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Emory Healthcare

Learn how Emory Healthcare achieved a 50% time savings in evaluations with Checklist.

August 31, 2022

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When and How Should Case Logs be Used to Document Competency

Some hospitals and health systems require documentation of a certain number of admissions or consultations prior to granting privileges. Discover when and how case logs should be used to document competency.

August 26, 2022

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The Importance of Evidence-Based Content

Nurses can use Google, YouTube or Tik Tok, but Dynamic Health offers a fast, safe alternative that provides point-of-care access to clinical decision support tools. These tools ensure that when nurses need it, evidence-based information will be readily available to them. With HealthStream and Dynamic Health, your organization can trust that nurses are relying on information that has been rigorously reviewed to ensure that it reflects current best practices.

August 23, 2022

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Phase 3 Regulations – Ready or Not!

Surveyors will begin using Phase 3 guidance to identify non-compliance on October 24, 2022. You and your facility can get ahead of these new regulations by better understanding what is required and implementing programs that will ensure that your next survey finds your facility in full compliance.

August 12, 2022

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2022 HealthStream Clinical Industry Report

The HealthStream 2022 clinical industry report is designed to provide clinical and education leaders insight into key findings related to clinical competency development.

August 11, 2022

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Goodbye, Binders! The Better Checklist Experience

Binders and paper records are a poor solution for standardizing and validating skills. HealthStream’s award-winning Checklist Management can help your organization with a solution that is reliable, customizable, and cost-effective and will also contribute to consistent, high-quality care for your patients.

August 09, 2022

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Tools, Teams, and Training: Revisioning Critical Components of Resuscitation Care

ReVitalPro and CodeBlueIQ have been designed for and by users. They are mobile, easy-to-use solutions that require little training and provide critical decision support at the point-of-care. The tools also provide a comprehensive and accurate patient record and data that is essential for performance debriefs, patient safety, quality management and improvement efforts, Joint Commission/CMS adherence, and focused training, as well as billing/revenue capture.

August 09, 2022

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The Importance of Certifications in Supporting Your Clinicians

Specialty certification goes beyond the required state and local licensure requirements. Certification acknowledges clinical knowledge, experience, expertise, and judgement within a specialty. Let us show you how CE Unlimited can help with recruitment and retention.

August 08, 2022

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Preparing your Obstetrical Staff for High-Risk, Low-Frequency Emergencies

Education is perhaps the most important part of the solution when addressing maternal and child outcomes. Using HealthStream’s Maternal Child Nursing Care Solution provides the kind of education that can build confidence and competence in your nursing staff even when they are faced with a low-incidence, high-risk obstetrical emergency.

August 02, 2022

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What if the Reports I Needed Could Just Appear Like Magic?

Do you wish you had a dollar for every night you’ve spent during your career drinking coffee in the wee hours of the morning, pulling together the information you need for an executive meeting the next day? We’ve all been there, wishing there was a better way to assemble an insightful report. Fortunately, you and HealthStream are thinking a lot alike.

August 02, 2022

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Understanding Medical Staff to Provider Ratios

Understanding the medical staff to provider ratio continues to be a trending topic within the industry. We dive into what variables and factors determine and influence these staffing ratios.

July 28, 2022

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Preparing for a Career as a Hospice Nurse

Hospice nursing can be extraordinarily gratifying and there is no denying its importance in the continuum of care, so helping nurses with the right tools to best care for their patients and the families of their patients is crucial to providing optimal end-of-life support. These kinds of tools are also critical to those healthcare organizations providing hospice care as they can help leaders manage credentialing and scheduling while providing the kind of specialized education that is critical to the delivery of safe and compliant hospice care.

July 26, 2022

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Shoulder Dystocia Preparedness

Shoulder dystocia is a low-incidence, high-risk obstetrical emergency. Understanding the risks, recognizing the signs and knowing the proper course of action to take when it occurs can save lives. HealthStream’s Quality OB Program can give your staff the tools that they will need when faced with this obstetrical emergency. This program can be an important part of your organization’s strategy to improve outcomes, build staff competency and confidence and reduce the organization’s exposure to risk.

July 25, 2022

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Addressing the Experience-Complexity Gap in Nursing

The Experience-Complexity Gap is further complicating an existing nursing shortage. HealthStream has solutions that can help your organization close the gap by creating a faster and more effective onboarding process, standardizing clinical practice to reduce risk, providing cross-training and upskilling and building strong retention programs.

July 19, 2022

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Improve Survey Results and Quality Measure Ratings with HealthStream Quality Manager, formerly known as abaqis®

Edna Tina Wilson Living Center in Rochester, New York specializes in skilled nursing and is integrated within the Rochester Regional Health System. The bed count is 120 and the facility employs 175 healthcare professionals.

July 15, 2022

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Promoting a Culture of Resilience

The need to build resilience in healthcare workers will remain long after the pandemic is over. Additional outbreaks of disease, national disasters and other crises will test the resilience of healthcare workers and organizations. You can choose to begin the process of building a resilient team right now. HealthStream’s Resilience in Healthcare program can help connect your staff with help today.

July 11, 2022

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Preparing your non-clinical staff to respond to an emergency

HealthStream’s American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED program can relieve the stress of building competence and confidence in your non-clinical staff with training that is flexible, engaging and designed to meet all regulatory requirements.

July 07, 2022

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Celebrate Pride by creating an inclusive care environment for the LGBTQIA+ patient community

Tools that can help your organization create a diverse and inclusive culture for employees are a must-have as are tools that help healthcare workers understand how to create a safe and affirming environment for LGBTQIA+ patients and families.

July 07, 2022

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Child and maternal health – the case for standardizing education

While maternal child health statistics continue to disappoint and confound healthcare providers, the solution may lie in standardizing education for nurses and other healthcare providers.

July 05, 2022

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How Workforce Validate can help navigate the nursing shortage

The world is in the middle of a critical nursing shortage. Many organizations are turning to traveling nurses to fill the gaps. Workforce Validate can help you rapidly confirm your traveling nurses are clear to be on the floor.

July 01, 2022