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Why Should We Reward and Recognize in Healthcare? Best Practice Series

A program for rewarding and recognizing employees is one of the most effective tools available to inspire, motivate and create excellence within your organization’s culture. Employee satisfaction is driven by a variety of factors, both tangible and intangible, from friendly work environment to good pay. In an effort to pin down exactly what matters most to individuals, behavioral science surveys have repeatedly asked employees what brings them the highest job satisfaction.

April 01, 2021

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Predicting the Impact of the Physician Payment Sunshine Database

The Physician Payment Sunshine Act requires that all manufacturers of drugs, devices, and biological and medical supplies covered by federal health care programs report all financial relationships with physicians and teaching hospitals to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

April 01, 2021

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9 Healthcare Training Best Practices for EMR Adoption

With increasing frequency and impact, healthcare organizations are implementing EMR systems, such as Epic, to improve patient care and outcomes, drive standardization and reduce variability in clinical practice, accelerate adoption of evidence-based practices, optimize Meaningful Use Incentives, and reduce costs.

April 01, 2021

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Engaging Your Emergency Room Staff: An Employee Satisfaction Lesson

According to research, four out of ten workers globally are disengaged. In the healthcare industry, the situation is worse. Nurses in the U.S. are overworked, stressed, and emotionally and physically exhausted, causing nearly 50% of staff to be either disengaged or just moderately engaged. This situation is not helpful to an industry that is seeking to increase its workforce.

April 01, 2021

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What Matters to Emergency Department Physicians?

What is important to Emergency Department physicians, and how do they compare to physicians from other medical specialties? HealthStream has a database of more than 37,000 physicians who have recently participated in our Physician Insights Survey. Within this database, more than 2,500 physicians are Emergency Medicine Specialists.

April 01, 2021

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The Power of Rounding in the Emergency Department

Leaders often ask which tool is most effective for improving the patient experience in the emergency department. If they were to select and implement just one item with the most impact for enhancing service in the ED, what would it be? The answer to that question is simple.

April 01, 2021

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Top Six Goal-Setting Practices for Healthcare Organizations

Are your employees aware of your healthcare organization’s vision and top objectives? If your organization is like most hospitals and healthcare organizations, employees do not have any insight into your key objectives.

April 01, 2021

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Become a Stellar Perioperative Nurse: Education and Professional Development

Why settle for being an average clinician when one can be an outstanding, competent performer? Proficiency at an expert level takes self-confidence, personal motivation, commitment, dedication, and time.

April 01, 2021

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How Results Physiotherapy Saved Time Spent on Provider Credentialing

Founded in 1996, Results Physiotherapy is privately held and offers world-class physical therapy, a groundbreaking advance over exercise-only treatments. With 48 clinics located in six states, Results Physiotherapy provides the latest physical therapy treatments, uses the newest, evidence-based techniques, and educates its therapists to the highest international standards.

April 01, 2021

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Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Today's Emergency Department

Emergency departments (ED) play an increasingly important role in the U.S. healthcare system. They care for a broad spectrum of the U.S. population and can sometimes be overwhelmed with issues such as overcrowding and lack of reimbursement. Yet, in this complex environment, innovation and change are flourishing.

April 01, 2021

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Benefits of Hourly Rounding in Nursing

Learn how hourly rounding improves communication and ensures the best outcomes in a healthcare setting between staff, patients, and loved ones, from HealthStream.

April 01, 2021

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Engage Healthcare Staff with Private, Group, and Corporate Recognition

Private recognition, group recognition, and corporate celebrations are measures for helping to engage healthcare staff.

April 01, 2021

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Building a Foundation for Quality Improvement in Post-Acute Care

Demographic/regulatory trends are increasing the need for post-acute care to pay more attention to quality improvement--this article discusses how.

April 01, 2021

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15 Conflict-of-Interest Best Practices for Academic Medical Centers

In an article in the May 2014 issue of Compliance Today, Bill Sacks, Vice President and co-founder of HCCS, a HealthStream company, describes how new NIH regulations are forcing academic medical centers (AMCs) to examine and update their conflict-of-interest policies.

April 01, 2021

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What It Takes To Be a Successful Hospital Emergency Department

Are you curious about what it takes to outperform your emergency department peers and sustain that level of performance year after year? One of the most common questions we get as we work with our Patient Insights customers is “what are your top performers doing to be so successful?”

April 01, 2021

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What Hourly Rounding is NOT and Why It Often Fails

From patient satisfaction to leader accountability, HealthStream analyzes what hourly rounding is not, why it often fails, and differences from traditional practice.

April 01, 2021

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Best Practices for Hospital Recognition Programs & Rewards

Here are three hospital recognition programs and reward best practices HealthStream's partners crafted, unique to their very own healthcare environments.

April 01, 2021

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What is Hourly Rounding? A Healthcare Best Practice

This blog post initiates our series of Best Practices from Baptist Leadership Group, a HealthStream Company. Every week we will share information from BLG that demonstrates their expansive understanding of the challenges faced by healthcare organizations and the solutions they have identified for improving the patient experience and patient and business outcomes.

April 01, 2021

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Hospital Implements EMR System Using HealthStream for Training

This HealthStream customer spotlight was featured in our most recent issue of PX Advisor. Fill out the form at the end of this post to download the full issue. Subscribe to future issues here.

April 01, 2021

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Essential Best Practices in Nurse Preceptor Training – White Paper

(This white paper was excerpted in the Winter 2014 issue of HealthStream's PX Advisor.)

April 01, 2021