How well we react to the changes in our worklife is an indicator of how effective we will be in our profession. Here are 13 smart things that every medical staff professional should know.
A medical or professional mistake may trigger a Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) for cause. These recommendations can help organizations create an FPPE action plan that embodies a culture of learning and opportunity for improvement.
How an organization responds to a serious conflict of interest is very important and can have a great deal of influence on its reputation after a violation becomes public knowledge. Here’s how Memorial Sloan Kettering is responding to its lapses.
Avoiding and preventing conflict of interest (COI) is an important focus of healthcare compliance. When the medical director at a prominent research hospital failed to disclose his strong industry ties, it created a major headache for everyone involved.
Like for any emergent disease, as healthcare professionals, we do what we know to do about opioid abuse disorder. Prevent the disease from ever happening and use evidence-based practices to treat those affected. Given the enormity of the problem, we conclude it will take a long time and great effort to effect change.
A rapidly growing senior population looking to age in place and receive end of life care away from healthcare institutions, is putting an increasing strain on the understaffed hospice and palliative care community.
Frailty, in combination with other risk factors, increases an older patient’s vulnerability to a difficult transition of care and re-hospitalization. Identifying it and making allowances for its effects can help improve outcomes for this vulnerable population.
The burden of government healthcare regulation has resulted in providers and systems saying they are spending too much time ensuring compliance, taking them away from their primary mission of providing care. What is the extent of the problem?
A “win-win” scenario is created when healthcare organizations invest in team member improvement and continuing education/ competency as part of supporting lifelong learning. Healthcare leaders are critical in facilitating Lifelong Learning for their employees.
Task To Touch, a new HealthStream courseware partner, is focused on helping clinicians understand how to adopt specific skills that enhance the patient experience in the healthcare setting.
One of the keys to retaining new nurses is increasing their confidence. The HealthStream Nurse Confidence Survey, the only validated survey instrument of its kind, is the cornerstone of our effort to measure and strengthen new nurses’ confidence.
With greater focus on patient-centered care and the need for coordination of care across providers and settings, the industry is seeing more strategic partnerships among hospitals, post-hospital care providers, and ACOs.
Healthcare organizations need a formal process to train patient access staff to understand how to handle important patient financial issues. Mission Health recently developed a patient Patient access Access education program that improved departmental and revenue cycle performance.
Missed diagnoses may not always occur on the grand scale of not identifying Ebola; however, they do occur and they can be just as impactful.
A preceptorship is a challenging role even for the experienced staff nurse. It is important to keep in mind that precepting requires a different set of skills that may or may not automatically be possessed by the preceptor.
What do MSPs have to say about what it takes to be a successful leader? Here is Part 2 of advice to medical staff leaders gathered during 30 years of work with healthcare organizations.
At least 1-in-every-20 adults who seek medical care in the US, via emergency rooms or community health clinics, may walk away with the wrong diagnosis. At that estimate, 12 million Americans a year could be affected.
The CDC estimates that almost 20 percent of women will experience some type of depressive episode during or after pregnancy. Untreated, this can have a devastating effect on women, their innocence, and their families.
What do MSPs have to say about what it takes to be a successful leader? Here is Part 1 of advice to medical staff leaders gathered during 30 years of work with healthcare organizations.
One of the best ways a hospital can prepare new nurses for the rigors of their job and encourage their retention is by offering an advanced onboarding process that is anchored by a nurse preceptorship program.
