Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

Three Suggestions for Improving Healthcare Conflict of Interest (COI) Management

To establish a baseline for COI compliance programs, HCCS surveyed 281 U.S. healthcare compliance leaders about their programs. Using the results, here are three suggestions HCCS offers to improve COI Management effectiveness across the healthcare industry.

Preventing a Cascade of Nursing Actions That Can Lead to Errors

The first step in preventing adverse patient events is to ensure that there is a culture of safety in hospitals and organizations. Adverse events need to be viewed as both a learning opportunity and a new opportunity to use a systems approach to patient safety and error prevention.

Virtual Care Technology – Challenges & Solutions

Virtual Care Technology – Challenges & Solutions The Outlook for Virtual Healthcare Technology Virtual care technology may be one of the major ways we can change how healthcare is delivered to meet the growing needs of the U.S. population. Here are some its challenges and opportunities, as well as predictions for the future.

Improving Resuscitation throughout the Care Continuum – Article Excerpt

Resuscitation Expert Donna Haynes make the case for redoubling the efforts across the healthcare continuum to improve resuscitation readiness and competency. Success rates are grim; we can make a difference!

What Is Performance-Guided Learning—And Why It Matters

Performance-guided learning changes the education dynamic in healthcare by connecting job performance with educational goals, allowing employees to be both student and teacher and evolve in ways that play to their strengths.

The Nursing Transition from Classroom to Clinical Floor Involves a Risk of Mistakes

The transition from the classroom to the clinical floor can be extremely challenging for new graduate nurses, and it is easy for them to unwittingly make serious mistakes.

What Are the Levels of Hospice Care?

Patients in hospice care may need differing hospice levels of care, as the impact of disease progresses or their health condition worsens. Every type of hospice care is appropriate when an illness is not responding to medical attempts to cure it or to slow the disease's progress.

Healthcare Emergencies Don’t Come with Multiple Choice Questions

When split-second decisions have to be made, no one is giving a healthcare professional a multiple choice question to guide the care provided. Clinicians must be prepared to make decisions and take action without the prompting a multiple choice question is likely to provide.

Resuscitation - Vital Treatment Option Applies to More Than Cardiac Events

A high-quality resuscitation program doesn’t just cover cardiac arrest but prepares students for any medical eventuality in which they may be called on to provide care.

Reducing Readmission Rates in Healthcare

Hospital readmissions affect staffing, revenue and care quality. But, readmission rates vary greatly by hospital and by state, providing us with an indication that we might have the opportunity to reduce rates by improving hospital processes. Learn more.

Decreasing Adverse Patient Outcomes - How a Quality Onboarding Program Reduces Errors (Article)

Equipping your care providers with a quality residency program at the start of their careers is one way to prevent the unfortunate combination of actions that can lead to adverse patient outcomes.

Five Steps for Teaching Each Clinical Judgment Competency for Nursing

Teaching a clinical judgment competency for nursing students and new nurses is far more effective if you use an overall process that is systematic and formalized. Caputi offers five useful steps to teach individual clinical judgment competencies

Assessing the Components of Clinical Competence

You have to assess multiple healthcare employee attributes to get a complete picture of his or her level of clinical competency. It is important to measure knowledge, skill level, and emotional intelligence in staff members and then instituting measures to enhance these characteristics.

Multiple Organizations, Scientific Disciplines Inform Solid Resuscitation Programs

Resuscitation programs, such as those produced by the American Red Cross, are grounded in internationally vetted science, and also supported by clinical data on all possible types of scenarios, so that students are prepared for any eventuality.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Critical Thinking Development in Healthcare

AI has the potential to help healthcare really understand their clinicians’ critical thinking ability. In the article from which this post is taken, HealthStream’s Associate VP for Clinical Staff Development, Christie Kerwan, spoke about what AI tools offer for clinical development.