Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

Healthcare Trends are Reshaping the Recruitment Landscape: Infographic

Emerging, long-range trends impact the healthcare workforce in key ways, including driving up demand for staff across the board. Healthcare faces a shortage of important roles. Learn in this infographic how recruiting and hiring must change in healthcare.

Core Competencies Could Strengthen Clinical Research Workforce

Having a set of core competencies will be “incredibly helpful” in addressing the current clinical research associate (CRA) shortage. This will benefit those transitioning into clinical research, as well as those making lateral or vertical moves in the clinical trial workplace.

Healthcare Employee Retention: Best Practices

In 2015, Memorial Hermann staff were working feverishly to keep up with demand for healthcare in their growing Houston service area. Implementing tools like Stay Interviews, the healthcare organization raised the overall retention rate from 75% to 88%.

Improve Your Odds of Healthcare Hiring Success with Psychometric Testing

Those who are reticent toward psychometric testing would be well-served by thinking about building the entire selection system without focusing on the assessment alone.

Patient Safety is Improving: Some Positive Indications of Progress

The most recent National Healthcare QDR cites that measures of patient safety improved, with a 17 percent reduction in HACs.

Ready for Conflict of Interest (COI) Management Implementation? 10 Best Practices

Implementing a new software solution to manage conflicts of interest (COI) can be a daunting effort for an organization. The team must be fully prepared and engaged. Here are ten best practices that can help ensure a successful implementation.

Preparing Your Practice for Value-Based Care: Five Best Practices

With your Medicare reimbursement at risk based on your participation in the Quality Payment Program this year, it’s critical that you start now. Don’t leave money on the table by failing to prepare

10 Reasons Global Patient Safety is Important: eBook Excerpt

Patient safety is vitally important. Here are 10 safety facts and descriptions that highlight this importance from the World Health Organization.

Meet Healthcare Job Shortages by Building a Coding Workforce from Non-traditional Sources

As part of the Transitions Program, nThrive Education is partnering with health care organizations across the nation to provide education and training to unemployed and underemployed workers, many whom have no healthcare experience.

Healthcare Recruiting: Art or Science?

In today’s healthcare world, recruiting and selection certainly isn’t that clear-cut. In a value-based system there is great emphasis on empathy and delivering the best possible patient experience; and yet, clinical quality can’t be sacrificed in the process.

Using Digital Rounding as a Best Practice for Improving Patient Safety

Successful patient safety initiatives improve patient lives and outcomes. Although it may be hard for hospitals to successfully implement changes in workflow to enhance patient safety, technology like digital rounding can make it easier to achieve.

Improve Your Organization’s Hiring Success with Healthcare-Targeted Psychometric Testing: Podcast

Assessments for prospective hires should be built specifically to measure relevant attributes in the healthcare industry. Healthcare organizations need to define the behavioral traits required by each specific role.

Improving Patient Safety, From Rounding with Patient Advisors: Podcast

Another thing that we have done is to implement safety rounds, where we have our patient advisers make safety rounds in the hospitals with our hospital presidents or the quality directors.

Competency Must Be an Integral Part of the Privileging Process

Hospitals have been granting clinical privileges for approximately 40-50 years, but for much of that time period, privileging systems have not addressed current clinical competency in any meaningful way. In recent years this has been changing, by necessity.

Ransomware, Breaches, Enforcement Actions…Preventive Best Practices

With on-site audits expected to pick up when desk audits are completed, and ransomware attacks expected to increase this year, healthcare organizations need to be ever more vigilant.