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Floating Employees During Flu Season - How to Let ShiftWizard Guide Your Scheduling Decisions

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.

August 31st, 2023

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The Power of Education: Fostering Employee Happiness and Enhancing Business Performance

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.

August 31st, 2023

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From Paper to Pixel - The Digital Checklist Advantage

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.

August 28th, 2023

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6 Tips to Make a Smooth Transition to a New Scheduling Solution

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.

August 21st, 2023

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Innovations in Interoperability with HealthStream

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.

August 17th, 2023

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Strategies to Succeed as a New Chief Nursing Officer

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.”

August 11th, 2023

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Understanding Expertise vs. Specialties in the Healthcare Industry

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.

August 9th, 2023

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10 Pitfalls of Healthcare Compliance and How to Avoid Them

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.

August 9th, 2023

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3 quick wins for critical access hospitals to strengthen their operations

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.

August 7th, 2023

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How to make nurse self-scheduling a win for everyone

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.

August 4th, 2023

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A Beginner's Guide to Privileging

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.

July 25th, 2023

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WakeMed Saves $2.1 Million in Overtime Costs with ShiftWizard

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.

July 24th, 2023

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Staffing Optimized at Deaconess with Enterprise-Wide ShiftWizard Implementation

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.

July 24th, 2023

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An In-Depth Look at the Healthcare Staffing Shortage

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.

July 14th, 2023

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A health system’s journey to future-proofing credentialing & privileging

Sentara was able to use CredentialStream's organization and ease of use to support their mission of improving healthcare through innovation.

July 14th, 2023

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The Changing Role of Healthcare HR Leaders: New Strategies to Recruit and Retain the Next Generation Workforce

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.

July 13th, 2023

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Updated 2023 Staff-to-Provider Ratios in Medical Staff Credentialing

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.

July 11th, 2023

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New, modern scheduling achieved at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System

With over 10,000 employees, 1,747 beds, and 10 locations, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System has been serving patients for over 100 years and have relied on various scheduling and capacity tools for 30 of those years.

July 11th, 2023

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Simplified Medical Management: Get a Grip on Your Practice

You cannot track a high volume of credentialing with Excel, you lose a lot of footwork and data!

July 11th, 2023

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The Dire Need for Interoperability in HealthCare

Creating interoperability in healthcare will require more than just technology. All of the unique requirements of the healthcare industry need to be understood in order to build a platform that will work for providers, regardless of setting. It will also be important to remove the remaining silos of proprietary data and financial self-interest to build a platform that will allow providers to make better decisions about patient care.

July 10th, 2023

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