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Work-life Balance in a Nursing Career
Nurses can have an especially difficult time balancing work and personal life because of the increased amount of physical and emotional stress that nurses experience.
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The Benefits of Nurse Residency Program Accreditation
In a recent conversation about nurse residency programs, HealthStream’s Kimberly Herold, Director of Professional Development Pathways, and Kimberley Guthrie, Senior Pathways Engagement Coach, spoke about the value of accreditation.
April 1st, 2021
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Do You Do A Good Job Transitioning Nurses To New Practice Settings?
In this eBook, we examine the benefits and share best practices of pursuing accreditation from three perspectives—nurse leadership at CHRISTUS St. Elizabeth, leaders at ANCC, and nursing coaches at HealthStream. Their stories will make you want to step up your own game when it comes to transitioning nurses.
April 1st, 2021
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Solutions for Drug Diversion’s Role in the Opioid Crisis
Most reports on the opioid crisis in America focus on individuals who receive a prescription for an opioid pain killer and then become a victim of opioid dependence. But what about the issue of dependence that occurs within the walls of the hospital, connected to Drug Diversion?
April 1st, 2021
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The Looming Nurse Leadership Shortage—Are You Prepared?
The combination of an aging nursing population and not enough new nurses coming in to fill those roles plays a large part in today’s nursing shortage. With this nursing shortage there will come a shortage of nurse leaders.
April 1st, 2021
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The Impact of Patient Identification Errors
On average, hospitals have 30% of all claims denied and an average of 35% of these denied claims are attributed to inaccurate patient identification or inaccurate/incomplete patient information.
April 1st, 2021
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The Opioid Crisis: A U.S. Problem and the Response of Clinicians and CMS
If the amount of opioids prescribed per year were averaged out over each person living in the U.S., everyone would get about a two-week supply. What should clinicians and CMS do?
April 1st, 2021
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For Nurses Violence Is a Significant Workplace Concern
How can we protect nurses? A frequent answer is simply safety in numbers through adequate staffing, but thoughtful design of the patient care environment is also a key to prevention.
April 1st, 2021
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Alignment Is an Essential Foundation for Healthcare Organizations’ Goal Setting
Many organizations fail at vertical and horizontal alignment of goals, leaving employees confused as to what is expected of them, resulting in a lack of engagement in organizational goals and lack of positive outcomes.
April 1st, 2021
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The Real Focus of Healthcare is Moving Outside the Hospital to Outpatient Care
The move to outpatient dominance requires that leaders adopt a new mindset when thinking about how healthcare is delivered. Following are several trends that may help advance your thinking and inform decision-making in your organization.
April 1st, 2021
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Four Factors Contributing to High Turnover in Healthcare
While seeking to address the issue of healthcare staff turnover, it is imperative to identify exactly the factors contributing to this phenomenon. Various qualitative studies worldwide have surveyed some common reasons for staff turnover in hospitals.
April 1st, 2021
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Understanding the Importance of HCC Capture in At-Risk Contracts
As hospitals take on more at-risk contracts in the value-based payment era, it is increasingly important that financial officers understand HCC capture and how the health status of contracted populations is calculated. Appropriately documenting and coding a patient’s full illness burden is essential to the financial health of hospitals.
April 1st, 2021
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Workforce Readiness: Preparing Today for Tomorrow’s Unknown
In this eBook we consider some of the potential threats facing healthcare organizations and learn from leaders who have first-hand experience in surmounting these challenges.
April 1st, 2021
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Seven Best Practices to Improve Patient Outcomes in the Emergency Department
While there is no simple answer or one-size-fits-all solution for improving ED operations and flow, here are some proven principles to consider to enhance efficiency and reduce overall turnaround times.
April 1st, 2021
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Focus on OB Health and Risk by Using Data to Improve Fetal Monitoring
Strengthening EFM competency is vital for improving obstetrics care quality and reducing risk. The EFM Series’ data analytics allows clinical leaders to leverage HealthStream’s control center technology to determine learning performance and identify risk or need for remediation.
April 1st, 2021
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The Imperative for Providing Culturally Sensitive Nursing Care
Regardless of an individual’s cultural beliefs and practices, nurses have an inherent obligation to provide equal and ethical care to all patients.
April 1st, 2021
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The Future of Learning: New Technologies Influencing Clinical Development
Technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence have until recently only been associated with gaming and other types of entertainment, but their influence in healthcare is rapidly gaining traction.
April 1st, 2021
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Improving Outcomes Through Goal-Setting
We know that every team member in our health systems is mission critical in providing patient-centered excellence. Ensuring that every team member who wears an employment badge is competent (and ultimately confident) is the ultimate responsibility healthcare leaders face. Use goal management to clearly outline competencies, and achieve organizational objectives.
April 1st, 2021
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The Challenges of Care Transitions and Best Practices Resources
A number of research studies have illustrated processes and activities that hospitals can undertake to lower readmissions, including better discharge processes and better coordination of care with post-acute facilities and primary care doctors
April 1st, 2021
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The Bedside Shift Report from the Patient’s Perspective
A positive transformation occurs in patient’s perception of their care when touch is added to a task. That is certainly true with the Bedside Shift Report (BSSR).