The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world of healthcare upside down, especially in terms of how care professionals feel about their work and their employers. Here are some reasons nurse engagement is important, as well as some strategies to improve it.
In order for Standards of Performance to become ingrained in a healthcare organization's culture, they must be hardwired so that employees live and breathe them daily. Communication is the key to making a permanent connection between the Standards and the behaviors that most exemplify the culture, serving as the backbone of its success.
In this four article eBook, HealthStream takes a broad look at the various issues that long-term care organizations are facing. We present the results of a COVID-19 survey conducted among healthcare leaders, we review top issues that are changing the delivery of care, and what the future of long-term care will look like in a post-pandemic world.
Health plans face a growing list of challenges, offering high-quality healthcare services affordably while building and maintaining a robust network amongst provider shortages, navigating regulatory requirements and compliance issues, ensuring access and reliability of provider directories and more.
Join HealthStream and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) as we explore the transformative power education has on empowering today’s nurses to be tomorrow’s leaders.
Any time your service fails to meet a customer’s expectations, service recovery is in order. Remember, if the customer perceives that there is a problem, there is a problem.
Research suggests that healthcare leaders may be missing some recruitment opportunities amongst student nurses and other clinical students. myClinicalExchange can create efficiencies in your onboarding process and free up leaders so that they are able to help students connect with the organization and its job opportunities. Reach out to HealthStream today to learn more about how HealthStream and myClinicalExchange can improve recruitment efforts among new nurses and clinicians.
Floyd County Medical Center is an independent 25-bed Critical Access Hospital and Rural Health Clinic located in the charming northeast Iowa river town of Charles City, Iowa. FCMC offers inpatient and skilled nursing care, along with outpatient services such as diabetes management, nutrition education, wound care, therapy, wellness labs, and advanced MRI/CT imaging.
This webinar will showcase how CommonSpirit Health successfully navigated the acquisition process, aligned policies, and standardized workflows across multiple hospitals and clinics. Learn how myClinicaiExchange helped them manage clinical placements, reduce manual processes, and enhance efficiency, ultimately supporting organizational growth while maintaining compliance and training standards.\n\n
In addition to many other impacts, COVID-19 has emphasized the extreme importance of succession planning within healthcare organizations. This blog post examines how the pandemic is an opportunity to refocus the process of finding new healthcare leaders.
By embracing delegated credentialing, healthcare organizations can unlock a win-win solution for providers, plans, and ultimately, patients. Streamlined processes, quicker enrollment, and enhanced provider satisfaction make delegated credentialing the future of efficient and effective healthcare administration. Partnering with the right NCQA-accredited delegate empowers medical organizations to focus on what they do best – delivering high-quality care – while leaving credentialing in the hands of experienced experts.
High turnover, increasing vacancy rates, a crisis of nurse burnout – you’ve read the headlines, and you’re probably feeling it in your own facility. There is tremendous pressure to provide the support clinicians need to quickly onboard and competently develop in their skills, no matter where they are on the spectrum of knowledge or career path. You need to provide resources that educate, empower, and improve care – but to do this to scale and within budget? It seems like an impossible task.
Join us for a 30-minute complimentary webinar where our experts from HealthStream and FinThrive will guide you through best practices for highlighting patient safety amongst your revenue cycle staff, reinforcing your team’s dedication to excellence in healthcare.
Our eBook “A Beginner’s Guide to Privileging” covers everything from the history and fundamentals of clinical privileging to the regulatory and legal aspects of this work. Whether you are an MSP, a credentialing committee member, or a director on the hospital’s board, this eBook can help increase your understanding of this essential function. In the meantime, this blog post will serve as a high-level introduction.
The role of today’s CNO has expanded quite significantly. This leader needs excellent business skills, a solid grasp of financial and accounting principles, plus technical expertise with various software. As Healthcare Finance News reports, “Today’s CNO must be as comfortable talking about methods to improve productivity and reporting and the strategic importance (or lack thereof) of an IT initiative as they are about patient care initiatives.”
Acuity-based staffing models can improve outcomes, staff satisfaction and financial performance, but require a technology solution to insure safe staffing. HealthStream’s Acuity and Assignment Manager can help leaders synthesize all of the required data to support an acuity-based staffing model.
Join us for this instructive webinar as we delve into the successful rollout of the S.T.A.B.L.E. Program 7th Edition and the S.T.A.B.L.E. Foundations courses. Our dynamic presenters, Dr. Kris Karlsen and Dr. Chris McElvogue, will share valuable insights pertaining to the latest educational tools from S.T.A.B.L.E. and address some of the frequently asked questions stemming from our 2024 launch webinar, to provide further clarity and direction for all participants.
There is an undeniable link between health literacy and health outcomes, but few Americans have the proficiency needed to manage their health. Here are some suggestions for improving it.
Readiness for neonatal stabilization is important to both short and long-term neonatal outcomes. The S.T.A.B.L.E. program can have a positive impact on student scores and improve their confidence while in the NICU and is a great solution to minimize the impact of reduced clinical exposure to neonates during pediatric residency.
Deaconess Gateway Hospital has 10 nursing units and an additional 10 nursing units at the main hospital campus, as well as a resource team across those units using ShiftWizard.