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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. Our unit specializes in providing care for some of the sickest patients within the Maryland region.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 1: Origin Stories, the Security Ecosystem, and the Start Line

Health Populi

Internal Audit is uniquely positioned in an organization and getting the opportunity to see how a company operates and, most importantly, how C-Suites prioritize solutions, has been one of the best decisions I’ve made on the road to becoming a CISO. JSK: You moved into the Amedisys organization in 2018 as Chief Information Security Officer.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

As part of this project, the team asked, “How can we make this a more open environment for data flow, with analytics on top?”. Another facet of telehealth is in helping to scale intensive care units (ICUs). In the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals want patients to be (appropriately) discharged home from hospital as soon as possible.

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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. Mercier showcased this success at the New York Organization for Nursing Leadership last September.

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Making the Needed Connections With Omnichannel CX

Walker Info - Patient Experience

Fact: Customers are taking advantage of more channels than ever – think websites, mobile, and a whole range of social apps in addition to traditional methods – to provide feedback about your organization. That was an easier inquiry to answer when most of the interactions took place within the four walls of the organization.

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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. Healthcare organizations will need to replace them with less experienced nurses.

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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.