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Mitigate risk and elevate your quality of care. Improving both clinical and business outcomes starts with a smarter, more integrated approach to regulatory training, continuing education and quality management.

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NurseGrid Learn

Online store for Clinical Learners. Individual CE Credit and industry products for Clinical Learners are now available through NurseGrid Learn (Beta). Explore our robust collection of courses that provides an unparalleled level of flexibility and choice.

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Meet the DEA's new requirement under the Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act in an online, high-quality and self-paced 8-hour DEA MATE Act course specifically designed for practitioners, including Physicians, PAs, NPs, Pharmacists, Dentists and others.

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10 Trends for 2024: Absorbing New Technology, Facing New Realities, and Solving Old Problems

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10 Ways to Encourage Better Physician Communication

Physicians looking to deliver a superior patient experience must take the time to evaluate how they communicate and commit to practicing new ways of speaking to patients.

April 19, 2021

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The Importance of Effective Communication in Nursing

Registered Nurse Nicole Kraut shares her experiences with HealthStream and how she believes effective communication is most important during patient interactions.

April 19, 2021

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Performance Management Turned Upside Down

In a pandemic, priorities shift. Healthcare providers are realizing that neglecting performance evaluations and annual reviews is not optimal for the long term—and they're starting to reimagine how to improve them when nothing seems normal.

April 19, 2021

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HealthStream, National Quality Forum Partner to Combat the Opioid Crisis

Education continues to play a central role in combating the national opioid crisis. HealthStream and the National Quality Forum (NQF) have partnered to create the NQF Opioid Stewardship Fundamentals online training course, an educational series that follows the seven fundamental actions of the National Quality Partners (NQP) Playbook: Opioid Stewardship.

April 19, 2021

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10 Considerations for COVID-19 and Long-Term Care

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit nursing homes and long-term care harder than anywhere else. The skilled nursing environment has become a place where COVID-19 is easily transferred between patients, residents, family members, and staff, necessitating lockdowns, the prohibition of visitors, and elimination of resident gatherings.

April 19, 2021

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Preparing for the 2021 Joint Commission Safety Standards Deadline? HealthStream’s Quality OB Program is Associated with Lower Risk Claims

Today, U.S. maternal mortality rates are still unacceptably high, with the number of maternal deaths significantly surpassing those from all other highly developed countries. Approximately 700 deaths occur annually from pregnancy-related complications, and 50,000 women are injured every year during childbirth.

April 19, 2021

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What Is Cultural Competence in Healthcare?

Now more than ever, healthcare professionals and everyone supporting them in the industry need to work to break down any barriers to care. One way many organizations are making an effort to meet more patients’ needs is to focus on cultural competence.

April 19, 2021

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Performance Reviews

How COVID-19 has changed healthcare’s approach to performance reviews is the focus of an article featuring HealthStream’s Brad Weeks, Director Platform Solutions, and Megan Gibson, Manager, Success Management. This blog post is the first of several excerpts from that article.

April 16, 2021

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Importance of Opioid Stewardship

Recognizing the impact of the opioid crisis, NQF convened an expert opioid-focused action team that ultimately produced the National Quality Partners (NQP) Playbook: Opioid Stewardship. HealthStream learning courseware based on it is now available.

April 16, 2021

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Setting the Perfect Nurse Rotation Schedule

Making scheduling easier and more efficient for nurses and their mangers can lead to higher levels of engagement and satisfaction and perhaps also improve metrics related to patient experience, quality, and financial performance.

April 16, 2021

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Despite Communication Challenges, Families Must Continue to Advocate for Loved Ones in Long-Term Care

The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant complications for family members of patients and residents in nursing homes. More often, family members are the strongest care advocates for their loved ones.

April 16, 2021

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Rethinking Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse Education

Psych Hub is changing how we understand behavioral health and substance use education with online courses that take students from knowledge learned to behavior change. Their video library aims to improve mental health literacy while reducing the stigma surrounding seeking mental health care.

April 16, 2021

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Telehealth benefits & challenges

The use of telehealth services already had been growing pre-pandemic, with COVID-19 inspiring some providers to move swiftly ahead, as well as push the evolution further. Here are some of the advantages and disadvantages of interacting with a healthcare provider via telehealth.

April 16, 2021

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To Improve Healthcare Quality Outcomes, We Must Focus on Turnover

High turnover rates can have a significantly detrimental impact on hospitals, patients, and healthcare staff. Staff turnover in hospitals is estimated to cost at least two times the pay of a regular employed nurse.

April 16, 2021

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Understanding Medical Billing Cycles and Solutions

Medical billing is complicated for trained professionals, so why do providers expect patients to understand it without a little help and coaching?

April 16, 2021

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The New Rules of Healthcare Recruiting: Best Practices

Industry disruption empowers healthcare HR and talent management leaders to create sophisticated processes to attract and engage the right candidates. Hiring the right people has never been more important in this age of radical reform, innovation, and consumerism.

April 15, 2021

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Six Key Trends Emerging in Non-Acute Care

Skilled nursing, post-acute care, non-acute care, home health, rehab, care continuum, continuum of care, hospice, healthcare human resources

April 14, 2021

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HealthStream-NQF Partnership Makes Opioid Stewardship Tools More Widely Available

The new Opioids Stewardship course from NQF and HealthStream allows clinicians who do not have much experience with opioids to grow in knowledge, while those with strong practical skills can add to their own awareness.

April 14, 2021

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Six Reasons to Prioritize Employee Recognition Over Rewards in Healthcare

Effective recognition occurs when an employee receives authentic feedback from a peer, manager and/or leader as to how his/her actions impacted team objectives or the organization’s purpose. Here are six reasons to prioritize employee recognition over rewards in healthcare.

April 14, 2021

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Five Steps for Teaching Each Clinical Judgment Competency for Nursing

Teaching a clinical judgment competency for nursing students and new nurses is far more effective if you use an overall process that is systematic and formalized. Caputi offers five useful steps to teach individual clinical judgment competencies

April 13, 2021