Designed by clinical nurses for clinical nurses, Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills helps improve and standardize patient care. HealthStream expert Lynn Howe details how LNPS supports nurses’ effectiveness and better outcomes. Continue Reading »
The Partnership for Patients aims to bring together major hospitals, employers, physicians, nurses, patient advocates as well as state and federal governments in a shared effort to make hospital care safer, more reliable, and less costly. Incentives are available for organizations that see improvement. Continue Reading »
An undeniable buzz has been growing in recent years around simulation-based training in healthcare. A recent trip to Banner Health’s Simulation Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, convinced me that with equal parts of foresight, sponsorship, execution, and passion, it’s possible to turn this buzz into an integrated part of an organization’s culture. Continue Reading »
Today and in the future, successful facilities will be those whose employees can change more quickly and efficiently than those of their competitors. Yet change is difficult to manage, and most change efforts fail. Changing the behaviors and attitudes of an entire workforce is both complex and delicate, requiring a detailed framework of actions and goals for hospitals Continue Reading »
We are excited to announce that the NEW HeartCode BLS & ACLS Courses are coming soon! Final testing of the new programming is underway, and we are currently estimating a release date for the new courses in the month of July. Continue Reading »
Many of us have heard that coders will need to brush up on anatomy and physiology before the implementation of ICD-10-CM/PCS, but why? It's not like the anatomy and physiology of the human body are changing with the switch to ICD-10. Continue Reading »
Although most hospitals have been participating in the HCAHPS program since late 2006, it has not been clear until now what historic data, if any, would actually be used in the calculations that will determine hospital reimbursement as part of the Value Based Purchasing (VBP) program. In January of 2011, CMS released a document for public comment that provided detailed information about VBP. In this document, CMS suggests using HCAHPS data from the following dates to calculate a hospital’s reimbursement in the new pay for performance environment. Continue Reading »
Lynn Howe RN, MS, CEN, CCRN Director of Competency and Performance Management Continue Reading »
Physician-hospital alignment has never been both more important and complex as it is today. Hospital and healthcare system executives know that without a steady, growing stream of referrals and admissions from a base of loyal medical staff members, it can be very difficult to grow. With physician satisfaction levels reaching all-time lows in some specialties, physician shortages forecasted, and high physician turnover rates, healthcare executives are seeking strategies that support physicians and, at the same time, the business of running their hospitals. Continue Reading »
This memo describes how to incorporate 2010 AHA Guidelines for CPR & ECC science into current American Heart Association eLearning courses that include CPR, AED and/or first aid skills practice and testing. Continue Reading »