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Primary Nursing Paves the Way for Safer, More Rewarding Care

I have to admit that I am dumbfounded by the resistance I’ve encountered from direct care providers, right up to the CNO, to Primary Nursing. The first time I heard a colleague share an example of a Primary Nurse explaining his or her role to a patient, I remember thinking, “This is great; I would really feel safe as a patient or family member if my nurse spoke those words.”

April 01, 2021

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New Partnership for Expert Online Compliance Training Courses

HealthStream has formed a strategic partnership with Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. (HCCS), a leading provider of online compliance and competency training courses. The partnership enables HealthStream clients to train their staff using well respected online compliance education directly on their existing HealthStream Learning Center platform.

April 01, 2021

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Creating Positive Change in Healthcare Through Appreciative Questions

Appreciative questions are a simple and effective way to inspire people and reinforce desired behavior. They can put a positive spin on huddles, staff meetings or during casual rounds with staff.

April 01, 2021

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Writing a Healthcare Competency: How Detailed Should You Get?

I get many questions from people about how detailed to get when writing a healthcare competency statement. Should you write a competency statement and then add a sub-set of details that reflect all the skill aspects of that competency or details that describe the steps of a given procedure? The answer to this is, “Not necessarily.”

April 01, 2021

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The Hardest Job in Healthcare: Partnership is Key for Clinical Managers

I recently surveyed a group of clinical managers who were identified by their supervisors as exemplars based on these key outcomes:

April 01, 2021

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Nurses Have an Amazing Capacity to Do More

I know if I said “Nurses have an amazing capacity to do more” in a speech before an audience of nurses many would get angry, and some would probably walk out. And yet, it is something that I believe to be true. Not for all nurses, not in all work situations, not all the time, but something we would be foolish to deny.

April 01, 2021

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Nursing: Which is More Important-Butts in Seats or Measurable Change?

To all of my fellow professional development specialists out there: If someone asked you what your outcomes are this month, how would you answer?

April 01, 2021

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Empowering Families to Create Better Patient Outcomes

We need to empower families to be partners with us, not visitors to the room. This is true patient/family empowerment in their care—inviting their input so that we design the best care for that individual and help them to be a healing presence for their loved one.

April 01, 2021

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American Heart Association Instructor Essentials Courses Now Available!

AHA Instructor Essentials courses are new online courses that have replaced the AHA Core Instructor Course, which has been discontinued. The Instructor Essentials courses are a required step to become an AHA Instructor, to add a discipline, and for all AHA Faculty.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Mentoring Matters Pt.3: Establishing Mentee Trust & Safety

In Part II of the HealthStream Mentoring Matters series, I defined the three top priorities for developing a successful mentor/mentee relationship as: 1) defining the mentor/mentee goals, 2) formalizing the goals by writing them out and articulating who is responsible for what, and 3) developing an actionable timeline for accomplishing the agreed upon goals.

April 01, 2021

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Getting the Most Out of Patient Rounds

Patient rounds can have unexpected benefits when a few simple techniques are followed. Over time, as I began to refine my approach, I got better results: I noticed that patients became reassured and felt safer, I got meaningful staff compliments, and I learned useful ideas to make care even better because patients felt more comfortable sharing.

April 01, 2021

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7 Tips for Packing Your Bags for Your Magnet Journey

Summer is here, and many of us have a vacation planned in the near future. If you are anything like me (a planner!), you are making lists, buying new outfits, and coordinating activities to ensure a wonderful vacation.

April 01, 2021

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New Medical Devices: Training Should Never Be an Afterthought

If you’re not familiar with the ECRI Institute, you should be. For more than 45 years, ECRI has been using applied scientific research to determine which procedures, medical devices and technology, pharmaceuticals, and processes to help you improve patient care and outcomes.

April 01, 2021

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Caregivers: The Importance of Taking Care of Our Four Selves

Janet Hagberg once said “If the three elements of body, mind and spirit are in balance, they reinforce one another; if they are out of balance they multiply problems.”

April 01, 2021

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Top 7 Ways to Sustain Cultural Transformation in Healthcare

As I partner with organizations that have been on their Relationship-Based Care (RBC) journey for several years, invariably at some point the big question becomes, “How does my team maintain the exuberance and creativity to continue to deepen and also sustain our cultural transformation?”

April 01, 2021

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Sepsis Touches Many of Us, Professionally or Personally

As professionals we are acutely aware of the increased profile of sepsis of late. But do we know why it has risen to such a level of importance in discussion or why it has become a critical quality initiative? Do we fully understand the implications of sepsis, even in its early stages? Do we know the stages of the sepsis and its progression?

April 01, 2021

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3 Priorities for Successful Healthcare Mentor/Mentee Relationships

In Mentoring Matters: Part I, I defined the mentor/mentee relationship as a reciprocal and collaborative relationship that sets out to assist the mentee with his or her professional development by defining goals, actions, and behaviors that will ultimately help the mentee be successful.

April 01, 2021

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From the Int'l Pediatric Simulation Symposia & Workshop 2013: Pt. 2

Last month HealthStream sponsored HealthySimulation.com’s attendance to the 5th annual IPSSW (International Pediatric Simulation Symposia and Workshop) in New York.

April 01, 2021

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For Healthcare Staff, Mentoring Matters: Part I

With the increasing complexity of the healthcare environment, increased amount of technical knowledge required to practice, shorter lengths of stay, and increased acuity of patient populations, nurses are faced with a phenomenon that has been dubbed by research from the University of Minnesota as “complexity compression.”

April 01, 2021

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From the Int'l Pediatric Simulation Symposia & Workshop 2013: Pt. 1

Last month HealthStream sponsored my attendance to the 5th Annual International Pediatric Simulation Symposia and Workshops Conference or IPSSW. This specialized simulation meeting took place in the heart of New York City on 103rd st across from Central Park at the historic New York Academy of Medicine. Watch the video and read below for Part 1 of my event coverage below.

April 01, 2021