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Meet Infusion Nurse Danielle Jenkins

Minority Nurse

Their standards have been instrumental in shaping my policies and procedures, ensuring best practices in infusion nursing. I often say that in an outpatient setting an infusion nurse operates in five areas of nursing serving as an admissions nurse , case manager, infusion nurse, charge nurse, and discharge nurse.

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Preparing for CERT Audits and Practicing Compliant Documentation

EvidenceCare

A compliance measure calculates the percentage of patients discharged in the appropriate inpatient or observation bed status—a determinant that can result in major financial repercussions if misclassified. The goal for the compliance measure is to have over 95% of discharges compliant.

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Why Financial Incentives Oppose Quality Improvement Projects in Healthcare

The Healthcare Blog

Improving the time from a hospital discharge order being placed to getting the patient out the door: A hospital (I think it was UCLA) has been working on identifying and eliminating the things that delay getting patients out the door after they’ve been discharged.

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Vanderbilt Nursing Professor Receives $3.6M to Study Telemedicine and Post-intensive Care Syndrome Recovery

Minority Nurse

The Vanderbilt-led study will build on the burgeoning national effort to unite ICU clinicians and primary care providers in providing comprehensive care for patients starting when they are discharged from the ICU and continuing through transitional outpatient care.

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How to Use Net Promoter Score (NPS) in Healthcare

Relias

For example, one department might have a higher NPS than another, offering an opportunity to share best practices across the organization. Best practices to increase response rates and improve your NPS Here are some best practices to improve patient engagement and boost your net promoter score in healthcare: 1.

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Mental Health Crisis in Miscarriage–an Unrepresented Patient Population

The Healthcare Blog

I handed them the same box of single ply tissues I was now sobbing into, as I handed them a pen to sign their discharge paperwork. Two weeks after my emergency room discharge, I continued to live life as if nothing happened, returning to work without any healthcare follow-up to address my emotional burden. Where do we gain funding?

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Hospital Mobile App Development 101

Arkenea

By integrating generative AI, hospitals can automate routine tasks such as appointment scheduling, patient triage, and discharge instructions, freeing up valuable staff time. Generative AI in Hospital App Development In hospital app development, generative AI is playing a pivotal role in optimizing operations and improving patient care.