Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

A 76-year-old woman presents to a community hospital after waking with garbled speech and right-sided weakness. Case 1: Excess An elderly woman is admitted to a community hospital with a minor stroke. The hospital does an excellent job. By the time she leaves the hospital, she has no residual symptoms. I love my job.

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Follow-Up Tests Discharges Hospital 89

EvidenceCare

JUNE 11, 2024

In our efforts to empower hospital clinicians to provide better care by having real-time transparency to cost and benchmark utilization data, we’ve learned that one of the core code systems that defines modern hospital resource management – Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) – is misunderstood or even unknown.

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Hospital Discharges Documentation Admissions 130

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

When I was 17, I got my first job in healthcare as a patient transporter, and then I worked my way up. Then I also worked as a patient care tech in the neuro ICU during nursing school. I worked at two of the large systems there in critical care on a liver transplant ICU floor. I’ve gone all over.

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Sterilization Patient Care Tech Discharges Certification 98

Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

Virtual nurses may work from behind computer screens, but their impact is felt throughout healthcare as their expertise is increasingly integrated into patient care and nursing workflows. They now support clinical teams throughout the patient care continuum to help ease the overwhelming demands and address serious healthcare issues.

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Admissions Discharges Collaboration Transfers 59

Accepted Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

For example, is it a Level 1 trauma hospital? If you say, for example, that you “had to change sheets on hospital beds,” it sounds like you didn’t want to, or that you didn’t enjoy or see the value in the task! So, briefly introduce the organization or company. Describe its location, mission, type, and any other relevant details.

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Admissions Customer Service Discharges Tests 40

Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It is especially important for patients with complex or chronic conditions, multiple comorbidities, or transitions of care. ” The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) recognizes care coordination as a core competency for nurses and offers a certification for care coordination and transition management.

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Care Plan Patient Satisfaction Acute Care Collaboration 52

Sensible Medicine

JULY 19, 2023

Never hesitate to return to a patient’s room for more information or to change your plans if you have new ideas 6. Patient care is hard, and people will ask more of you than you can ever give – be strong, resilient, and take care of yourself​ 7. Ask yourself, Why did this patient get admitted?

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Admissions Diagnostics Discharges Tests 58

Southern Careers Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They are skilled professionals who assist healthcare providers in delivering quality patient care. While they wear many hats, their primary goal is to ensure that medical practices run efficiently, and patients receive the care they need. So, let’s embark on this healthcare journey together.

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Medical Assistant Medication Outpatient Care Vital Signs 52

Ciox

JULY 20, 2023

Researchers Enhance Predictive Analytics with SDOH Data Big data in healthcare has the power to transform patient care and patient outcomes. Providers Optimize Value-Based Care Using SDOH Data Value-based care organizations face challenges in fully understanding their patient panel.

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Discharges HIPAA Admissions Medical Assistant 52

EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

This comprehensive guide provides hospital and revenue cycle leadership with vital insights on preparing for CERT audits and establishing processes for compliant documentation. Hospitals need to be aware of these state-specific rules as well. HIPAA regulations: Ensure patient privacy is protected throughout the documentation process.

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Documentation Admissions Discharges Billing 130

Relias

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Improving staff retention could pay off in terms of an increased capacity to deliver care. Depending on your location, reducing turnover by just 1% can save the average hospital $262,300 per year. Can you reassign any activities not directly related to serving patients to other individuals who could serve these functions?

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Unit Organization and Environment Acute Care Long Term Care Discharges 52

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

In the wake of the pandemic and growing consumer preferences, the hospital-to-home movement is gaining traction among health systems. Amidst bullish forecasts for the promise of hospital-to-home discharges, the ability for many patients to make this migration would be a difficult bridge to cross.

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Hospital Discharges Follow-Up Collaboration 93

Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

I developed bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized but thankfully not put on a ventilator. I spent five days in the hospital and was discharged home on oxygen. Most of what we do as a poison control nurse, we do not learn in school or even on-the-job in a hospital environment. Working in poison control is my passion.

Triage 52

Triage Follow-Up Problem Solving Skills Certification 52

Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Surveyors will look for structured and unstructured types of care coordination to assess how well the care team members communicate and collaborate to provide better patient care. This is the year of compliance with promised increased oversight of care quality and environment of care,” Richardson noted.

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Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Follow-Up Documentation 52

Guideway Care

APRIL 9, 2024

While the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is a significant tool in measuring patient satisfaction, it represents a single aspect of the overall patient experience. This is possible by integrating HCAHPS findings with broader patient experience information.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Discharges Outpatient Care 52

CareerStep

MAY 27, 2024

The pharmacy technician plays an important role in reducing patient waiting time by efficiently and correctly scanning or entering information into a patient database. Institutional, or hospital pharmacy, involves less public interaction. Dispensing medication to patients is the goal in both settings.

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Certification Hospital Huddles/Rounds Insurance 52

Arkenea

JUNE 27, 2024

Large and mid-sized hospitals may easily burden the expenses, but what about the small practices? Based on Design Settings Types of EMRs based on design settings are of two distinct types – ambulatory and acute care EMRs. Acute Care Acute care EMR software is largely used in hospitals and other inpatient care facilities.

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Acute Care EHR / EMR Documentation Hospital 52

Health Prime

JANUARY 10, 2024

These descriptors are an essential resource that hospitals, medical practices, health plans, and other CPT users can incorporate into English-language documents, such as insurance forms, price sheets, medical records, patient portals, and more.

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Discharges Admissions Medication Documentation 52

Accepted Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Phase 2: USMLE Step 3 Generally taken at the end of the internship year, Step 3 assesses your grasp of clinical concepts relevant to patient care. Through patient case scenarios, the exam tests your ability to formulate a diagnosis based on a patient’s history, their physical exam, and the associated lab findings.

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Medication Admissions Follow-Up Physical Exams 97

Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

I had collapsed into a heap on the cold, hospital floor, falling unconscious and suffering a seizure. I tried to make out the quivering outline of another hospital bed opposite me. Age 23, I went through another long eight weeks of my life confined to a hospital bed, all hope at loose end. For God’s sake , get UP !”

Admissions 52

Admissions Follow-Up Huddles/Rounds Hospital 52

Relias

JULY 14, 2022

Hospitals and health systems have targeted their approaches to these issues and others to help reduce complications through adherence to evidence-based clinical protocols and reducing variation in care. Lora Sparkman, MHA, RN, BSN, Partner, Patient Safety and Quality, Relias. A Personal Story of Maternal Mental Health.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Acute Care Discharges Insurance 52

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

In a multinational, open-label, randomized, parallel-group trial, patients aged 18–85 years, admitted to hospital with acute heart failure, were randomly assigned to either usual care or high-intensity care. High intensity care was the GDMT group. 1078 patients were randomized and the study was stopped early.

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Follow-Up Discharges Hospital Medication 107

Minority Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

Even the best nurses can’t operate in a silo–patient care takes a comprehensive and cohesive approach where nurses know what to do, know what everyone else does, and each nurse supports the rest of the team. The dangers of an ineffective team are many; the worst outcome is when it causes patient or nurse harm.

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Teamwork Interdisciplinary Team Communication Discharges 104