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Post-Acute Care Training Promotes Employees as an Asset

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It is probably no surprise to you that your post-acute care (PAC) organization’s biggest asset is its employees. Those topics are related to frequent and significant changes in reimbursement, the rising complexity of care required for higher acuity levels, and partnership strategies with acute care providers.

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Future-Proof Your Workforce: Post-Acute Care Reskilling and Upskilling

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The speed of change in healthcare requires post-acute care organizations to take a different approach to job preparedness. Leaders in assisted living, skilled nursing, home health, rehab therapy, wound care, and hospice know you can’t hire all the skills your organization will need tomorrow and in the future.

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10 Top Reasons to Pursue Your MSN

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For example, if you become a nurse practitioner, you can specialize in family medicine, adult gerontology, pediatrics acute care, psychiatric-mental health, etc. You can also specialize in anesthesia as a CRNA, as well as education or leadership.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Aneesah Coates

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Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. As a nurse, I have worked in an acute care setting caring for lung transplant patients.

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Staff Development Vital for Adapting to Shifting Rehab Therapy Needs

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As a post-acute care leader, you must ensure that your staff is competent and flexible enough to meet these changes head on. And we have to be able to address those needs and deliver care where our patients are.”. As Shubert points out, the variety of care that patients demand continues to vary and shift.

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How To Become a Nurse Leader

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Nurses who have practiced for several years, gained solid experience in one or more care settings, improved their skills through continued education, and mentored other nurses are leaders — even if they do not have a job title specifically designated as a leadership role. But how do they take that step? What is a nurse leader?

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Meet Nancy Colobong Smith, American Nephrology Nurses Association’s President-Elect 2023-24

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After being an assistant manager for several years, I realized that the parts of my role I enjoyed most were providing education, mentoring, clinical care, and improving systems.