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How Leadership Styles in Healthcare Impact a Staff
Research has identified a wide range of leadership styles. What is the best one for your organization and how do you develop leaders that will help build a great healthcare organization?
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Should I Be an Emergency Room Nurse? Questions to Ask Yourself
Here are some questions to ask yourself if you wonder about becoming an Emergency Room Nurse. Healthcare organizations can select the best nurses for the ED by ensuring that they have both the clinical and non-clinical skills to be successful in this department.
April 1st, 2021
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Preventing Risks Involved with Compounding Medication
Understanding the risks inherent in sterile and nonsterile compounding and incorporating established standards into daily practice is essential for patient safety. Ensure staff is aware of the risks involved with this treatment option.
April 1st, 2021
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Education Is Not Always the Answer in Healthcare
When mistakes and errors occur in our organizations, it is our obligation to analyze these problems and assess the reason(s) why they occurred. These problems have many different names: sentinel events, incident reports, near misses, etc.
April 1st, 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 1st, 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 1st, 2021
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The Role of Continuing Education (CE) in Improving Patient Outcomes
The 2010 Affordable Care Act has initiated broad and transformational change to our healthcare system, with reimbursements shifting from fee-for-service care to value-based care. In response to the changes upon us, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) launched a two-year initiative to assess and provide thought leadership on transforming the nursing profession.
April 1st, 2021
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The Skilled Nursing Facility 30-Day All Cause Readmission: What’s Next?
Learn how medical pro providers have begun to take a closer look at hospital readmissions that occur within 30 days of discharge, from HealthStream.
April 1st, 2021
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7 Steps to Implement a Digital Rounding Solution in Healthcare
When implementing a digital rounding solution, leadership must spend considerable time researching their options, understanding all technical requirements, and strategizing to get the most out of their investment.
April 1st, 2021
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A Strategic Approach to Compliance Training: KnowledgeQ®
HealthStream’s answer to the healthcare industry’s demand for a strategic approach to annual mandatory training. The stakes are too high to continue a “check-the-box” exercise that offers almost no visibility into the cost of delivering training and whether expenditures could be eliminated or redirected to more effective initiatives.
April 1st, 2021
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Five Tips for Managing Employed Physicians
Physicians often lead the team that surrounds every patient, and we must integrate them into the patient experience in a way that enables the best patient outcomes.
April 1st, 2021
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Penn Medicine Goes Paperless for Credentials Review Process
The Medical Staff Office (MSO) for Penn Medicine uses Echo as the source of truth for all provider information related to credentialing and health plan enrollment. Recently, the Penn Medicine MSO made a strategic decision to streamline and automate their processes.
April 1st, 2021
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Leaders Take Note: Your Attention to Patients Can Improve Outcomes
Within healthcare, rounding is an effective way for staff to monitor patient recovery and assess fundamental components of the hospital stay. In addition, rounding is used for diverse functions, from auditing hospital equipment to gathering feedback from employees.
April 1st, 2021
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Common Challenges to Purposeful Leader Rounding
Perhaps the most obvious constraint to purposeful leader rounding is time. With the countless tasks that hospital leaders manage behind the scenes to improve care services, it can be challenging to find the time for frontline activities.
April 1st, 2021
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Understanding Compliance for ADA and Section 508 Regulations
Several years ago, we started getting inquiries for our billing, security, and workforce compliance courses to be made compliant with ADA and 508 regulations. In particular, customers were expressing interest in the standards set forth by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as well as by the ADA.
April 1st, 2021
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Improve Patient Outcomes with Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support
EBSCO Health provides users with a wide array of content covering over 50 nursing specialties, leadership, management, culturally competent care, and more.
April 1st, 2021
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Training for Active Shooter in a Hospital: Best Practices
The times we live in call for a more active role in our personal safety and that of hospital patients and staff to be prepared for an active shooter.
April 1st, 2021
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Leadership Development is a Growing Concern in Healthcare
Healthcare providers are functioning in a landscape that seems to be reshaped on a daily basis. While attempting to adjust to the explosion of healthcare reform, new regulations, performance standards, payment structures, ever-changing technology, and myriad other requirements, there remains the need to provide care to patients – and to do it perfectly every time.
April 1st, 2021
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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.
April 1st, 2021
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Focus on Physician Relationships to Achieve Better Patient and Financial Outcomes
Bethesda Health CFO Joanna Aquilina shares her belief that the key to achieving good patient and financial outcomes is strong physician relationships. She highlights the importance of every CFO’s commitment to this end.