If you are not yet confident that your organization has a successful strategy for building a culture that supports health equity and belonging, reach out to HealthStream today to learn more about how Health Equity and Belonging Education can help move your organization closer to becoming an organization that supports all of the healthcare needs of the community it serves and supports employees.
Achieve nursing excellence with standardized training and orientation practices. Explore strategies for consistent, high-quality training that enhance patient care and support professional growth.
In today's fast-paced world, efficiency is key, especially in the healthcare industry. CredentialMyDoc by HealthStream® has emerged as a game-changing solution for medical groups seeking to simplify their credentialing and provider enrollment processes. We recently sat down with Ashlyn Tyson, Associate Product Manager at HealthStream, to learn more about the latest enhancements to this innovative web-based platform. In our chat, Ashlyn shares how CredentialMyDoc is continuing to revolutionize the way medical groups manage credentialing and provider enrollment.
As flu season approaches along with the threat of staffing shortages, the challenges of managing nursing and other healthcare staff scheduling are emerging as even more urgent priorities. The good news is that centralized staffing solutions can help leaders ensure safe, seamless care for patients while also providing a solution that will engage employees. Click here for a demo of HealthStream’s ShiftWizard.
Continuing education and professional development directly impact employees’ knowledge, confidence, and job satisfaction, improving their performance. It may also be the key to creating a happier staff, given its significance to employee competence and confidence. If educational opportunities help improve employees’ happiness, it makes sense that such offerings would be beneficial to the company and its employees. Here, we take a look at a few ways in which this investment is worthwhile.
Moving from paper to pixel for checklist management can reduce errors, improve consistency and reduce management time. HealthStream’s Checklist is easy to implement with dedicated success managers that can help assist in the digital transition by reviewing existing checklists and making recommendations and helping to build checklists for quick and easy access.
Changes in the workplace can indeed be hard for staff. Employees have a lack of knowledge about what to expect and a fear of the unknown, and they will question why the change is occurring. It is important for managers to understand this and to be prepared to address all of these issues. Here are six tips on how to coordinate a smooth transition to a new scheduling solution in your facility.
HealthStream has created the foundation for interoperability and offers a significant upside for customers and developers who can build on HealthStream’s 30 years of hard work and development. All of the systems working together makes them stronger and can result in safer, more compliant and more efficient healthcare.
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.”
In this blog post, we outline several considerations to help healthcare organizations understand the distinction between expertise and specialties, and how they relate to privileging and branding of healthcare providers.
Healthcare leaders know that ineffective compliance programs create risk, but if they cannot pinpoint what ineffective compliance actually looks like, it becomes difficult to build an effective compliance program. HealthStream and their industry expert partners have identified the top 10 most common compliance pitfalls.
Harnessing 'quick wins' can be a powerful strategy for critical access hospitals (CAHs) to bolster their operations and ease the financial and staffing strains that they encounter in a persistently challenging healthcare environment.
Employee self-scheduling is a valuable tool for improving work-life balance and enhancing job satisfaction for nurses, and it frees up time for managers to do other tasks besides scheduling. Therefore, leadership should prioritize it as part of their workforce environment.
In this eBook, we cover it all, from basic education on the history and fundamentals of clinical privileging to how to navigate the regulatory and legal aspects involved. It’s an ideal fit for both MSPs new to the field of privileging and seasoned pros looking to gain additional knowledge of privileging processes.
WakeMed has more than 8 facilities, 8500 employees, and 900 staffed beds in their system. Established in 1961, WakeMed has also achieved ANCC Magnet Recognition.
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.
Written by industry-leading professionals, this white paper offers a detailed look at the staffing crisis along with strategies to implement to better support, retain, and engage your valuable employees.
Sentara was able to use CredentialStream's organization and ease of use to support their mission of improving healthcare through innovation.
HealthStream’s ShiftWizard can be an important part of your organization’s strategy to address retention and recruitment while creating engagement and reducing burnout. Reach out to HealthStream today to schedule a demo.
Updated research highlights several variables that come into play when determining the appropriate Staff-to-Provider Ratios in Medical Staff Credentialing. Get the details in this post.
