The combination of an aging nursing population and not enough new nurses coming in to fill those roles plays a large part in today’s nursing shortage. With this nursing shortage there will come a shortage of nurse leaders.
On average, hospitals have 30% of all claims denied and an average of 35% of these denied claims are attributed to inaccurate patient identification or inaccurate/incomplete patient information.
If the amount of opioids prescribed per year were averaged out over each person living in the U.S., everyone would get about a two-week supply. What should clinicians and CMS do?
How can we protect nurses? A frequent answer is simply safety in numbers through adequate staffing, but thoughtful design of the patient care environment is also a key to prevention.
Many organizations fail at vertical and horizontal alignment of goals, leaving employees confused as to what is expected of them, resulting in a lack of engagement in organizational goals and lack of positive outcomes.
The move to outpatient dominance requires that leaders adopt a new mindset when thinking about how healthcare is delivered. Following are several trends that may help advance your thinking and inform decision-making in your organization.
While seeking to address the issue of healthcare staff turnover, it is imperative to identify exactly the factors contributing to this phenomenon. Various qualitative studies worldwide have surveyed some common reasons for staff turnover in hospitals.
As hospitals take on more at-risk contracts in the value-based payment era, it is increasingly important that financial officers understand HCC capture and how the health status of contracted populations is calculated. Appropriately documenting and coding a patient’s full illness burden is essential to the financial health of hospitals.
In this eBook we consider some of the potential threats facing healthcare organizations and learn from leaders who have first-hand experience in surmounting these challenges.
While there is no simple answer or one-size-fits-all solution for improving ED operations and flow, here are some proven principles to consider to enhance efficiency and reduce overall turnaround times.
Strengthening EFM competency is vital for improving obstetrics care quality and reducing risk. The EFM Series’ data analytics allows clinical leaders to leverage HealthStream’s control center technology to determine learning performance and identify risk or need for remediation.
Regardless of an individual’s cultural beliefs and practices, nurses have an inherent obligation to provide equal and ethical care to all patients.
Technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence have until recently only been associated with gaming and other types of entertainment, but their influence in healthcare is rapidly gaining traction.
We know that every team member in our health systems is mission critical in providing patient-centered excellence. Ensuring that every team member who wears an employment badge is competent (and ultimately confident) is the ultimate responsibility healthcare leaders face. Use goal management to clearly outline competencies, and achieve organizational objectives.
A number of research studies have illustrated processes and activities that hospitals can undertake to lower readmissions, including better discharge processes and better coordination of care with post-acute facilities and primary care doctors
A positive transformation occurs in patient’s perception of their care when touch is added to a task. That is certainly true with the Bedside Shift Report (BSSR).
The orientation towards lifelong learning may be one of the most important competencies healthcare staff must possess for future success, and it will be up to employers to harness and engage new generations in untold and different ways.
In order to maintain their reputations for integrity and impartiality, medical associations for all kinds of specialties have to be vigilant about avoiding and identifying conflicts of interest among their members.
It has never been more important for your Human Resources Department to know the business and to step up as an integral component to the success of your healthcare organization. HR leadership must be able to validate their value and be able to speak in quantitative, objective terms.
Hospitals have been granting clinical privileges for approximately 40-50 years, but for much of that time period, privileging systems have not addressed current clinical competency in any meaningful way. In recent years this has been changing, by necessity.
