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Understanding Sexual Abuse & Harassment
Learn the importance of understanding the intricacies and responses required for companies and people who encounter sexual abuse and harassment.
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5 Ways Nurses as Advocates Benefits Healthcare
Here are 5 ways nurses as advocates for patients, themselves, their profession, and healthcare as a whole can be a great benefit to all involved.
April 1st, 2021
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Avoiding a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA)
Too often, critical functions within healthcare organizations operate independently and separately, without interaction. There may be little communication, collaboration, or synergy taking place among them. These communication gaps are never more operationally painful than when an organization enters into a CIA with the government. Download this white paper to learn the importance of communication in avoiding CIAs.
April 1st, 2021
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National Handwashing Awareness Week Brings Attention To A Core Infection-Prevention Protocol
National Handwashing Awareness Week provides the opportunity to bone up on hand health and put into practice a quick and easy way to cut back on germ and virus transmission.
April 1st, 2021
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Guide Individualized Healthcare Training and Development
Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare workplace development can help organizations overcome some of the challenges holding back employees from achieving great outcomes.
April 1st, 2021
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Understanding Core Privileges Form Components & Best Practices
Learn why it's a best practice to organize core privilege forms by specialty and certain components that typically should make up each specialty’s core privilege form.
April 1st, 2021
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National Influenza Vaccination Week Puts Focus on Fast & Easy Prevention
National Influenza Vaccination Week is the time to separate fact from fiction when it comes to influenza, flu shots and how to stay healthy while also protecting those around us.
April 1st, 2021
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Applying a Population Health Model to the Opioid Abuse Crisis
Healthcare can improve its approach to the opioid crisis by adopting a population health model. Looking at addiction and abuse as a chronic disease can change the treatment trajectory
April 1st, 2021
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Key Lessons from the History of the Opioid Abuse Epidemic
The history of opioid use in the United States, especially the recent decades of abuse, tells us that the crisis wasn’t just an accident. Decisions were made by individuals and corporations that led to our current state of calamity, with certain key lessons for the healthcare industry.
April 1st, 2021
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Celebrity HIPAA Breaches Affirm the Importance of Healthcare Compliance Training
HIPAA violations include large-scale data privacy breaches through cyberattacks as well as insider threats like celebrity information privacy violations by employees. Healthcare compliance training needs to address them all.
April 1st, 2021
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Code Of Conduct In Healthcare For Compliance
The code of conduct in healthcare is the cornerstone of any healthcare organization's compliance program and is an essential component of the institution's culture.
April 1st, 2021
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Do You Have a Transition Plan for Your Health System or Medical Group?
All healthcare organizations go through changes in resources, especially involving leaders. What can be done to reduce the stress during this period? Setting up processes and ensuring everyone complies with them can help.
April 1st, 2021
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Improving Clinical Quality Outcomes Across The Care Continuum
The environment for healthcare delivery continues to change in the U.S., and these evolutions cause us to continually update the focus we place on quality improvement and patient safety. As things change in the industry, we must continue to add new safeguards that reflect the new environment.
April 1st, 2021
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2019 Annual Report on Managing Conflicts of Interest
In today’s healthcare landscape, the assurance of a conflict-free environment has never been more important; therefore, organizations need to take the appropriate steps and action to achieve this environment. In this white paper, HealthStream, surveyed 281 healthcare compliance leaders throughout the U.S. to learn more about the compliance programs in their hospitals. HealthStream wanted to discover how well Conflicts of Interest were being monitored and uncover any gaps in the process. Download the whitepaper to learn more.
April 1st, 2021
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5 Ways Compensation Planning Can Improve Employee Retention
For most healthcare organizations, their greatest expense—and greatest differentiator—is their employees. In this paper, we look at the role compensation can play in supporting employee retention and suggest ways healthcare organizations can use a strong compensation strategy to reduce employee turnover.
April 1st, 2021
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Critical Thinking Development in Healthcare
AI has the potential to help healthcare really understand their clinicians’ critical thinking ability. In the article from which this post is taken, HealthStream’s Associate VP for Clinical Staff Development, Christie Kerwan, spoke about what AI tools offer for clinical development.
April 1st, 2021
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A Nine Step Process for Standardizing Privileges in a Health System
There are many reasons to standardize privileges across all medical staffs—improved program management, compliance, alignment with contemporary clinical practice, and to manage clinical competence. Here’s how a typical project to standardize privileges may proceed successfully.
April 1st, 2021
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The Essentials for an Effective Onboarding Program for New Nurses
Assessing and developing nurses for the ability to think critically has never been more important. This article and excerpt focus on education focused on critical thinking and its interplay with learning and assessment technology.
April 1st, 2021
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Celebrate Revenue Integrity Week with New Strategies to Boost Revenue Cycle Integrity and Performance
Join HealthStream and our partner nThrive in celebrating Revenue Integrity Week by incorporating these seven new strategies to boost revenue cycle integrity and performance in healthcare.
April 1st, 2021
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Developing Critical Thinking Skills: The Key to an Effective Onboarding Program for New Nurses
Healthcare organizations must work quickly & efficiently to fight shortages & ensure staff is equipped to provide quality patient care. This article outlines the ways to assess & develop nurses for the ability to think critically.