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The Normalization of Missed Nursing Care

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Many aspects of routine nursing care were skipped during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurse leaders are now trying to do a reset on care as they look at declining quality and safety measures. Consider the story a nurse manager recently shared on a webinar: I have been shocked […] The post The Normalization of Missed Nursing Care appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Doctors on Measles: “NEVER Listen to the Anti-Vax Cult When They Say This ‘Natural’ Disease is Harmless”. Doctors on COVID: ?

Science Based Medicine

Measles and COVID are different, of course, but they are not categorically different. With both viruses, unvaccinated children suffer the most. Yet, doctors who rightly said "measles can be a devastating childhood illness" also said it was "breathless fear-mongering" to acknowledge that COVID can also be a devastating childhood illness. The post Doctors on Measles: “NEVER Listen to the Anti-Vax Cult When They Say This ‘Natural’ Disease is Harmless”.

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Health disparities research is full of low quality work

Sensible Medicine

Recently, I saw a tweet from World Lung Conference. A presenter lamented differences in Lung cancer screening rates by race. Black and Hispanic patients had lower rates of lung cancer CT screening than whites, and the speaker argued that we needed targeted efforts to improve this disparity. But lung cancer screening doesn't work, as I described in a prior post.

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Educating About Health Equity

Minority Nurse

Nursing has always held health equity as a critical value in many ways. Nurses strive to deliver the best care to all patients, independent of socioeconomic status, gender, race, or other factors. Health equity arguably gets even more attention than in the past. And that attention also occurs in nursing schools, where nurses are presented with the concept of health equity.

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Rethinking Nursing Professionalism

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A blog reader recently asked me whether I thought some aspects of “nursing professionalism” might be racial or generational constructs. It was an excellent point because ideas about professionalism are tied to our cultural upbringing and experiences. Leaders often talk to me about what they perceive as […] The post Rethinking Nursing Professionalism appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Cancer quack Stanis?aw Burzynski continues to prey on cancer patients in 2023

Science Based Medicine

This year, cancer quack Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski turned 80. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to be slowing down charging patients with advanced cancer huge sums for false hope. The post Cancer quack Stanisław Burzynski continues to prey on cancer patients in 2023 first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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The Crucial Link: How Nurses and Patients Benefit from Enhanced Clinical Communication

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Will O’Connor, M.D., chief medical information officer, TigerConnect When the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that COVID-19 was no longer a global pandemic, everyone breathed a maskless sigh of relief and tried to put […] The article The Crucial Link: How Nurses and Patients Benefit from Enhanced Clinical Communication appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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The Healthcare Financial Experience is a Stressful One: the Convergence of our Medical, Retail, and Financial Lives

Health Populi

One in two consumers in the U.S. feel their well-being or healing was negatively impacted by difficulty paying for their medical care. Welcome to the convergence of patients’ health care life with financial and retail lives, we learn from the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar. And that patient’s positive clinical experience can absolutely reverse the consumer’s perception of the provider, noted by this quote from OSU’s Chief Financial Officer Vincent T

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Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive?

Science Based Medicine

It's not as complicated as you may think. The post Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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The Sexual Politics of Waiting Rooms

Sensible Medicine

I’ve managed to keep up the every other week Friday Reflection for 58 weeks. A very busy month almost led me to miss this deadline, and then my mother came to the rescue. My mom died 4 years ago. At the time I packed away her journals and albums, unable to imagine getting rid of any of them. During the last couple of weeks, for the same reasons I failed to write a reflection this week, I dove into her files.

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How Mobile-First Websites Can Influence More Patients to Reach You

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bjoern Sjut, co-founder and CEO, Finc3. It is challenging to ignore mobile smartphones’ influence on our day-to-day lives. Sometimes it’s the first thing you see in the morning and the last at night. The […] The article How Mobile-First Websites Can Influence More Patients to Reach You appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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It’s Time To End Suicide Stigma

Relias

The increasing rates of suicide in the United States has been an issue for decades. As with many mental health conditions, American society has unfortunately applied stigma to suicide and those coping with suicidal ideation. To overcome the U.S. mental health crisis and decrease the yearly rates of suicide, we must address these stigmas. What is suicide stigma?

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The Omnichannel Imperative for Healthcare: Supporting Telehealth Awareness Week 2023

Health Populi

“What omnichannel really means: hearing the customer wherever they are and making them feel heard, valued, and understood.” That statement comes from Qualtrics’ explanation of omnichannel experience design. The very human needs of feeling one is heard, is valued, and is understood, underpin the rasion d’etre of omnichannel marketing.

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Foy and Mandrola Discuss AF, AF-Ablation, Sham-controls, Evidence Translation and Heterogenous Treatment Effects

Sensible Medicine

This week, I talk with Andrew Foy, who is an academic cardiologist at Penn State University in Hershey, PA. Andrew is one of the smartest voices in medicine today. We start with the REMEDIAL trial, published recently in JAMA. Ablation vs Meds. Primary endpoint—depression and anxiety. One of the main issues was the control arm—namely that there was no sham control.

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The Role of Digital Tools In Enhancing the Patient Experience and Value-Based Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chris Martini, chief provider officer, PatientPoint. In today’s U.S. healthcare system, patients often find themselves in a perplexing situation where the quality of clinical care can be excellent, but the overall patient experience may […] The article The Role of Digital Tools In Enhancing the Patient Experience and Value-Based Care appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Building Organizational Resilience for Behavioral Health Providers

Relias

Though the COVID-19 pandemic is waning, the changes it brought to healthcare persist. Longer hours for clinicians, increased rates of burnout among all providers, and higher rates of reported mental illness are now commonplace. While these and many other difficulties are challenging, organizations can respond by creating systems for building organizational resilience.

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Spontaneous Human Combustion. A Sort of Narrative Review.

Science Based Medicine

Burning Man. It is more than a rained out festival in the desert. The post Spontaneous Human Combustion. A Sort of Narrative Review. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Grocery and Golf Goodness: Food, Fitness, and Fresh Come Together

Health Populi

“ Groceries and glutes,” CNN reported in 2019 about a food store combining a gym in the store. While grocery stores have been embedded various fitness options into their brick-and-mortar footprints long before the pandemic, there’s a new riff on fitness at the grocer coming to Augusta, Georgia: grocery and golf. FreshTake, a new grocery store from a family-owned food chain, will open its doors in 2024, located in a Whole Foods location that closed in 2017.

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Health Level Seven Announces New John Quinn Fellows and W. Edward Hammond Volunteer of the Year Awards

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Health Level Seven (HL7) International, the global authority on interoperability of health information technology with members in 55 countries, announced the 2023 class of John Quinn HL7 Fellows and the 2023 recipients of the W. Edward […] The article Health Level Seven Announces New John Quinn Fellows and W.

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Prevention and Control Strategies for Nosocomial Infections

Medical Gas Compliance

Keeping your medical gas systems operating properly isn't the only challenge that affects patient safety. It is about time that these formerly Hospital Acquired Infection or Hospital Associated Infections were seriously attacked. In recent years, these infections have been responsible for 270,000 deaths and cause an estimated 1.7 million illnesses in the United States per year.

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Do You Need a Nurse Mentor?

Minority Nurse

As a hard-working and successful nursing professional examining your career, you might reflect on your nurse mentor. The person who inspired, guided, advised, and kept you on the straight and narrow path, and ask yourself if you’ve ever been one yourself. Was there someone who took you under their wing? Was there an individual who counseled you on your choice of master’s degree program?

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How to Provide Training for Healthcare Workers in Rural Hospitals

CareerStep

While the healthcare industry, in general, has faced ups and downs in the last few years, rural hospitals and health networks, specifically, continue to face the threat of closure. Many have struggled to meet their staffing goals, leaving them unable to comfortably serve the communities they’re based in. This has led to a lack of healthcare options in rural areas that is not only detrimental to patients, but to the healthcare system as a whole.

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Patient Engagement: How To Design Virtual Care Experiences for Long-Term Engagement

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Elise Mortensen, head of growth, HTD Health. We often think of healthcare as the direct communication between provider and patient in an appointment or clinical setting. However, most of what influences health outcomes sits […] The article Patient Engagement: How To Design Virtual Care Experiences for Long-Term Engagement appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Four Avoidable Problems With Medical Gas Equipment

Medical Gas Compliance

Most of us assume that because the hospital is plumbed for vacuum and gasses, everything will work right the first and every time. Usually, it does, but there is a reason every operating room has multiple outlets and inlets. Sometimes, things don’t go as planned.

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Healthy Aging Advice with Gerontological Nurse Sharon Bronner

Minority Nurse

As the population in the United States ages, healthy aging is going to become a concern for a growing segment of people and the healthcare teams that care for them. September’s Healthy Aging Month designation brings an awareness for nurses who want to offer appropriate care for their aging patients and who also want to be mindful of healthy aging practices for their own health.

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Benefits of Continuous Training For Everyone in the Office

Top Practices

As a physician business owner or medical office manager, there are several significant benefits to implementing continuous learning and re-training reviews for your staff. These practices can have a positive impact on both your team and the overall efficiency and effectiveness of your medical office. Here are some key advantages: Enhanced Skills and Knowledge Continuous learning and re-training ensure that your staff stays up-to-date with the latest medical advancements, technologies, and best p

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AMA Releases The CPT 2024 Code Set

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. To bridge language barriers and make healthcare more inclusive and transparent for patients who speak Spanish, the American Medical Association (AMA) now offers Spanish language descriptors for more than 11,000 medical procedures and services. […] The article AMA Releases The CPT 2024 Code Set appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Patients Rising Signs onto Letter to Increase Patient Access to Pharmacy Services

Patients Rising

Patients Rising Now joined several other advocacy groups in sending a letter of support for H.4066 and S.1425 in the Massachusetts State Legislature to the Joint Committee on Financial Services […] The post Patients Rising Signs onto Letter to Increase Patient Access to Pharmacy Services appeared first on Patients Rising.

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Practicing for Your Med School Interview

Accepted Blog

Most applicants come away from their first med school interview saying, “That wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.” As with many things in life, the anticipation of a stressful event can sometimes be worse than the event itself. Although many med schools work hard to make interviewing applicants feel relaxed, this doesn’t mean you should show up unprepared.

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Medical Terminology Quiz: Atrial Fibrillation (AFib)

Medical Terminology Blog

Over 2 million Americans are living with atrial fibrillation ( Ā-trē-al ) ( fi- bri -LĀ-shun ) (AFib). It is most often the result of other conditions that affect the heart’s health, such as high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. Signs and symptoms include palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain, and fatigue. Some people may have no symptoms.

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Alternative Equipment Maintenance Program (AEM) for Hospitals

Medical Gas Compliance

In the dynamic healthcare environment, the maintenance of medical equipment is vital to ensuring the well-being of patients and the efficiency of hospital operations. Traditional preventative maintenance practices can be costly and time-consuming, often leading hospitals to explore alternative approaches. The Alternative Equipment Maintenance (AEM) program was created for those hospitals that intend to deviate from the equipment manufacturer's recommendations.