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The Millennials Have Arrived, Especially in Healthcare!

The 73 million millennials in the U.S are part of a larger group that now makes up a quarter of the global population. This cohort, born between 1981 and 1996, already became the largest generation in the healthcare workforce in 2016.

April 01, 2021

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Nursing on the Frontlines: How the Covid-19 Crisis Is Changing Standard Hospital Procedures

During the Covid-19 pandemic, my fellow infection preventionists (IPs) and I have still been rounding the hospital, observing infection control practices, and providing education; however, the degree to which we are performing these tasks has expanded greatly.

April 01, 2021

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5 Guidelines for Creating Healthcare Management Competencies

Here are 5 guidelines for creating an overarching set of healthcare management competencies for all clinicians to establish organizational thresholds for competency.

April 01, 2021

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Caring for Maternal Addicts Without Using a Withdrawal Program

There is a very important layer of complexity to not use a withdrawal program while caring for mothers who are addicted to pain pills and opioids while pregnant.

April 01, 2021

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How to Ensure Healthcare Data Security

Health IT Security just released the following five ways that healthcare organizations can safeguard protected health information (PHI) by instituting up-to-date cybersecurity measures.

April 01, 2021

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Importance of Anticipated U.S. Demographic Shifts in Healthcare

The importance of the anticipated U.S. demographic shifts in healthcare concerning aging of our population will only keep accelerating with rising expenditures.

April 01, 2021

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AI Advances Aggressive Healthcare & Helps Meet Providers Goals

AI is revolutionizing the way aggressive healthcare is delivered, and wise providers are looking at ways to improve operations in order to meet their goals.

April 01, 2021

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Preventing Nurse Burnout – Five Strategies

HealthStream discusses being vigilant about identifying symptoms of and preventing burnout by providing interventions to help nurses and healthcare organizations.

April 01, 2021

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Clinician Shortages Will Be a Growing Problem in Healthcare

The existing shortage of nurses and physicians will continue and become an even larger problem across many areas of healthcare during the coming decade.

April 01, 2021

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Does Your Competency Program Have the Whole Staff Comfortable with Expectations?

To align with new CMS regulations, long-term facility competency programs should tie into assessments and also should engage the entire staff in their creation and ongoing updates.

April 01, 2021

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Embrace an Overarching Set of Five Competencies for All Clinicians

As early as 2003, the Institute of Medicine identified five competencies designed to help organizations thrive in the current healthcare environment. They remain very relevant today.

April 01, 2021

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How to Make Scheduling Work Better for Nurse Managers

In addition to requiring a great deal of time and attention from nurse managers, inefficient scheduling processes can seriously impact nurses’ work environment and satisfaction. It is possible for healthcare organizations to adopt solutions that make the scheduling process work better for nurse managers.

April 01, 2021

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How Are Millennials Experiencing Healthcare and Affecting Its Future?

Health-focused Millennials are demanding changes in healthcare, from how and where they receive care to what “good health” really means. They will continue to have a big impact on an industry that desperately needs to change.

April 01, 2021

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Strong Trends Affecting the Healthcare Industry and Its Providers

A growing trend visible across healthcare is the effort to customize workforce development to specific needs and to learners. Concurrent challenges include growing financial pressures and the U.S. demographics. Here are a few ways that these trends will manifest themselves.

April 01, 2021

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Behavioral Healthcare Is an Important Part of Effective Care for Addicted Mothers

The training discussed how to interact effectively with this at-risk patient population, as well as heightening the awareness of the issues these pregnant women faced as active addicts who also might be battling mental health issues, homelessness, and a roster of other issues.

April 01, 2021

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Engaging At-Risk Opioid Addicted Mothers Through Prenatal Care, Delivery, and Beyond

Breaking free from opioid addiction is a difficult and multifaceted challenge. For many women who are addicted, the process is made even more complex by pregnancy. That’s where the Giving Respect and Compassion to Expecting Moms, or G.R.A.C.E., program steps in.

April 01, 2021

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How to Improve Nurse Scheduling

To improve and sustain better clinical and business outcomes, healthcare organizations must improve their solutions for nurse scheduling. Here are some of the features an optimal nurse scheduling solution should have.

April 01, 2021

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Improving Nurse Retention in 2020 and Beyond

The Need to focus on Nurse Retention will only increase as our country’s aging population demands more healthcare. Here are some strategies for improving nurse retention in 2020 and beyond.

April 01, 2021

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Better Long-Term Direct Care Administrators' Competency Program

Full staff buy-in is vital for a long-term direct care provider’s competency program to not only be fully functional, but also as effective as it must be.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Staff Competency Challenges and How to Solve Them

Regardless of the category of the healthcare competency being evaluated, and difficulty doing so, there should be an appropriate tool for accurately documenting performance. There should also be the repository for action and necessary education plans, along with their completion and re-evaluation dates.

April 01, 2021