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Credentialing Residents and Fellows

To remain in compliance, our industry experts explain the definitions and credentialing requirements set by the Joint Commission for organizations that teach residents and fellows.

February 22nd, 2022

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ShiftWizard Celebrates Record Customer Growth

In nursing, shift management involves the right balance between people and patients and quality of care. Developed by nurses, ShiftWizard’s nurse scheduling software helps with communication and reporting. Learn how ShiftWizard’s 99.99% technical uptime performance and increased R&D investments in 2021 are contributing to record customer growth.

February 11th, 2022

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Provider Validate by HealthStream Supports the Transfer of Provider Data to Aid in Improving the Quality of Patient Care

Provider Validate, available in the App Orchard, allows Epic users to add external referring providers to their master provider database - directly from Hyperspace.

February 8th, 2022

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Healthcare Disparities Among Hispanic Communities

Hispanic communities in the U.S. are one of several racial or ethnic groups of people that already experience health disparities and have been hard-hit by the pandemic. To understand how COVID-19 is impacting Hispanic communities, it's important to acknowledge the factors contributing to the existing gaps in accessing health and healthcare impacting the Hispanic population.

January 23rd, 2022

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Residency program offers visibility and blended learning

Learn how CHRISTUS Health's nurse residency program is leveraging visibility and blended learning to build a better foundation for nursing education.

January 4th, 2022

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Flexibility, communication key to successful onboarding with myClinicalExchange

CoxHealth System implemented myClinicalExchange to streamline onboarding for their nursing students.

December 20th, 2021

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Leadership Development: A Must-Have for Future Success

Healthcare leaders face a daunting future. There is continued uncertainty about our nation’s ability to curb the current COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond that, there is the need to retool existing processes to meet the needs of a new decade.

December 20th, 2021

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Six Professional Goals for Nurse Managers

Prioritizing personal and professional goals can be difficult for nurse leaders, but maintaining and improving clinical and managerial skills is essential. Prioritize these six goals to maintain focus on those skills while modeling personal and professional growth for nurses on your team.

December 15th, 2021

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Cost Savings and Convenience with CE Unlimited

Learn how Columbia Memorial Hospital saved an estimated $18,000 by utilizing CE Unlimited.

December 7th, 2021

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From Commitments to Competitive Advantage: Implementing a GRC Framework

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) affects nearly every department within a hospital or healthcare system. GRC is vitally important to complying with regulation, adequately assessing risk, and ensuring policies and procedures are followed enterprise-wide. Learn more about what needs to consider prior to implementing a GRC strategy at your organization.

December 1st, 2021

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Setting SMART Goals as a Charge Nurse

The optimal way to create a SMART goal is to look at the big picture and then establish an attainable process for getting there. Having the right resources and using a disciplined approach that includes the right kinds of learning tools and people performance solutions can help ensure that your professional goals are achieved.

November 23rd, 2021

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Age-Specific Competencies: What are They and How to Manage Them

Training and measurement around age-specific competencies should be a part of your competency measurement program. Use the right tools to ensure that providers understand the needs of patients at every age and stage of life. Also, use tools that will help your organization’s leaders know whether or not your team is providing the best in age-specific care.

November 19th, 2021

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What is Ambulatory Care and Why is it Important?

Ambulatory care is an area of healthcare expected to experience a disproportionate share of growth in the coming years. This blog post explores the changing nature of ambulatory care and the work environment an ambulatory care nurse could expect to encounter.

November 16th, 2021

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Increase Efficiency and Patient Safety through Proven Technology

Healthcare organizations and their frontline clinical workforces have absorbed the brunt of the pandemic, along with bearing the emotional toll of witnessing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of individuals due to COVID-19. Across the country, many organizations are facing the same problem—how to do more with less. Many healthcare organizations are solving this problem by tasking existing people with more responsibilities, a decision that puts their staff at an increased risk of burnout.

November 12th, 2021

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Dedicated to the Work of Health and Healing at Sanford Health

The automation is really encouraging. We are especially excited about the reporting capabilities. We no longer have to build Excel spreadsheets and manually filter things out or change things. We leverage the out-of-the-box reports.

November 11th, 2021

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What is healthcare analytics in data reporting?

Healthcare analytics can drive the kinds of change that can lead to a safe, efficient and reliable organization by helping leaders to better understand how to harness the power of your organization’s data.

November 9th, 2021

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Ambulatory Surgery Centers – The Challenges

Despite the vigor of the Ambulatory Surgery Center market, this care sector is facing some significant challenges in the years ahead, like much of the rest of healthcare. Some of the challenges are discussed briefly here.

November 4th, 2021

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Addressing Healthcare Disparities to Achieve Health Equity

On a universal level, every action, procedure, or decision involved in healthcare should optimize the possible outcomes that can be achieved as a result of care.

November 3rd, 2021

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nThrive Opens the Door to 100% CCS Certification Levels

A large healthcare system located in Florida was opening a new facility and needed a way to address gaps in training for its coding staff.

November 2nd, 2021

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Legal and Compliance Issues in Healthcare 2021

The pandemic has complicated some legal and compliance issues and also created new ones. HealthStream can work with your organization to address legal and compliance issues in healthcare.

November 2nd, 2021

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