Scrubs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Trinity Health announced it will introduce virtual nursing at its hospitals in Michigan and Ardent Health Services plans to do the same in New Mexico. I believe that our future will continue to incorporate virtual nurses as a way to transfer knowledge from more seasoned nurses to our newer nursing workforce.

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Discharges Hospital Transfers Patient Satisfaction 238

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

She was then transferred to a hospital before ultimately returning to the hospice facility in Urbandale. “The funeral home then called 911 and hospice.” Emergency medical personnel arrived on the scene and soon found a pulse but no other movement or motor response. She then passed away with her family on Jan.

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Hospice Transfers Communication Hospital 264

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

There are nights when you the leave the hospital, but your mind remains behind. “I am on bone marrow transplant— which basically means that for some people with blood cancer we transfer a different person’s immune system into them. The dinner was supposed to begin at 8pm, but I didn’t arrive till 9pm.

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Transfers Tests Hospital 357

Scrubs

AUGUST 18, 2023

. “I was in nursing school doing clinical at the hospital. My instructor was on the side of draw sheet, but I forgot to put the patient’s Foley on top of his body to transfer and the catheter pulled out of him. My instructor was with me when a post-op patient came up to the floor.

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Sterilization Transfers Hospital 246

We Care Online

DECEMBER 4, 2024

HHAs often assist clients with mobility, transfers, and personal care, which can be physically taxing, especially if the client has limited mobility. Isolation: Unlike healthcare professionals who work in team settings like hospitals or clinics, HHAs often work independently in the client’s home.

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Communication Transfers Scheduling Certification 97

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

  I usually see people who die alone in the hospital. Some of these patients die alone in the hospital, with nobody at their bedside. Others are transferred to inpatient hospice centers. .  They say that there is nothing worse than dying alone. ii Whoever “they” are also say that we all die alone.

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Hospice Bookkeeping Follow-Up Appointments 313

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

OCTOBER 10, 2024

While Florida hospitals largely withstood the worst of the hurricane’s impacts, disruptions to public services could result in more patient transfers in the coming days.

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Hospital Transfers 57

Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Following the wind of change, we find that healthcare is on the way to transferring most of its processes to the cloud. According to IDC, hospitals now tend to prefer keeping custom medical software from EHRs to AI and data analytics on cloud servers instead of in-house management. With more […].

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Transfers Hospital Medication 107

Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In my last post, I discussed how our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which the looming “silver tsunami” will drive baby boomers into hospitals and post acute care facilities in record numbers. Similarly, we will see dramatically increased patient transfers […].

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Acute Care Transfers Hospital 102

We Care Online

JANUARY 14, 2025

By understanding the transferable aspects of your degree and strategically building your knowledge base, you can carve out a fulfilling career. Highlighting Transferable Skills When applying for roles in healthcare, your ability to emphasize transferable skills will set you apart.

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Transfers Communication Certification Patient Advocacy 52

Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 7, 2024

This is an astounding difference in the quality of sleep, and to this day, premature infants in the hospital are slept on their stomachs. One third of the retained milestones were transferred to different ages; 68% of those transferred were moved to older ages.”

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Follow-Up Transfers Tests Documentation 286

We Care Online

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Voluntary positions can be a useful way of showcasing these skills and in particular soft, transferable skills. These are perfect conditions for developing the sort of transferable skills you can put to use in the healthcare sector.

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Transfers Hospice Follow-Up Teamwork 53

Scrubs

MAY 19, 2023

The first anonymous nurse with a bogus degree started out by attending nursing school in New York City before transferring to Palm Beach School of Nursing after one of his colleagues told him about the program. “So yes, we did everything that they told us to do at that time in order to get a degree.”

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Transfers Hospital Medication 184

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

If you don’t have any direct healthcare experience, consider including transferable skills, such as communication and problem-solving, that can be applied to nursing. The report also shows that there is a shortage of nurses due to the rapid growth of hospitals and clinics around the world.

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Certification Follow-Up Transfers Hospital 221

Arkenea

JANUARY 28, 2025

NCCIH (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health) Proposal The NCCIH in the United States is accepting proposals and recommendations from medical device developers for Small Business Technology Transfer Grants. Further, another focus is to enhance or practice the efficacy of body and mind interventions.

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Collaboration Transfers Medication Huddles/Rounds 89

ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 14, 2025

Assisting with Mobility: Helping patients move around the facility, including assisting with bed transfers, repositioning, or using wheelchairs. Monitoring Vital Signs: Measuring and recording patients’ blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, and respiratory rate. Reporting abnormal readings to the nursing staff or physician.

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Certification Unit Organization and Environment Medical Assistant Vital Signs 52

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

The reason for the exceptionally high number of data breaches was a cyberattack on the rehabilitation and long-term acute care hospital operator Ernest Health. When a health system experiences a breach that affects multiple hospitals, the breach is usually reported as a single breach. breaches a month over the past 12 months.

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Business Associate HIPAA Hospital Billing 126

Healthcare Law Insights blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

A 2018 study found it took rural Americans, on average, 17 minutes to get to a hospital, but only 10 minutes in an urban center. [i] i] The distance between rural hospitals can be vastly further – in 2019, a National Institutes of Health study noted that hospitals in one rural state were generally at least 50 miles apart. [ii]

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Hospital Transfers Scheduling Medication 52

Healthcare Law Insights blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Medical staff reporting obligations It may fall to physicians serving on the medical executive committee of a Wyoming hospital to fulfill the hospital’s obligation under the Wyoming Medical Practice Act to report corrective action taken by the hospital against a physician.

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Transfers Hospital Medication Certification 59

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

JULY 12, 2024

Case Facts Dr P was a pulmonologist who had a practice and was affiliated with a large hospital. Mr C’s primary care physician had Mr C admitted to the hospital where Dr P practiced. After admission to the hospital, Mr C was treated with antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia.

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Admissions Hospital Transfers Medication 98

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The solution built a QR code embedded with the patient’s full data (clinical, social determinants, and other relevant bits of information to complete the patient’s profile) with a designated caregiver at both ends of the transfer — from the originating site to the admission site.

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Hospital Transfers Admissions Huddles/Rounds 127

Minority Nurse

MARCH 23, 2023

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, it became increasingly common to see signs outside hospitals saying something akin to, “Heroes work here.” Meanwhile, the “heroes work here” banners outside hospitals reiterated the claim of heroism, putting nurses and their colleagues on pedestals that might have felt just a tad uncomfortable and precarious.

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Transfers Hospital Medication 104

Healthcare Law Insights blog

JUNE 8, 2023

2] For years the physician group that filed suit (all board-certified hospitalists) had a direct contract with a hospital system. Under that contract, in exchange for a stipend, the group provided around-the-clock hospitalist services several of the system’s local hospitals.

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Hospital Discharges Transfers Huddles/Rounds 98

Mobius MD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

” – App Store Review Popular Alternatives: TigerConnect (secure hospital team messaging), OhMD (HIPAA-compliant patient texting). Physicians can also access Mobius Conveyor’s leading dictation software to dictate notes on their smartphones and seamlessly transfer them into any EHR.

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Medication HIPAA Documentation Communication 52

The Healthcare Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

And compared to most of the rest of the world, where surgical interventions by fee-for-service OB/GYNs and hospitals are not rewarded with more revenue, patients in the US need a rate reduction of 10 to 15 points, not three.

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Transfers Admissions Medication Hospital 113

The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

One set of people had hospital debts that were at the point of being sold to a collection agency, and another had debts that had already been sent to collection. And, perhaps to highlight how little we understand our healthcare system, they asked experts in medical debt what their expectations for the experiment were.

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Billing Medication Transfers Hospital 113

Connect Care Bytes Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Dictate any pre-launch admission or transfer notes Launch 8 inpatient facilities are supported for dictation of admission histories, transfer notes, consultation reports and discharge summaries. The same applies for Consults performed in the coming week for patients expected to still be in-hospital post-launch.

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Transfers Admissions Discharges Hospital 40

Minority Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

Strikes for Safe Staffing and Fair Contracts Although hospital executives and management have set standards such as how many nurses can be hired and what benefits they get, nurse associations like National Nurses United (NNU) have fought to protect nurses ’ safety when these contracts don ’ t reflect nurses ’ needs in the workplace.

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Hospital Transfers Medication 96

The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Optum’s topline revenues are almost four times larger than HCA, the nation’s largest hospital company, one third larger than the entirety of Elevance, United’s most significant health plan competitor, and more than double the size of Kaiser Permanente. non-hospital) medical groups with significant at-risk (e.g.

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Tests Hospital Insurance Medication 132

The Healthcare Blog

JULY 3, 2024

A revolution is a transfer of power.” Also in 1973, the American Hospital Association, facing the threat of Congressional action, adopted a “patient bill of rights” that contained such guarantees as patients having the right to know the names of all the physicians treating them! The book has sold millions of copies.

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Follow-Up Medication Patient Centered Care Transfers 119

Guideway Care

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Transitional care management (TCM) plays a critical role in reducing hospital readmissions by ensuring patients receive proper care and support as they transition from the hospital to home. By focusing on follow-up care, medication management, and patient education, TCM addresses the primary factors leading to readmissions.

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Discharges Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction Transfers 52

Minority Nurse

MARCH 6, 2024

As the director of nursing operations at a world-class pediatric hospital, I hold a multifaceted role encompassing numerous responsibilities. After a year there, I transferred to the PACU to get some experience in intubation and sedation. I then transferred to the PICU, where I worked as a nurse and a charge nurse.

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Unit Organization and Environment Transfers Continuing Education Patient Safety 105

DrChrono

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Hike through the mountains for an hour to get to transportation, drive for 3 hours to Port-au-Prince, and transfer patient to care at the hospital. PLAN: Intravenous fluids Beta-blocker to lower blood pressure IV Magnesium Sulfate 4.

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Transfers Hospital 40

Minority Nurse

APRIL 15, 2024

Ensuring CPR certification means you are on hand with the knowledge to help save a life in or out of the hospital. Hospitals Have the Latest Equipment–We Don’t Need CPR According to The Joint Commission, crash carts with missing or expired items make up the top three list of hospital problems.

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Certification Discharges Hospital Transfers 59

Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the challenges has been price transparency, which is the central premise of this weekend’s New York Times research-rich article by reporters Sarah Kliff and Josh Katz: Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Patients have been much more forthcoming than hospitals, the journalists have found.

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Patient Experience Billing Insurance Medication 90

Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA). We must shift our True North mantra for improving health care in the U.S.

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Insurance Transfers Hospital Medication 62

CareerStep

MAY 2, 2024

It is the heart of the hospital; without it, surgeries could not be performed!” Sterile processing technicians are most in demand in hospital settings. There are several environments you can work in as a pharmacy technician, including local pharmacies, hospitals, assisted living facilities, and grocery stores.

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Sterilization Medication Certification Medical Assistant 69