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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.
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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).
April 1st, 2021
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Continuing Education is Important for Nurses and Everyone Else in Healthcare
The orientation towards lifelong learning may be one of the most important competencies healthcare staff must possess for future success, and it will be up to employers to harness and engage new generations in untold and different ways.
April 1st, 2021
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Helping Medical Associations Avoid Conflicts of Interest: Case Study
In order to maintain their reputations for integrity and impartiality, medical associations for all kinds of specialties have to be vigilant about avoiding and identifying conflicts of interest among their members.
April 1st, 2021
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HR Analytics Are Essential for Driving Organizational Performance in Healthcare
It has never been more important for your Human Resources Department to know the business and to step up as an integral component to the success of your healthcare organization. HR leadership must be able to validate their value and be able to speak in quantitative, objective terms.
April 1st, 2021
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Competency Must Be an Integral Part of the Privileging Process
Hospitals have been granting clinical privileges for approximately 40-50 years, but for much of that time period, privileging systems have not addressed current clinical competency in any meaningful way. In recent years this has been changing, by necessity.
April 1st, 2021
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Creating a culture of safety – a leadership alert
The Joint Commission has found inadequate safety culture to be a significant contributing factor to adverse outcomes. To support this finding, it recently emphasized the need for healthcare leadership to create an effective culture of safety.
April 1st, 2021
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Improving Provider Data Management Through Consolidation Creates Success
BJC’s story of operating a single database is not unheard of, but their system is more advanced than what most healthcare organizations use, making them stand out as a leader in the industry.
April 1st, 2021
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Competency is Essential Throughout Every Healthcare Organization
Competencies ensure the right people at the right level of your organization are equipped to achieve optimal performance outcomes. Successful competencies align with the organizational goals and individual performance evaluations, and are used to build a coaching culture.
April 1st, 2021
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Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center
Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center ow uses HealthStream resources for new employee orientation which has made the process more efficient and engaging.
April 1st, 2021
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Committing to Patient-Centered Care and Patient Safety: Podcast
What started [the move to patient advisors and patient-centered care] was a story from a staff member whose family member, her younger brother, had been a patient in our hospital.
April 1st, 2021
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Challenges In Nursing Facilities: Best Practices
Here are some current issues and industry changes as well as some solutions that will continue to be big challenges in nursing facilities (SNFs), from HealthStream.
April 1st, 2021
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A Blended Learning Approach to Improving Patient Outcomes and Experiences
Every healthcare organization wants to create an optimal experience for patients and visitors. While there are nuances involved in the way adults prefer to learn, the vast majority benefit from various learning models that employ variety and choice in their approaches.
April 1st, 2021
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Four Ways to Improve Patient-Provider Communication
Poor communication can increase medical errors and hospital readmission rates for patients with chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure and diabetes as well as lead to misuse of medications.
April 1st, 2021
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Beyond Managing: Leadership for Healthcare Teams
Healthcare is becoming more complex and specialized, with increased demand for complex health services and fast adoption of new methods. These trends have forced providers take a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare, including a greater need for effective, integrative teams.
April 1st, 2021
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Six Things You Need to Know About End of Life Care
Our healthcare model pushes to extend life, even if it comes at a high cost and sacrifices the quality of the patient’s remainder of life. These six observations focus on the latest developments surrounding care at the end of life.
April 1st, 2021
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Nashville General Hospital at Meharry
Prior to implementing Echo, the reappointment process required two FTEs for five business days—and perhaps six sacrificed trees and seven bursting file cabinets. The reappointment process required a total of 80 hours. The process revised with Echo requires just one FTE for three hours—a savings of 77 hours.