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What is Revenue Cycle in Healthcare?
The healthcare revenue cycle is integral to facility stability, so a well-rounded training and continuing education approach must be taken to ensure full staff understanding and buy-in.
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How to Become a Healthcare Compliance Officer
The career outlook for healthcare compliance careers is very promising. A few years ago, The Wall Street Journal labeled compliance officer the hottest job in America.
April 1st, 2021
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What Are Some of the Typical Positions in Healthcare Compliance?
Compliance jobs exist across many industries, but job duties and responsibilities for them are remarkably similar, regardless of where you work. . Here some of the typical positions representative of a healthcare compliance program.
April 1st, 2021
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Understanding the Primary Nursing Care Model
Explore the Primary Nursing Care Model. Understand its benefits, principles, and implementation to enhance patient care and nursing satisfaction.
April 1st, 2021
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Respiratory Care Week Means Time to Slow Down, Take a Breath, and Look at Prevention
Respiratory Care Week is a great opportunity to study the specific illnesses related to the lungs, as well as the many ways they can be prevented.
April 1st, 2021
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3 Guidelines for Mentoring New Graduate Nurses
Learn how to be successful at mentoring nurses, one must refrain from providing too much assistance or too little in the effort, from HealthStream.
April 1st, 2021
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Improve Healthcare By Performance-Guided Learning
Learn how playing to employees’ strengths through performance-based learning, when properly implemented, can help achieve operational goals from HealthStream
April 1st, 2021
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Millennial, Gen X, & Baby Boomers, How do Their Work Ethics Differ
Understand the variance in work ethics, approach to authority, and collaboration among Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials in healthcare.
April 1st, 2021
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Introducing Jane — The First Digital Nurse Advisor
HealthStream has introduced the Jane™, the first-ever AI-based competency assessment solution using a conversational format, to help quickly and accurately onboard both new and experienced nurses.
April 1st, 2021
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Home or Facility? The Pros and Cons of In-Home Medical Care
There is no “one size fits all’ option for deciding who can receive in-home health care vs. moving to a care facility, but by exploring specific needs, costs and local option, a plan of action can be created.
April 1st, 2021
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Home Health Care vs. Hospital Care
The move toward value-based care may have us seeing home health care as a treatment option with even more benefits for patients and outcomes. Cost, clinical results and patient comfort may support providing higher levels of care at home.
April 1st, 2021
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Use Feedback to Improve Engagement in the Healthcare Workplace
Millennials make up the largest generation working in healthcare, and their numbers and predominance will only continue to grow. That’s why it is important for healthcare managers to learn how to make regular communication about performance work, specifically for millennials.
April 1st, 2021
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Validating the Jane Competency System AI Critical Thinking Assessments
This blog post describes HealthStream’s study to assess the validity of the Jane™ competency system’s AI critical thinking assessments as an evaluative tool in scoring responses of RNs in situations where critical judgment is required.
April 1st, 2021
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Performance Measurement To Improve Patient Access Management
Learn why patient access managers and operations should be measured on KPIs to monitor quality, process, financial, and customer service, from HealthStream.
April 1st, 2021
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Short Staffing in Long-Term Care Is Having an Impact on Resident and Financial Outcomes
Staffing levels are one of the most important determinants of whether a long-term care facility is providing adequate care. However, many nursing homes have employee coverage issues and are failing the meet the CMS requirement “that a registered nurse be on-site at least eight hours every day.”
April 1st, 2021
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The Importance of Patient Care Coordination for Outcomes
Given the multiple tracks that healthcare can take, from inpatient to outpatient and even to community settings, there is a need for care coordination and management of the transition between providers and all settings of care. Nurses are often at the heart of this effort.
April 1st, 2021
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What a New Nurse Can Expect in the First Month on the Job
A new nurse’s first month on the job can be exciting and perilous, so it’s important that they, and their new employer, take a deliberate approach to those crucial early days of onboarding.
April 1st, 2021
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The ABCs of Credentialing & Life Support Certifications
HealthStream covers why it is an important that health care staff and credentialing professionals learn about establishing requirements for basic life support.
April 1st, 2021
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11 Clinical Privileging Best Practices
Peruse our review of best practices related to defining and formatting clinical privileges from AI to mentoring in internal medicine, from HealthStream.
April 1st, 2021
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What Does Successful Patient Access Training Look Like?
Patient Access training needs to go beyond basic orientation to match roles and individual aptitude in the effort to meet client needs. A best practice is to use trainee test scores and to determine the subjects where more focused time should be spent to best serve the client’s needs.