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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

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By incorporating care coordination practices such as risk assessment, care planning, care transitions, patient education, patient navigation, telehealth, and home visits, care coordination teams can bring in resources to help patients navigate health concerns that span physical, behavioral, and social risk factors and needs.

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Promoting Patient Engagement in Rehab Therapy: Strategies That Work

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Work with your patients to set attainable benchmarks that lead them to their larger goals. If your patient wants greater stamina, for example, you might use a six-minute walk test. This test can also help patients understand how well they are performing compared with their peers. Educate and Empower Your Patients.

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Native Americans and Opioid Addiction: Understanding the Problem

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Tactics included providing sterile syringes and pipes, distributing the overdose-reversal medication naloxone, and encouraging the use of test strips to detect potentially lethal fentanyl or xylazine (“tranq”). By focusing foremost on reducing harm rather than just restricting use, it made strides in lowering overdose-related deaths.

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Virtual Nurse Jobs and Telehealth: Help More People in More Places

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Virtual nursing is focused on the role, scope, and practice of nurses, who perform tasks such as triage, assessment, care coordination, medication management, chronic disease management, and patient education. These individuals can work for primary care practices, specialty clinics, urgent care centers, or telehealth companies.