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The Opioid Crisis: A U.S. Problem and the Response of Clinicians and CMS

If the amount of opioids prescribed per year were averaged out over each person living in the U.S., everyone would get about a two-week supply. What should clinicians and CMS do?

April 01, 2021

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Effective Training for Millennials May Require Recognition of Generational Differences

As you focus on the workforce training and education needs of Millennials, make sure you don’t leave out other employees whose contributions are equally valuable. Every employee benefits from training tailored to his or her learning preference.

April 01, 2021

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For Nurses Violence Is a Significant Workplace Concern

How can we protect nurses? A frequent answer is simply safety in numbers through adequate staffing, but thoughtful design of the patient care environment is also a key to prevention.

April 01, 2021

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Resuscitation Best Practices for Staff with Arthritis or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Here are six of our most common resuscitation practice and certification tips for staff members who are challenged by arthritis in their hands or wrists, or are afflicted with carpal tunnel syndrome.

April 01, 2021

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Three Guidelines for Optimizing Healthcare Compensation

A commonly missed opportunity in healthcare is to create a compensation strategy that is a step ahead. Knowing what you need to pay, what not to pay, and how to pay can save healthcare organizations huge amounts of time and money.

April 01, 2021

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Six Ways Nursing Roles and Expectations Are Changing

More importantly, just increasing the number of nurses isn’t going to be a solution. Healthcare is changing, and we are going to need nurses who can play different roles and have different skillsets.

April 01, 2021

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Five Key Findings about Privacy and Security Awareness in the Healthcare Industry

Hospitals and other healthcare organizations have proven nearly irresistible to cybercriminals in recent years. A deeper understanding of the average healthcare employee’s knowledge of cybersecurity and data privacy best practices is warranted.

April 01, 2021

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Empowering Healthcare Providers to Identify Victims of Human Trafficking

Healthcare providers have a crucial role in victim identification and support because they are in a unique position to recognize problems that may not be obvious at first glance.

April 01, 2021

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Ten Trends Redefining Healthcare in 2018

The healthcare industry is in a time of great uncertainty and innovation. This article breaks down ten trends that are redefining healthcare, including artificial intelligence, finances, and nurse recruitment.

April 01, 2021

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Patient Safety Best Practices: Using Socio-cultural Norms to Support the Principles of High Reliability Organizations

HealthStream asked Melinda Sawyer, DrPH, MSN, RN, CNS-BC, the Director of Patient Safety and Education for the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality for her insight on how healthcare can achieve high reliability. She responded with two best practices.

April 01, 2021

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Best Practice: Establish Staff Advisory Councils to Elevate Healthcare Workforce Education

Creating councils or work groups for employees is an excellent way to get buy-in for workforce development.

April 01, 2021

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The U.S. Opioid Crisis: How Bad Is It?

The scientific literature perspective that opioids produced low rates of addiction and were relatively safe has fueled the problem. The tendency to prescribe opioids alongside aggressive marketing approaches has proven to accelerate our nation’s dependency on opioids.

April 01, 2021

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Nine Best Practices: Strengthening Employee Alignment Through Total Rewards Communication

A total rewards communication plan that effectively conveys the many ways in which you reward employees, beyond base salary alone, should be a key component across talent management efforts. Let’s take a look at nine best practices for a successful Total Rewards communication program.

April 01, 2021

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Best Practices for Combating Physician Burnout

When these four steps are fully implemented, they will prevent physician burnout, normalize the discussion around stress and burnout, and build a culture of engagement and support across the physicians and staff.

April 01, 2021

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The Disastrous Effect of Bullying on Nurse Retention

For years, polls have shown that Americans view nurses as having the highest honesty and ethical standards of all professions—not only among healthcare professions, such as doctors, pharmacists, and dentists—but all major professions. Given this overwhelming admiration for nurses, why don’t more people gravitate toward the calling? Why do we continue to see nurses leaving the profession in growing numbers?

April 01, 2021

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Success Has Many Meanings for Healthcare Workforce-Training

What does success mean when it comes to healthcare workforce education and training? There’s no one answer.

April 01, 2021

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Rapid Mobilization Was Key to Successful Emergency Care after the Las Vegas Shooting

Around 120 ambulances per day pull up to Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Las Vegas, NV. But even the busiest facility in Nevada couldn’t be fully prepared for what was coming, says Dr. Scherr.

April 01, 2021

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The Impact of High Stress and Burnout on Nursing

98% of nurses in the U.S. say their work is physically and mentally exhausting, and 90% have considered leaving their jobs to find something offering better work-life balance.

April 01, 2021

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Education and Training Are Vital to Address Medical Coder Staffing Issues

The medical-coding staffing crisis has many causes, and so will require a multifaceted effort to create solutions around the immediate needs as well as preventing future problems.

April 01, 2021

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The Changing Role of Instructors as Healthcare Learning is Transformed

Interactive learning changes the role of the instructor. Instead of preparing and delivering a traditional lecture, the instructor facilitates and enhances learning by engaging in collaborative classroom work with a focus on mastery and application of concepts.

April 01, 2021