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Mitigate risk and elevate your quality of care. Improving both clinical and business outcomes starts with a smarter, more integrated approach to regulatory training, continuing education and quality management.

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Online store for Clinical Learners. Individual CE Credit and industry products for Clinical Learners are now available through NurseGrid Learn (Beta). Explore our robust collection of courses that provides an unparalleled level of flexibility and choice.

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Meet the DEA's new requirement under the Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act in an online, high-quality and self-paced 8-hour DEA MATE Act course specifically designed for practitioners, including Physicians, PAs, NPs, Pharmacists, Dentists and others.

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Decluttering Works for Healthcare Meetings as Well!

Think about what you can do to clear meeting clutter. It not only saves some trees, but helps to make meetings, like those of a Credentials Committee, much more productive.

April 01, 2021

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Should I Be an Emergency Room Nurse? Questions to Ask Yourself

Here are some questions to ask yourself if you wonder about becoming an Emergency Room Nurse. Healthcare organizations can select the best nurses for the ED by ensuring that they have both the clinical and non-clinical skills to be successful in this department.

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Preventing Risks Involved with Compounding Medication

Understanding the risks inherent in sterile and nonsterile compounding and incorporating established standards into daily practice is essential for patient safety. Ensure staff is aware of the risks involved with this treatment option.

April 01, 2021

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Using a Single Source to Identify All Your Healthcare Regulatory Training Requirements

Making sure your mandatory annual healthcare training meets all regulatory requirements is not as impossible as it seems, even when different requirements are buried in multiple sources and overlapping regulatory agencies.

April 01, 2021

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Recent 2019 Blog Posts about the Healthcare Continuum from HCCS and HealthStream

HealthStream and HCCS, A HealthStream Company recently published numerous blog posts related to the healthcare continuum. We’ve collected and compiled links to them here.

April 01, 2021

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Is Your Hospital Prepared for Aging Baby Boomers? New White Paper

A monumental event came and went last year without much fanfare: The first of the Baby Boomers turned 65. It is unlikely, however, that they will move quietly into their silver years. This will be especially true when it comes to how they access healthcare.

April 01, 2021

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The Anarchy Index: Looking at Hospital Employee Engagement

There are four questions asked in our Employee Insights surveys that determine the level of engagement in a hospital. Responses represent a four point scale and these are Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree (about their level of engagement).

April 01, 2021

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Put “Caring About People” Back in Healthcare

Everyone’s jobs have become more demanding. We all seem to do more with fewer human or material resources and those we serve have higher expectations. Healthcare is the same but with two additional factors... increased regulation/reporting requirements and their ultimate outcome... the health of its consumers.

April 01, 2021

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Leadership Development and Healthcare

Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. —Ross Perot

April 01, 2021

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Urgent Care and ED Nursing – What It Takes

Emergency department and urgent care center nurses will need to be able to work in a fast-paced and extremely stressful environment. Be sure that your nursing candidates will be a good fit for that kind of environment and your organization. Once you have successfully identified great candidates, be sure to support them with a great onboarding experience and tools to help them build confidence and competence in their practice.

April 01, 2021

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Hospital Community Perceptions: Branding Begins At Home

I had a powerful experience at a community hospital recently. I was reviewing results from a physician survey, and the ranking of the “would recommend this hospital to family and friends” question was very low – 17th percentile. The audience was a group of managers and department heads, but not physicians.

April 01, 2021

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The Business Case for Leadership Assessment in Healthcare

Given demographic trends, Healthcare organizations need to pay special attention to developing a pipeline of leadership talent for the future

April 01, 2021

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Straight Talk with Patients about Billing

It’s not always easy to talk about money with patients. Having the right conversation, at the right time, in the right way, can better serve patients’ needs, increase compliance, and reduce problems throughout the revenue cycle.

April 01, 2021

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Life Amid COVID: Physician and Medical Staff Leadership in Hospitals and Credentialing

Physicians were tested to the limit during the peak months of COVID and had to assume many specific responsibilities to ensure patients got adequate care. For many, the tiresome and meticulous work was rewarding.

April 01, 2021

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Using Digital Rounding as a Best Practice for Improving Patient Safety

Successful patient safety initiatives improve patient lives and outcomes. Although it may be hard for hospitals to successfully implement changes in workflow to enhance patient safety, technology like digital rounding can make it easier to achieve.

April 01, 2021

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Patient Safety is Improving: Some Positive Indications of Progress

The most recent National Healthcare QDR cites that measures of patient safety improved, with a 17 percent reduction in HACs.

April 01, 2021

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Preparing Your Practice for Value-Based Care: Five Best Practices

With your Medicare reimbursement at risk based on your participation in the Quality Payment Program this year, it’s critical that you start now. Don’t leave money on the table by failing to prepare

April 01, 2021

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New York State Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP): Heading into Year 3

There are 25 Performing Provider Systems in New York’s DSRIP. Having spent two years getting infrastructure and project plans in place, it is time to start operationalizing all that work. April 1, 2017 marked the beginning of Year 3, and reporting now will be a major focus.

April 01, 2021

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Shining a Light on the Physician Payments Sunshine Act

By the early 2000s, research started to show that even small gifts, such as the pens and mugs that were routinely given to physicians, could influence prescribing patterns. This led to significant changes to some pharmaceutical marketing practices.

April 01, 2021

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Taking the Pulse of HR Executives to Understand the Workforce Environment

HealthStream conducted a survey of healthcare HR executives and asked for their opinions on talent acquisition plans and priorities for the 2016 calendar year. The survey revealed how acquisition strategies are taking center stage for many organizations as the competition for quality nurses is heating up.

April 01, 2021