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Prioritizing Health System Transformation: A Strategy for Clinical and Financial Success

EvidenceCare

Hancock explains Sentara’s forward-thinking model for innovation and cross-functional collaboration, offering actionable strategies that can help you improve innovation at your own facility. By doing that, we have to partner with our clinical teams and our financial teams and a variety of different teams across the organization.

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Prevent Medical Errors with Mistake-Proofing Principles

Mobius MD

A landmark study from Johns Hopkins identified medical errors as the third leading cause of death in the United States, with an estimated 250,000 deaths annually attributed to preventable mistakes. As you read, ask yourself, What small steps could my organization take to implement these ideas?

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Barbara Bosah

Minority Nurse

Barbara Bosah, MS, RN, PCCN, is a highly skilled nurse manager in the thoracic and surgical intermediate care unit and vascular progressive care unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), downtown campus in Baltimore, MD. Our unit specializes in providing care for some of the sickest patients within the Maryland region.

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What Is Lateral Violence in Nursing?

Relias

While individual acts of lateral violence can appear relatively harmless, they create a toxic environment that takes a toll on employees’ morale, hindering the success of the healthcare institutions for which they work. Workplace bullying and lateral violence among nurses heighten tension within an already high-stress environment.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Cara Lunsford

Minority Nurse

The series highlights healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making transformational impacts in nursing. With my fellow nurses at Children ’ s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), we started the first Supportive Care Committee to ensure nurses had an environment available to help cope with job stress.

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Proactive vs. Reactive Healthcare: Deep Guide

Practice Builders

Development of Medicine Now, the United States has seen innovations such as electronic medical records, patient relationship management, the Affordable Care Act, and telemedicine that have improved the quality of Medical care. Vaccinations, regular check-ups, and medical examinations are essential for early problem detection.

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Language Barriers in Healthcare and 5 Strategies to Overcome Them

DropStat

Language barriers in healthcare prevent or hinder some healthcare stakeholders from reaching out for healthcare , and when they are in a healthcare setting, it may prevent the patient from understanding their healthcare situation and how to follow healthcare protocol. Can nurses perform their duties despite addressing language barriers?