As medicine evolves, new types of doctors and nurses are emerging to meet our system’s changing needs. In some cases, these clinicians are in new specialties that didn’t exist until recently, and demand for some of these physicians is already high.
The Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System is a five-hospital system in Louisiana with five employed medical groups and a clinically integrated network. Here are six best practices to guide an effort to centralize credentialing across a multi-facility system.
Skilled nursing, post-acute care, non-acute care, home health, rehab, care continuum, continuum of care, hospice, healthcare human resources
To better protect workers from hazardous chemicals, the U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA has revised its Hazard Communication Standard to align with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). While the original Hazard Communication Standard, HCS 1983, was commonly referred to as the “Employee Right to Know,” the revised standard now provides for the “Employee Right to Understand.”
Turnover and retention are a growing problem for organizations across the continuum of care. Increased volume demands on our healthcare system mean that organizations cannot afford to waste time hiring the wrong people. Two of our partners, Assess Systems and NurseCompetency, help care organizations improve their hiring processes and identify and assess better potential candidates.
HCCS has helped us propel our compliance training and other online education programs into the 21st century,” Kay says. “I’ve seen enough of the other courses to know that if you do compliance training online, HCCS does it better than anyone else.”
Leader rounds should not be done merely as a way to follow protocol; they should be done with a purpose. Leaders should perform rounds to collect actionable information from patients and staff and to promote a “people-centered” culture across the organization.
Nurse residency programs present both opportunities and challenges for new nurses, and so should be studied thoroughly to see if the program, and the provider, is the right fit. This blog post focuses on nurse residency program pros and cons.
Care transitions from hospital stays to home or other care facilities increase the risk of healthcare mishaps, serious issues, and even adverse events. Here are some ways to avoid potential miscommunication and the ill impacts it can have.
While much of healthcare is in flux, the importance of helping patients to understand their financial responsibilities remains constant. Effective communication strategies and processes remain the best way to optimize revenue cycle and collections.
Whereas purposeful rounding was a mechanical process in its early days, typically relying on rigid requirements and a strict set of questions, nurses have recently become more practical and flexible in achieving it, leading to a potential for greater success and better outcomes.
Teaching a clinical judgment competency for nursing students and new nurses is far more effective if you use an overall process that is systematic and formalized. Caputi offers five useful steps to teach individual clinical judgment competencies
James Paturas details the four core elements required of a CMS Emergency Preparedness Program—risk assessment and planning, policies and procedures, communication plan, and training and testing.
Social media involves constantly changing security risks that hospitals need to be aware of, according to Tom Pendergast, Ph.D., Chief Strategist at MediaPRO, an e-learning development company.
A good peer interview nursing team will deploy a series of questions designed to learn about a candidate’s mental, emotional and physical state, helping them find the best fit for their unique situation.
A good nursing leader has the ability to positively influence others because they lead by example. The standards and expectations set for their staff are the same they have set for themselves.
Working with that first new hire taught me a lot about how to be an effective preceptor, ignited my passion for precepting, and inspired me to continuously work on improving my skills as a preceptor.
Patient safety is vitally important. Here are 10 safety facts and descriptions that highlight this importance from the World Health Organization.
To illustrate the difficulty that a typical healthcare provider may encounter when planning annual required training, we offer the example of just one role in a single state—a respiratory therapist in Tennessee.
This blog post, an article excerpt, defines Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and why they were established, as well as why compliance with them is important.
