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How to Become a Healthcare Compliance Officer
The career outlook for healthcare compliance careers is very promising. A few years ago, The Wall Street Journal labeled compliance officer the hottest job in America.
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What Are Some of the Typical Positions in Healthcare Compliance?
Compliance jobs exist across many industries, but job duties and responsibilities for them are remarkably similar, regardless of where you work. . Here some of the typical positions representative of a healthcare compliance program.
April 1st, 2021
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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.
April 1st, 2021
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Understanding the Primary Nursing Care Model
Explore the Primary Nursing Care Model. Understand its benefits, principles, and implementation to enhance patient care and nursing satisfaction.
April 1st, 2021
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Reducing Readmission Rates in Healthcare
Hospital readmissions affect staffing, revenue and care quality. But, readmission rates vary greatly by hospital and by state, providing us with an indication that we might have the opportunity to reduce rates by improving hospital processes. Learn more.
April 1st, 2021
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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.
April 1st, 2021
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3 Guidelines for Mentoring New Graduate Nurses
Learn how to be successful at mentoring nurses, one must refrain from providing too much assistance or too little in the effort, from HealthStream.
April 1st, 2021
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Improve Healthcare By Performance-Guided Learning
Learn how playing to employees’ strengths through performance-based learning, when properly implemented, can help achieve operational goals from HealthStream
April 1st, 2021
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Using Assessments and Training to Improve Conditions of Participation
Conditions of Participation are qualifications developed by CMS that healthcare organizations must meet in order to begin and continue participating in federally funded healthcare programs (Medicare, Medicaid, CHIPS, etc.) This article examines new ways healthcare organizations can use assessments and training to ensure staff understand and are adhering to policies that support compliance.
April 1st, 2021
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Millennial, Gen X, & Baby Boomers, How do Their Work Ethics Differ
Understand the variance in work ethics, approach to authority, and collaboration among Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials in healthcare.
April 1st, 2021
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Introducing Jane — The First Digital Nurse Advisor
HealthStream has introduced the Jane™, the first-ever AI-based competency assessment solution using a conversational format, to help quickly and accurately onboard both new and experienced nurses.
April 1st, 2021
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Home or Facility? The Pros and Cons of In-Home Medical Care
There is no “one size fits all’ option for deciding who can receive in-home health care vs. moving to a care facility, but by exploring specific needs, costs and local option, a plan of action can be created.
April 1st, 2021
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Home Health Care vs. Hospital Care
The move toward value-based care may have us seeing home health care as a treatment option with even more benefits for patients and outcomes. Cost, clinical results and patient comfort may support providing higher levels of care at home.
April 1st, 2021
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Use Feedback to Improve Engagement in the Healthcare Workplace
Millennials make up the largest generation working in healthcare, and their numbers and predominance will only continue to grow. That’s why it is important for healthcare managers to learn how to make regular communication about performance work, specifically for millennials.
April 1st, 2021
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Validating the Jane Competency System AI Critical Thinking Assessments
This blog post describes HealthStream’s study to assess the validity of the Jane™ competency system’s AI critical thinking assessments as an evaluative tool in scoring responses of RNs in situations where critical judgment is required.
April 1st, 2021
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Performance Measurement To Improve Patient Access Management
Learn why patient access managers and operations should be measured on KPIs to monitor quality, process, financial, and customer service, from HealthStream.
April 1st, 2021
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What a New Nurse Can Expect in the First Month on the Job
A new nurse’s first month on the job can be exciting and perilous, so it’s important that they, and their new employer, take a deliberate approach to those crucial early days of onboarding.
April 1st, 2021
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11 Clinical Privileging Best Practices
Peruse our review of best practices related to defining and formatting clinical privileges from AI to mentoring in internal medicine, from HealthStream.
April 1st, 2021
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Recognizing Religious Beliefs in Healthcare
Given the wide range of religion practices across our national population, it is no wonder that healthcare providers and systems are often challenged by delivering care that meets and honors the religious needs of patients and their families.
April 1st, 2021
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How Lorien Health Systems Implemented Quality Manager
Implementing Quality Manager helped Lorien Health Services gain a new patient-centered perspective on listening to residents and empowering them to make their own care decisions. Lorien ultimately transformed the organization’s approach to customer service across the multi-facility senior care services company.