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Article—Using Artificial Intelligence to Assess Critical Thinking for Healthcare

Assessing clinical competency is essential for knowing whether healthcare staff members know how to create positive outcomes. Artificial Intelligence tools can play a key role in helping healthcare organizations ensure clinicians are prepared to provide great care.

April 01, 2021

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Palliative Care Vs. Hospice Care—How They Differ

Palliative care and hospice care are often mentioned together, which can lead to confusion about what each one entails. Lack of knowledge, especially about palliative care, may hamper the many benefits of these services for those who most need them.

April 01, 2021

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We Need a New Way to Teach Nursing Thinking and Clinical Judgment

Educating new nurses to become better thinkers who can make sound clinical judgements isn’t easy. Without uniform instructional methods, the development of critical thinking competency in new nurses can feel as if left up to serendipity.

April 01, 2021

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The Importance of Nurses’ Critical Thinking in Healthcare

In any area of healthcare that is highly integrated with technology, there is a strong need for clinicians to have a high level ability to think critically. Developing this ability is very important.

April 01, 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 01, 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 01, 2021

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When Disliking the Work Environment Is Why Some Employees Leave Healthcare Jobs

Healthcare jobs occur in an environment that doesn’t work for everyone. Sometimes changes can be made to make the environment less onerous so that workers stay.

April 01, 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 01, 2021

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Are We Successfully Training New Nurses to Think Like a Nurse?

The challenge for nursing schools to teach their learners how to think like a nurse is a significant one. A lack of judgment skills may inhibit a new nurse’s ability to recognize clinical deterioration, which can result in compromised patient safety.

April 01, 2021

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How to Ensure Your Healthcare Training Meets All Relevant Federal and State Training Requirements

Up to now, it has been very difficult for healthcare organizations to be certain their clinicians and other staff were receiving training that complied with every applicable federal and state regulation. hStream Compass is a solution for this common problem.

April 01, 2021

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Why Employees Leave Healthcare Jobs for Better Work-Life Balance

Healthcare jobs can make the flexibility demands of a modern life too difficult to manage, unless they are paying attention to unhappy employees and giving them some options to adjust such components as schedules, travel demands, and commute issues.

April 01, 2021

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What Does It Mean To Be The Source Of Truth for Credentialing Data?

What does it really mean to be the trustworthy Source of Truth for credentialing data? Here are a few questions to ask yourself before declaring your system to be the Source of Truth or feeding your data to a downstream system.

April 01, 2021

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How To Create & Manage A Comprehensive Coding Audit

A comprehensive coding audit requires thoughtful preparation, including identifying its goals and scope, in order to achieve the desired results.

April 01, 2021

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Some Healthcare Employees Depart Jobs to Take Better Care of Themselves

Some healthcare jobs can be hazardous to an employee’s health. If healthcare organizations are not paying attention to employees’ needs or to improving the workload and environment, they may find themselves having big problems with retention.

April 01, 2021

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When Poor Management is the Reason a Healthcare Employee Leaves

To have an impact on healthcare turnover, organizations should ensure that their managers are doing a good job and treating their direct reports fairly. In many cases, it’s true that people don’t leave companies as often as they leave managers.

April 01, 2021

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Compliance Trends-The Changing Nature of Corporate Integrity Agreements (CIAs)

A team of content experts from HCCS, A HealthStream Company, recently attended the Health Care Compliance Association’s 2018 Enforcement Conference, where some sessions focused on the changing approach to CIAs.

April 01, 2021

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What Are Some of the Typical Positions in Healthcare Compliance?

Compliance jobs exist across many industries, but job duties and responsibilities for them are remarkably similar, regardless of where you work. . Here some of the typical positions representative of a healthcare compliance program.

April 01, 2021

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Understanding the Regulatory Burden across the Healthcare Spectrum

The regulatory burden faced by organizations across the healthcare continuum is significant in terms of the time and resources involved in meeting its requirements. $39 billion is the annual cost to healthcare providers to comply with the administrative aspects of regulatory compliance.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Trend Watch — Digital healthcare organizations are emerging

Digital transformation requires rethinking business processes of all kinds. It’s fundamentally about using digital technologies and data to put the customer/patient at the center of your business.

April 01, 2021

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The Financial and Care Impacts of Healthcare Turnover

The cost of turnover at one major medical center represented a loss of more than 5 percent of the total annual operating budget, according to an article in Health Care Management Review.

April 01, 2021