A preceptorship is a challenging role even for the experienced staff nurse. It is important to keep in mind that precepting requires a different set of skills that may or may not automatically be possessed by the preceptor.
What do MSPs have to say about what it takes to be a successful leader? Here is Part 2 of advice to medical staff leaders gathered during 30 years of work with healthcare organizations.
What do MSPs have to say about what it takes to be a successful leader? Here is Part 1 of advice to medical staff leaders gathered during 30 years of work with healthcare organizations.
One of the best ways a hospital can prepare new nurses for the rigors of their job and encourage their retention is by offering an advanced onboarding process that is anchored by a nurse preceptorship program.
A successful preceptorship program offers a supportive environment in which nurses of all skill levels can become clinically competent and emotionally adjusted over a condensed time period. Here are three benefits of adopting such a program.
Timely Provider Privileging Information Is Important for Avoiding Scheduling and Audit Mishaps.
We’ve created this eBook filled with articles and best practices from thought leaders in the industry to help compliance officers navigate the ever-changing healthcare universe.
When managers receive a harassment complaint, how they respond is critical for avoiding even more difficult situations. In a recent webinar, business and employment law attorney Jennifer Kearns had advice for managers about how to respond to a harassment complaint.
Healthcare organizations benefit when their performance management systems align with organizational goals. Our recent Webinar discussed the payoff in terms of accountability, employee satisfaction, employee engagement, etc.
Compensation is key to achieving critical business outcomes: engagement, retention, and increased performance. It pays to have more frequent conversations around compensation, as well as actual compensation increase that occurs outside the annual review process.
Patient access is the gateway not only to your system but also to your revenue cycle; the importance of our colleagues who are sitting at the front desks, who are taking scheduling calls, increases exponentially.
Healthcare organizations understand that they need to evaluate competency, the demonstration of appropriate knowledge, skills, and behaviors in a clinical setting. Competency Programs involve validating the multiple facets of any identified, required competency.
In a recent HealthStream webinar, How to Banish the Bully Who Wreaks Havoc in Healthcare, Linda Leekley, CEO and founder of In the Know, offers ten ways to embrace civility at work, including her secret weapon phrase, ‘Up until now.’
In a recent HealthStream webinar, How to Banish the Bully Who Wreaks Havoc in Healthcare, Linda Leekley, CEO and founder of In the Know, points out numerous benefits of workplace civility training for healthcare organizations—for patients and the organizations themselves.
In the fall of 2017, a number of our nation’s leading health systems dealt with natural disasters or mass casualty events one right after the other. In this eBook, HealthStream focuses on first-hand accounts from the local emergency department Medical Directors in Southeast Florida, Houston, and Las Vegas. Learn more about the tremendous stories of healthcare leaders rising to the occasion and heroes working around-the-clock to care for multitudes of patients.
Compliance with government regulations and ethical concerns demand that healthcare institutions and researchers diligently disclose every conflict of interest (COI). Organizations must take steps develop a management and mitigation plan that prevents biased medical decision-making.
Nurse residency programs offer a much-needed opportunity for new nurses to transition to roles in specialized areas. To be accredited demonstrates innovation or exemplary practice.
Developing caregivers to provide high-quality CPR should include regular training and measurement-based feedback. One training solution may be to adopt a NASCAR style approach—training the team to perform like a pit crew.
In this eBook, we will reveal the trends that will impact healthcare across care settings, arming you with information to strategically navigate change with success.
