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The Imperative for Providing Culturally Sensitive Nursing Care

Regardless of an individual’s cultural beliefs and practices, nurses have an inherent obligation to provide equal and ethical care to all patients.

April 01, 2021

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Ensuring Patient Safety – The Ultimate Survivor Game – Part 1

Strategies to assess competency and address gaps in knowledge with preceptors and education can be an effective means of improving patient safety.

April 01, 2021

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Exploring Nursing Education Curriculum Changes: Why, What, and Best Practices

Millennial college students have many strengths thanks to their tech awareness, but can come up short in other areas Smart educators will assess their own programs to see where they can help bridge those gaps.

April 01, 2021

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Improving Clinical Competency to Reduce OB Risk

Together, HealthStream and MedStar-SiTEL have developed and are delivering an OB Risk program that uses interactive learning to help ensure staff competency.

April 01, 2021

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Is Your Practice Prepared for MACRA?

Value-based purchasing is part of CMS’s quality strategy to reform how healthcare is delivered and paid for by the Medicare program. Once fully implemented, MIPS-eligible clinicians face a positive or negative 9% payment adjustment. For most practices that penalty structure will be unsustainable in the long run. That’s why it is critical for practices impacted by this program take steps now to prepare for 2017 reporting. If you haven’t done so already, we encourage you to talk with your HealthStream team to learn how we can help you satisfy MIPS reporting requirements.

April 01, 2021

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What Understanding Millennial Nursing Students Means For Education

Millennial college nursing students have many strengths thanks to their tech awareness, but like their peers can have challenges in other areas. To create effective nurses, smart educators will assess their own programs to see where they can help bridge those gaps.

April 01, 2021

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Engagement Is Key to More Effective Compliance Training: Four Guidelines

Whether it is live, taped, or computer-based, compliance training has to engaging and capture the attention of a workforce that seems to have a shorter attention span every year. Four suggestions to improve engagement.

April 01, 2021

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Four Challenges That Are Common in Healthcare Human Resources

In HealthStream’s PX Advisor, Elliot Clark, chairman and CEO of HRO Today, talks at length about four specific characteristics common to healthcare HR.

April 01, 2021

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What Steps Can Nursing Schools Take to Make Graduates More Successful?

Today’s nursing students are more tech-savvy but less interpersonally connected than their predecessors, and so nursing schools need to adapt in order to help them not just graduate, but also integrate into today’s healthcare community.

April 01, 2021

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The Challenges of Care Transitions and Best Practices Resources

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

April 01, 2021

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The Bedside Shift Report from the Patient’s Perspective

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).

April 01, 2021

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Secrets to Improving Healthcare Hiring

What are the HR strategies that will be most effective in hiring and retaining the best employees in healthcare?

April 01, 2021

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A Prediction for the Future of Post-Acute Care

We know from the research from interviewing thousands of people that they prefer to be aging at home in their communities. This means that we have this huge opportunity to deliver post-acute and non-acute services in new different ways to people in the community.

April 01, 2021

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Why Healthcare HR Must Evolve and Innovate

For HR professionals to be more than just employee advocates, Elliot says they need to be able to articulate why employee programs drive better business outcomes. “That’s the inspiration from the commercial world HR needs to get.”

April 01, 2021

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Taking the Pulse of Provider Credentialing: Where is the Industry Focusing?

VerityStream surveyed the NAMSS membership, 5,800 medical services professionals, about the importance of four key initiatives and to indicate their level of success in addressing various activities within each initiative.

April 01, 2021

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Turnover in Skilled Nursing Facilities – Impact and Solutions

Not much attention has been paid to the effects of poor retention of skilled nursing staff. However, the literature supports the importance of retaining them.

April 01, 2021

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The Business Case for Focusing on Hospital and Healthcare Recruitment

Is there a link between human resources and hospital and health system business outcomes? In the current issue of HealthStream’s PX Advisor, Elliot Clark, chairman and CEO of HRO Today says yes, and he has the research to support it.

April 01, 2021

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Three Keys to Success for the Future of Non-Acute Care: Podcast

We asked QEC Partners President Vickie Harris about the key to future success for non-acute care providers given the vast array of changes that are coming their way. She responded in our podcast that they need to focus on collaboration, specialization, and quality.

April 01, 2021

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Growth in Outpatient Care and Observation Status Challenge Healthcare Forecasting

Shifts in volume from inpatient to outpatient care are becoming an even bigger obstacle to the CFO’s ability to build forecasts. Also challenging hospitals is the rise in patients who do not meet admission criteria, but are placed in hospital beds in an observation status.

April 01, 2021

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Use Internships to Promote Healthcare Compliance Career Choices: Guidelines

It is important to encourage young professionals to pursue a career in the growing area of healthcare compliance. Here are some guidelines for successful compliance internship programs.

April 01, 2021