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Q&A with Brandi Zevenbergen: How Privilege has Improved with Smart Logic

CredentialStream's Privilege module has a new feature that uses smart logic to optimize process efficiency, with the end result of giving patients quality care.

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Importance of assessing competency throughout your professional journey

In the demanding world of healthcare, nurses play a pivotal role in providing safe and efficient care. To meet the highest standards, nurses must possess a diverse range of competencies. However, with healthcare constantly evolving, nurses must adapt and acquire new skills. Regular competency assessments become the compass guiding nurses towards growth, ensuring they remain confident and competent in their roles.

May 18th, 2023

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Improving Efficiency in Education - Help Offset Labor Shortages and Rising Costs

Administrative burden represents a large amount of time for front-line caregivers. Mandatory education is only a small piece of that burden, but can still cause significant impact on the efficiency of staff. HealthStream’s SafetyQ incorporates both micro-learning courses as well as adaptive-learning paths that can help reduce seat time and increase the efficiency of front-line staff while still helping to ensure that your organization is compliant with federal requirements and able to incorporate industry best practices. In addition, users will find SafetyQ available in a wide range of patient care settings. Reach out to HealthStream for a SafetyQ demo today.

May 18th, 2023

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Scheduling the Right Staff Every Time with Machine Learning

You can help eliminate the stress of the last-minute scramble to find coverage and positively impact your team’s satisfaction by scheduling the right number of staff, every time. Using the power of machine learning, Predictive Census gives your team the ability to accurately predict long-term volume forecasts to determine proper shift coverage and create a better data-driven schedule up to 120 days in advance. Plus, short-term projected census guides staffing adjustments within 7 days of a shift to ensure the right team members are scheduled for the projected patient volume. If you want to learn more about ShiftWizard or schedule a demo, HealthStream can help get your organization started on a path toward more efficient and cost-effective scheduling today.

May 17th, 2023

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Achieving PTAP with Distinction: A Residency Conversation with INTEGRIS Health and Salinas Valley Health

Achieving PTAP with Distinction can be a complex journey without the proper tools. HealthStream’s Residency Program can help support your organization on this journey. Contact HealthStream for a demo today.

May 16th, 2023

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Flexible scheduling system can help HR leaders improve staff retention

Discover how HealthStream's Flexible Scheduling System can boost staff retention. Learn strategies to improve HR leadership and create a more resilient healthcare workforce

May 3rd, 2023

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Meet The Gen Z Worker: A New Generation Enters the Workforce

There’s a new generational cohort that’s just beginning to enter the workforce, and like Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers before them, they are bringing with them their own unique goals, preferences, and ideals.

May 2nd, 2023

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Advancing Maternal Health Equity

Public reporting of maternity measures, “birthing-friendly” hospital designations, and federally mandated programs aim to drive change in the U.S.’s dismal outcomes on maternal health. Your organization can help move the needle on safe, high-quality, and equitable care for mothers and babies through evidence-based training.

April 25th, 2023

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Measuring the 6 Nursing Core Competencies

Developing and measuring nursing competency in 2020 requires a systematic and inclusive approach that embraces technology and requires accountability from learners and educators.

April 23rd, 2023

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Analyzing Physician Engagement - Physician Ratings of Admin Skills

In this article by Dr. Randy Carden, Senior Research Consultant, from the most recent issue of HealthStream's PX Advisor, we seek to answer two questions that have recently been posed to HealthStream by a client who participates in our physician satisfaction and engagement survey, Physician Insights.

April 21st, 2023

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Best Practices for Professional Practice Evaluation: Measure and Monitor Provider Performance

Learn industry-leading best practices healthcare systems can leverage to ensure quality and safety.

April 11th, 2023

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Preparing for the Surge in Onboarding Medical Assistants

The job of Medical Assistant is and is likely to continue to be one of the fastest-growing jobs in the U.S. As healthcare organizations find new ways to incorporate Medical Assistants into their organization to address staff shortages, it is important to find efficient and cost-effective ways to safely incorporate them into staffing solutions. That begins with Medical Assistant Orientation to help ensure that Medical Assistants in your organization are providing safe, consistent and high-quality care.

April 7th, 2023

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Achieving Efficiency in Student Clinical Placement

Clinical student placement can feel chaotic and inefficient for both students and administrators trying to manage the process, but it doesn’t have to. HealthStream’s myClinicalExchange is a streamlined and systematic process that can bring order and efficiency to your clinical placements. Most importantly, a more efficient placement and onboarding process can lead to safer, higher-quality care. It can also reduce the time and the cost associated with this process.

April 6th, 2023

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Evaluating the S.T.A.B.L.E. Difference in Educational Outcomes

Readiness for neonatal stabilization is important to both short and long-term neonatal outcomes. The S.T.A.B.L.E. program can have a positive impact on student scores and improve their confidence while in the NICU and is a great solution to minimize the impact of reduced clinical exposure to neonates during pediatric residency.

April 5th, 2023

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Top Five Trends in Senior Care

Addressing the complexities of caring for older patients is critical for healthcare leaders. HealthStream has resources to support leaders and providers with insights into those issues and solutions that help provide the best possible outcomes for these patients.

April 4th, 2023

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Introducing Workforce Validate – Work Smarter, Not Harder

Workforce Validate is a faster, easier, and more effective way to monitor workforce compliance. It can verify and flag concerns from hundreds of sources allowing leaders to take action before there is a risk to patients or the organization.

April 3rd, 2023

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Safe Staffing in Healthcare – Acuity vs. Ratios

Acuity-based staffing models can improve outcomes, staff satisfaction and financial performance, but require a technology solution to insure safe staffing. HealthStream’s Acuity and Assignment Manager can help leaders synthesize all of the required data to support an acuity-based staffing model.

April 3rd, 2023

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5 Reasons Why Lifelong Learning is Essential in Healthcare

Here are 5 strong reasons lifelong learning in nursing is a long term career need in healthcare to ensure that employees stay abreast of advances in healthcare.

March 31st, 2023

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Make Continuing Education in Healthcare Easy!

CE should be part of your organization’s strategy to attract, retain and develop nurses and allied health professionals. HealthStream’s CE Unlimited is a practical way to put robust, customizable clinical information in the hands of your clinical team. It can also mean significant savings in costs and administrative time and effort for your organization.

March 30th, 2023

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Align Staffing to Patient Demand with Acuity and Assignment Manager

HealthStream’s Acuity and Assignment Manager can help your organization with one of the most critical issues faced by healthcare leaders today – staffing. By aggregating the data that you already have, this solution can help ensure that you have all of the information you need to provide optimal care to patients while supporting staff with equitable assignments based on objective, real-time data.

March 28th, 2023

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