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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

It’s also an enormous stress test of the [health care] system. And with any stress test, you see where the limits are in what you have been building to-date,” he humbly confessed. The company pioneered a new disposable sensor to track vital signs that, as Roy described, “watches over you independent of a hospital bed.”

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Why You Should Become A Medical Assistant?

Bell-Brown Medical Institute

Good Salary Is Not A Problem Medical assistants are in high demand, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that this field will grow by 19% between 2019 and 2029. The median annual wage for medical assistants was $33,610 in May 2019, but those with more advanced degrees can earn salaries of $40,000 or more.

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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

Sepsis screening, for me, comes in many different flavors -- from EMR alerts based on lab and vital sign data to anyone being able to draw a lactate or call an RRT. Process measures suggested that doctors and nurses responded to the alerts with increased testing of lactate levels and fluid resuscitation. to 0.3%).

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Medical Assistant Training Program

MedAssistantEDU.org

As per the data, nearly 725,000 medical assistants were working in America in 2019. As per BLS, the highest paying state for medical assistants in 2019 were- Alaska: $45,630 Washington D.C.: They support the physicians and fulfil multiple roles to keep the healthcare facilities functional.

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SWAT RNs: Supporting Bedside Leaders with Clinical Judgment

Minority Nurse

Hence, the SWAT RN is a nursing role that is instrumental in the promotion of the nursing process and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s 2019 Clinical Judgment Measurement Model within the acute care setting, as they work collaboratively with bedside nurse leaders to facilitate positive patient outcomes.

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