention and internal referrals can be one of the most effective recruiting strategies you can employ.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Recruiting: Leverage Your Data and Dollars

One common mistake made by many healthcare providers, and most other industries for that matter, is overpaying to get great talent. That does not mean that better talent does not warrant better pay. It does mean, however, that you do not have to overpay.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Recruitment Strategy: Build Your Employer Brand

The secret of employer branding is that it creates a powerful self-selection tool for your candidates. This eliminates a large portion of unqualified candidates, or those who are not a good organizational fit, from even applying in the first place.

April 01, 2021

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What's to Blame for Disengaged Physicians?

Only one in four physicians feels engaged and 56% of employed physicians have negative feelings toward their profession. Here’s how to start changing those numbers.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Recruitment Strategy: Delegate and Automate

There are a lot of moving parts in the healthcare recruiting process. Many of these processes are administrative in nature and could easily be automated with the right systems.

April 01, 2021

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Nominate Your Organization for a 2016 HealthStream Award of Excellence®

We are now accepting submissions for the HealthStream Awards of Excellence. These awards spotlight innovative programs and superior leadership that support organizational excellence, workforce development, patient satisfaction, employee engagement, and more.

April 01, 2021

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Assessing your Audience’s Data Fluency

Data Fluency is defined as the exchange of ideas with data as the medium. Depending on an individual’s degree of data fluency, how information is shared with them will influence their understanding and data usage.

April 01, 2021

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Talent Tuesdays: Increase Efficiency and Simplicity in Healthcare Compensation Management

Automation can help organizations to reach meaningful compensation management outcomes--our data shows workflow efficiency improving by up to 40% for line managers and 26% for HR departments overall.

April 01, 2021

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Are You Using Evidence-Based Hiring in Healthcare?

Research here also shows that most people aren’t good interviewers and a traditional interview isn’t particularly predictive for healthcare hiring success.

April 01, 2021

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Successful Healthcare Recruiting Has Changed: White Paper

Healthcare organizations are bucking traditional recruiting models to zero in on the best job candidates, accelerate selection, and engage candidates from the start. This paper looks at the trends reshaping the healthcare workforce and the new rules of recruiting.

April 01, 2021

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The ICD-10 Deadline Has Now Passed—Now What?!!

With the ICD-10 deadline just behind us, it is clear that ongoing competency maintenance and remediation will be key factors in optimizing the revenue cycle long term.

April 01, 2021

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Improve Provider Processes and Provider Data Management with Echo

Provider data management must become a core competency for healthcare organizations, underpinning a multitude of critical processes to boost care quality, admissions, revenues, and patient and provider satisfaction.

April 01, 2021