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Utilize Malnutrition Awareness Week To Assess Community & Patient Engagement Strategies

Malnutrition Awareness Week is the perfect time for providers to assess when, and how, they probe a patients’ ability to obtain nutritious food, as well as explore community resources to help fill that need if necessary.

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Improving Clinical Quality Outcomes Across The Care Continuum

The environment for healthcare delivery continues to change in the U.S., and these evolutions cause us to continually update the focus we place on quality improvement and patient safety. As things change in the industry, we must continue to add new safeguards that reflect the new environment.

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2019 Annual Report on Managing Conflicts of Interest

In today’s healthcare landscape, the assurance of a conflict-free environment has never been more important; therefore, organizations need to take the appropriate steps and action to achieve this environment. In this white paper, HealthStream, surveyed 281 healthcare compliance leaders throughout the U.S. to learn more about the compliance programs in their hospitals. HealthStream wanted to discover how well Conflicts of Interest were being monitored and uncover any gaps in the process. Download the whitepaper to learn more.

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What Are the Levels of Hospice Care?

Patients in hospice care may need differing hospice levels of care, as the impact of disease progresses or their health condition worsens. Every type of hospice care is appropriate when an illness is not responding to medical attempts to cure it or to slow the disease's progress.

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5 Ways Compensation Planning Can Improve Employee Retention

For most healthcare organizations, their greatest expense—and greatest differentiator—is their employees. In this paper, we look at the role compensation can play in supporting employee retention and suggest ways healthcare organizations can use a strong compensation strategy to reduce employee turnover.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Critical Thinking Development in Healthcare

AI has the potential to help healthcare really understand their clinicians’ critical thinking ability. In the article from which this post is taken, HealthStream’s Associate VP for Clinical Staff Development, Christie Kerwan, spoke about what AI tools offer for clinical development.

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Palliative Care Vs. Hospice Care—How They Differ

Palliative care and hospice care are often mentioned together, which can lead to confusion about what each one entails. Lack of knowledge, especially about palliative care, may hamper the many benefits of these services for those who most need them.

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A Nine Step Process for Standardizing Privileges in a Health System

There are many reasons to standardize privileges across all medical staffs—improved program management, compliance, alignment with contemporary clinical practice, and to manage clinical competence. Here’s how a typical project to standardize privileges may proceed successfully.

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The Essentials for an Effective Onboarding Program for New Nurses

Assessing and developing nurses for the ability to think critically has never been more important. This article and excerpt focus on education focused on critical thinking and its interplay with learning and assessment technology.

April 1st, 2021

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Celebrate Revenue Integrity Week with New Strategies to Boost Revenue Cycle Integrity and Performance

Join HealthStream and our partner nThrive in celebrating Revenue Integrity Week by incorporating these seven new strategies to boost revenue cycle integrity and performance in healthcare.

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Developing Critical Thinking Skills: The Key to an Effective Onboarding Program for New Nurses

Healthcare organizations must work quickly & efficiently to fight shortages & ensure staff is equipped to provide quality patient care. This article outlines the ways to assess & develop nurses for the ability to think critically.

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Why Employees Leave Healthcare Jobs for Better Work-Life Balance

Healthcare jobs can make the flexibility demands of a modern life too difficult to manage, unless they are paying attention to unhappy employees and giving them some options to adjust such components as schedules, travel demands, and commute issues.

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How To Create & Manage A Comprehensive Coding Audit

A comprehensive coding audit requires thoughtful preparation, including identifying its goals and scope, in order to achieve the desired results.

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When Poor Management is the Reason a Healthcare Employee Leaves

To have an impact on healthcare turnover, organizations should ensure that their managers are doing a good job and treating their direct reports fairly. In many cases, it’s true that people don’t leave companies as often as they leave managers.

April 1st, 2021

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Think About Accountability to Improve Healthcare Employee Engagement

Creating a culture where employees own their own accountability can create higher levels of engagement and satisfaction.

April 1st, 2021

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Innovation to Enhance Clinical Development: Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, and Personalization

Artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and personalization have promise for creating a new environment and greater success for healthcare workforce development. We envision a future where technology facilitates targeted development and helps clinicians reach their highest potential.

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Use National LGBT Health Awareness Week To Address Disparities In Care

National LGBT Health Awareness Week is the ideal time to review policies and procedures in place—as well as appropriate training—for treating this large, diverse, and at-risk community with compassion and respect.

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Hot Topics in Healthcare Compliance

At Health Care Compliance Association’s (HCCA) 4th Annual Enforcement Conference, attendees were treated to a variety of hot topics from experts in the field. Topics included new developments with the False Claims Act, Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks, the changing regulatory landscape relating to opioids, and the anatomy of a corporate integrity agreement.

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Healthcare HR Week Salutes the Important Work of Healthcare Human Resources Professionals

Healthcare HR Professionals Week has arrived, and that means it’s a great time to look at how HR supports every aspect of the HR workplace — and discover ways to help these hardworking professionals deliver comprehensive, successful solutions for workplace training and development.

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13 Smart Things Every Medical Staff Services Professional Should Know

How well we react to the changes in our worklife is an indicator of how effective we will be in our profession. Here are 13 smart things that every medical staff professional should know.

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