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Five benefits of moving to American Red Cross Resuscitation Training

In addition to the value of a new approach to resuscitation training, adopting this program from the American Red Cross offers multiple benefits. Here are five of the most important reasons.

July 01, 2021

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Residential care industry changes that may result from COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis in nursing homes has brought attention and possible change to this area of care in unexpected and unanticipated ways. There is an opportunity to make a difference in how we invest in the residential care system and the quality of care it provides, from technology and higher wages a, to investing in the workforce.

June 23, 2021

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Improving clinical employee satisfaction to enhance retention

Improving clinical employee satisfaction is important like never before as healthcare faces serious employee shortages. Here are some recent examples of ways organizations are working to improve the healthcare employee work environment and especially nurse satisfaction.

June 18, 2021

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Forming a Disaster Management Plan for Healthcare

This is a time when large-scale disasters are becoming more frequent, some of them linked to climate change and global warming. This blog looks at healthcare disaster impacts, serious vulnerabilities, preparation best practices, and the need for enhanced disaster recovery planning in healthcare organizations.

June 17, 2021

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How do nurses influence health policy?

Given that there are more nurses than any other profession in healthcare, nurses should play a larger role in creating healthcare policy. This blog posts looks at why and how the policy change influence of nurses can be improved, as well as ways it is already felt.

June 14, 2021

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COVID-19 Made Reopening Long-Term Care Especially Difficult

The delayed reopening of nursing homes and long-term care facilities during the height of the COVID-19 was problematic for residents, who suffered in the absence of the vital support and engagement of visitors and family members.

June 11, 2021

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Sexual Identity and Unconscious Bias in Healthcare

For success in treatment and for encouraging healthy behaviors, a trusting relationship needs to exist between the patient and a healthcare professional. Ultimately, cultivating awareness is key to counteracting the negative impacts of unconscious sexual identity bias on members of the LGBT community.

June 10, 2021

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3 Areas of Focus for Nursing Informatics Competencies

This blog post examines three nursing informatics competencies and connects them to better patient care, healthcare initiatives and goals like lower readmission rates, and an improved overall sense of job fulfillment and engagement for nurses.

June 09, 2021

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Succession Planning Approaches for Healthcare Organizations

In addition to many other impacts, COVID-19 has emphasized the extreme importance of succession planning within healthcare organizations. This blog post examines how the pandemic is an opportunity to refocus the process of finding new healthcare leaders.

June 08, 2021

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Nursing Facility Employees Are Feeling Great Stress from COVID-19

Staff members in nursing homes are already faced with multiple challenges that cause a great deal of stress. Many are so poorly paid that they work multiple jobs across different facilities. This combination is a recipe for exhaustion, and during COVID-19, also adds to the stress around possible sources and transmission of infection.

June 07, 2021

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Potential COVID-19 Impact Greater on Rural and Single Provider Long Term Care

Duke Aging Care experts suggest there appears to be a correlation between more serious outbreaks of COVID-19 and location in rural areas, as well as the size of a facility and its affiliation with larger health systems.

May 14, 2021

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Reviews and Recognition as a Tool to Avoid Staff Burnout

Employees deserve recognition for the incredible lengths to which they are going during the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of adaptability, flexibility, and providing successful patient care in an unprecedented time. Use it to support employee engagement.

May 14, 2021

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Opioid Stewardship Training Based on the Input of Many Expert Stakeholders

Once NQF decided to focus its attention on the opioid crisis, its leadership began many months of work. They tapped outside experts for data and strategy ideas and began to look at how healthcare providers and entities could tackle the complex issues of opioid addiction and substance abuse disorder (SUD).

May 14, 2021

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Seven Fundamental Ways to Improve Opioid Stewardship with Expert Healthcare Training

Seven fundamental pillars of opioid stewardship are the foundation for the NQF opioid stewardship courseware available through HealthStream. This active learning, scenario-based curriculum takes the learner on a healthcare organization's journey to improved opioid stewardship.

May 14, 2021

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A Healthcare Education Solution Focused on the Opioid Crisis

May 14, 2021

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Target Opioid Stewardship Training by Expertise Level and Learner Needs

In addition to incorporating strategies for varying levels of expertise, the opioid stewardship course is also divided into modules that are targeted to the specific needs of two main cohorts: direct care and organizational non-direct care staff.

May 14, 2021

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Tactics to Improve Nurse Engagement

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world of healthcare upside down, especially in terms of how care professionals feel about their work and their employers. Here are some reasons nurse engagement is important, as well as some strategies to improve it.

May 14, 2021

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Webinar - Survey shows privileging for Telehealth a big issue in 2020 and beyond

VerityStream’s 2020 survey revealed that more than half (51.6%) of all respondents said their organization’s use of telehealth services increased significantly since the beginning of the pandemic, accompanied by credentialing challenges and other related issues.

May 14, 2021

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COVID-19 Underscores the Value of Internet-based Communication Devices for Keeping Residents Connected

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it extremely apparent that nursing homes and other long-term care facilities must move ahead in their efforts to encourage internet connectivity and use, as well as provide the necessary hardware to do so.

May 14, 2021

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Assessing the Impact of the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM)

The Patient-Driven Payment Model changed reimbursement in skilled nursing to be driven by the patient's clinical characteristics rather than the number of therapy minutes provided. After being in effect for more than a year, here are some attempts to assess its impact.

May 14, 2021