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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Barbara Bosah

Minority Nurse

Barbara Bosah, MS, RN, PCCN, is a highly skilled nurse manager in the thoracic and surgical intermediate care unit and vascular progressive care unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), downtown campus in Baltimore, MD. These patients are admitted to our unit after undergoing surgery.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Elodia Mercier

Minority Nurse

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. I have always believed that happy staff leads to happy patients and great outcomes.

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The Nursing Shortage and Patient Safety

Relias

Because of these ongoing trends, healthcare organizations and the nursing community must work collaboratively to find ways to examine the link between the nursing shortage and patient safety. Patient safety is a fundamental goal of all health care. In some states, four patients per nurse is the maximum for emergency care.

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6 Steps to Centralized Scheduling for Smarter Management of Nursing Staff

DropStat

Centralized staffing can save organizations thousands of dollars monthly in nurse staffing wages, staff attendance, and patient outcomes. Centralized scheduling is a scheduling process where a central office manages all nurse staffing, either within an entire organization or across many organizations.

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Language Barriers in Healthcare and 5 Strategies to Overcome Them

DropStat

Knowing that their patients don’t understand what they are saying or the healthcare education they offer can add stress to the nurses’ workday and place obstacles all the way through the patient journey. Should hospitals and health care providers work on overcoming language barriers?

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Incorporating Patient Feedback to Improve Practice Productivity 

CollaborateMD

But some of it is patient feedback data. Patient feedback in healthcare provides valuable insights into the service provider’s performance. Understanding your patientsexperiences is crucial for driving service quality improvements. It also boosts patient satisfaction. And a powerful one at that.

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Insights and Perspectives on Physicians’ Hospital Satisfaction

Doximity

The patient experience is excellent!” Be] careful of a toxic workplace environment toward outsiders.” Compensation is below market for workload and unit production…Organization-wide bureaucracy seems to add layers of admin annually without adding MDs. What matters most for a healthy workplace experience?