Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 24, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A genetic disorder is a medical condition that is brought on by changes in one’s genes or chromosomes. There are between 20,000 and 25,000 genes in every human body, and these genes determine which traits […]. The article Concerned About Your Unborn Baby?
Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 27, 2022
In the course of your nursing career, you need allies who can support you in elevating and advancing your journey as a professional nurse. Allies are easier to come by than you think, but many nurses don’t think strategically about this important aspect of nursing career development. Since many nurses seem averse to consciously and purposefully building a professional network, here are five strategies to do just that.
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Health Populi
OCTOBER 26, 2022
What is a “pharmacy” these days? You might have recently walked into a brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy. Or, you might have refilled a prescription to help you manage a chronic condition, online. Or, perhaps, you asked the pharmacist staffing your favorite grocery store Rx counter to give you the latest vaccine to keep COVID-19 variants at-bay.
Relias
OCTOBER 28, 2022
A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Though the benefits are clear, many home health and hospice agencies struggle to optimize coordination.
MedicalGPS
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Fostering Five-Star Customer Service – Attitude Makes the Difference. Whether you’re maintaining open/positive body language, addressing the patient by name, or taking an interest in the details of the patients’ personal life, all of that adds up to treating the patient with courtesy and respect. Letting the patient know that you respect and value them makes all the difference.
Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Whether you know Nurse Blake from his Facebook videos, podcast , live shows, or cruises, he’s the most popular nurse influencer on social media and a force to be reckoned with! Well, at least helping the nursing community and making nurses laugh. And he’s doing that a lot. He’s also, though, providing lots of educational opportunities for them as well.
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Relias
OCTOBER 25, 2022
I recently had the privilege of co-presenting a webinar for the American Hospital Association with two colleagues from Memorial Hermann Health System. Memorial Hermann is the largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas and spans 17 hospitals and over 260 care delivery sites with 1.7 million patient encounters per year. Our focus for this webinar was to look at how Memorial Hermann has emerged from the pandemic to reposition itself to successfully move forward in a difficult climate.
Southern Careers Institute
OCTOBER 22, 2022
Choosing a career path in healthcare can be overwhelming, especially with so many options to choose from. In addition to nurses and doctors, there are other professionals who are dedicated to the care of patients and their health, such as medical assistants and nurse aides. Although both positions have similar goals, their day-to-day duties, educational requirements, and career outlooks vary widely depending on what kind of healthcare setting you want to work in.
Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Cybersecurity threats are real, but you can take many steps to help protect your own information. October is designated as Cybersecurity Awareness Month and offers excellent resources to help you take steps to make it tougher for anyone to gain your information. Whether it’s keeping patient information private at work or keeping your own personal information away from strangers, you do have control over some of the most common threats.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Home, Sweet Hospital-At-Home? . It depends, I hedge in my latest essay for Medecision. In our bullish and, on its face, compassionate and cost-rational embrace of the migration of acute care from hospital beds to peoples’ living and bedrooms, there are several guardrails to consider beyond sheer payment and reimbursement calculations. Consider, The caregivers for the folks heading home from hospital.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 24, 2022
What happens to a health care ecosystem when the volume of patients and revenues they generate decline? Add to that scenario a growing consensus for a likely recession in 2023. How would that further impact the micro-economy of health care? A report from Trilliant on the 2022 Trends Shaping the Health Economy helps to inform our response to that question.
Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 26, 2022
When patients consider what they want in a hospital experience, they are looking for excellent and compassionate care, of course. But as patients think about a hospital experience, they are also looking for a factor many don’t know how to describe. Frequently, says Dr. Jesus Cepero , PhD, RN, NEA-BC and CNO of Stanford Medicine Children’s Health , patients describe wanting to be in an environment that doesn’t have a cold, sterile feeling.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Employers covering health insurance for workers’ families will face insurance premiums reaching, on average, $22,463. That is roughly what a year at an independent college in Connecticut would cost, or a round of pay for a ref in the Stanley Cup playoffs. With that sticker-shock level of health plan costs, welcome to the 2022 Employer Health Benefits Survey from Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF’s annual study of employer-sponsored health care.
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