Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Most U.S. consumers will continue to spend their disposable incomes on connected consumer devices, but will be looking for more balance in their digital lives according to Deloitte’s fourth annual 2023 Connected Consumer Survey. In this year’s update, the Deloitte Center for Technology, Media & Telecommunications found that most households use five key digital devices daily: above all, smartphones, followed by laptop and desktop computers, tablets, and computer monitors.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Messias Soares's radio interview on Radio Cultura FM 97.9 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, offers a deep dive into the world of telemedicine and its transformative power in Latin America. Together with Guillermo Schor Landman, a Lawyer specializing in Telecommunications Law and Telemedicine and President of Fundación Iberoamericana de Telemedicina , Messias sheds light on innovative solutions, real-life cases, and the growing importance of telemedicine in the region's healthcare landscape.

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Amber Pharmacy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

OMAHA, Neb. (Sept. 14, 2023) – In honor of Amber Specialty Pharmacy’s 25th anniversary, the specialty pharmacy provider has launched Vitality, a new six-month transplant recovery program to help support patients and caregivers during the post-transplant period, which is considered the most critical time for those patients. The new Vitality program helps support patients through billing, medications, dietitian support and patient outreach.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s healthcare leaders continuously face the challenge of meeting high expectations and adapting to change. Transformational leadership, the preferred management style of Magnet®-designated hospitals, has been shown to transform teams to higher levels of practice. With staff retention currently as a top priority for many healthcare organizations, the connection between strong leadership and retaining employees is clear.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

One-half of clinicians working in the U.S., doctors and nurses alike, are considering leaving their current role in the next two to three years. That 1 in 2 clinicians is significantly greater than the global 37% of physicians and nurses thinking about leaving their roles in the next 3 years, according to the report Clinician of the Future 2023 from Elsevier.

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Emerging RN Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Many nurse leaders are now trying to reset their cultures to focus more on quality and safety. Professional accountability is undoubtedly one of the hottest topics on the minds of frontline leaders. It is only possible to have a culture of quality and safety if nurses hold […] The post Helping Nurses to Speak Up appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Employee assessments are crucial for organizations to find, hire, and retain talented staff. And the ability to keep talented people in your organization is the difference between providing decent services and providing great services. For your organization, and its staff, to achieve its full protentional, consider implementing assessments throughout the employee journey, from onboarding new recruits to helping veteran staff improve.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Discrimination in health care is reported by more people in the U.S. than in Germany, Spain, or the U.K., we learn in the research reported in The Intersection of Health Equity in Communities & Business Strategy: A Call-to-Action , from Omnicomm PR Group (OPRG) and Atlantic Insights. The study was conducted among 6,000 people living in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, fielding 1,500 interviews in each of the four countries in March 2023.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A utilitarian ethical approach views to balance the greatest good over harm to everyone involved while considering the benefits and consequences (Velasquez et al., 2021). Migration occurs when a new circumstance or opportunity is better than the existing situation. The looming shortages in the nursing workforce globally make migration inevitable. It is essential to weigh the benefits and consequences of nurses’ migration.

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Emerging RN Leader

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Many healthcare systems will be piloting new care delivery models that include the use of LPNs in 2024. Some systems, such as Community Health Systems, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Dartmouth Hitchcock, have successfully been doing this for years. I had a long leadership history of […] The post Adding LPNs to Acute Care Teams appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Texas Medical and Dental Schools Application Service (TMDSAS) has its own application process. You can begin filling out the organization’s electronic application on May 1, similar to the AMCAS application. On the TMDSAS application, there are two required essays and one optional essay. Ready to get to work on your TMDSAS application? Read on. TMDSAS application essay tips TMDSAS medical application deadlines and important dates TMDSAS application essay tips Personal characteristics essay (

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99MGMT

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

You don't have to look far to see the use cases of AI in healthcare – diagnostics, robotic surgery, and much more. But what about the time-sucking tasks that get in the way of those important patient touchpoints ?

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CareerStep

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As back to school season heats up, it offers a great opportunity to motivate your learners and push them toward success! While a big part lies with the learners themselves, there are many ways through which you, as a mentor or employer, can encourage and support them to stay motivated and engaged throughout –and sometimes even beyond- the program. Utilize the following tips and tricks to keep your learners progressing throughout their education or training program!

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Beacon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Are you trying to find better ways to train your employees? We all know starting a new job can feel daunting, so providing employees with the right knowledge base ahead of time can help them integrate more effectively into your workplace.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Just how important is having a mock interview before your upcoming graduate school admissions interview? Listen to Accepted Founder Linda Abraham’s two-minute answer to this often-asked question. As for actual applicants who elected to before their official interview, how did they ultimately feel about their decision? Here is some recent feedback we’ve received from such clients: “Working with Cydney through Accepted helped me prepare for my medical school interviews tremendously.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Neonatal nursing provides care for the tiniest and most vulnerable infants, and the nurses in this specialty are celebrated this week by the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) and other organizations marking this year’s National Neonatal Nurses Week. NANN member Julie E. Williams DNP, CRNP, NNP-BC , is a lead nurse practitioner in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at The Johns Hopkins Hospital Bloomberg Children Center and found neonatal nursing after practicing for many years

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CMA (AAMA) In Sight

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

This post was originally published on the Legal Eye blog. The roles of medical assistants have expanded and diversified during the last 10 years. So too have the number and types of medical assisting credentials. In this blog post, I will explain basic facts about medical assisting credentials and the potential legal consequences of misusing them.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Investigators from Leipzig Germany called the trial ECLS-SHOCK. It studied the use of extracorporeal life support in patients with cardiogenic shock due to acute myocardial infarction. ECLS-SHOCK delivered shocking results. First some background. Cardiogenic shock is medical jargon to describe the really bad situation when the heart cannot deliver enough blood to the body.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I released this on my own substack, but honestly think the readers of Sensible Medicine should know this. If your chair tells you to not talk to the press, the chair should be fired. I was recently reading Jay Bhattacharya’s first person account of his treatment at Stanford— the vicious disputes about lockdown in the Spring of 2020— and this jumped out at me.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I grew up in a clinic. My mom (a pediatrician) and my uncle (a cardiologist) both had offices in the basement of our two-family home in Brooklyn. When the first floor tenants moved out, my dad (a vascular surgeon) opened an ambulatory surgery center in that apartment. Looking back, my childhood home was practically a clinic. My parents are baby boomers, born as first-generation Americans.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

I’ve been getting questions recently about a certain doctor and his most recent book. It doesn’t really matter who this doctor is or, for that matter, what his book is about. The specifics change every few years. The doctor is photogenic and usually male. He is smart and has an impeccable academic pedigree. The book is about a solution to a problem for which traditional medicine has little to offer.

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