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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

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Primary Nursing Improves Outcomes

There have been times in my career when a change has been introduced, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why the decision was made to alter how we were currently doing things—why we’re changing structures or processes that seemed to be effective and working fine.

April 01, 2021

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Using Predictive Markets and Gamification for Healthcare Research

Do you wish you could be more confident in the product and marketing decisions you make for your healthcare organization?

April 01, 2021

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Triaging Post-Acute Care Retention and Turnover

This article describes how, given industry changes and readmission concerns, the post-acute care industry approach to retention and turnover must change radically.

April 01, 2021

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Workforce Professional Development is Important in Post-Acute Care

For post-acute care providers, workforce professional development can help improve patient/resident outcomes as well as staff engagement.

April 01, 2021