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How to Improve Mental Health in Senior Care

While older adults may be different from other populations in terms of their general physical health, they are similar to the general population in that they suffer from mental illness at roughly the same rate as younger cohorts. Educating providers is the strategic foundation for treating mental illness in the aging population – create a workforce that will recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness in their older patients and equip them with the best therapeutic interventions for this population.

June 14th, 2022

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Cultivating Personal and Professional Growth – The Importance to Revenue Cycle Growth

Cultivating personal and professional growth is a key strategy in the management and growth of your organization’s revenue cycle. Investing in education will help ensure that the investments made in revenue cycle technology pay off. Investing in education for your revenue cycle team can help save money on reimbursement issues and reduce employee turnover.

June 13th, 2022

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A Nurse Walks Into a Hospital… Rapid Onboarding With Jane®

Onboarding with Jane® is a smart solution that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to create a personalized education plan and measure competency across knowledge and critical judgement domains.

June 6th, 2022

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Get Ahead of the Policy-Reinforce Quality Maternal Care

Quality OB is a data-driven, highly interactive solution that can help your organization get out ahead of new policies while reinforcing the latest science in obstetrical medicine. More importantly, Quality OB is a proven tool. Providing competency-based OB modules that focus on high-risk patient safety issues can actually decrease obstetrical claims as evidenced by a lower percentage of OB risk claim identifiers.

June 2nd, 2022

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Duties and Responsibilities of an Ambulatory Nurse

Healthcare leaders need successful strategies to attract, retain and challenge ambulatory care nurses. They need solutions that will help them address clinical competency as well as quality and compliance and the basics of scheduling and capacity management. HealthStream has solutions that can help you create the kind of ambulatory care environment that will be attractive to your patients, physicians and employees.

May 23rd, 2022

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Ready for a smarter, safer way to monitor your workforce?

Keeping up with your changing workforce and the evolving regulatory landscape is a tall order. We get that. That’s why we built Workforce Validate. From initial onboarding to ongoing monitoring, with Workforce Validate, you can be sure each member of your staff and vendors are clear to be on the floor.

May 18th, 2022

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Advances in Resuscitation Training with HCA and the American Red Cross

American Red Cross Resuscitation SuiteTM is the most flexible resuscitation training program in healthcare. The American Red Cross is committed is to driving improvement in resuscitation quality, to lowering costs, and improving accessibility to training. In addition, the flexible and adaptive nature of the program results in a faster, more efficient journey to competence.

May 15th, 2022

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Onboarding: Designing the optimal journey from orientation to productivity in healthcare

Orientation and onboarding are critical steps in ensuring retention and engagement but getting it right can be difficult. HealthStream has resources to help newly hired staff make a real connection to your organization.

May 13th, 2022

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Your Guide to Mastering Professional and/or Peer References

Credentialing providers involves evaluating professional and peer references, which must be obtained from a suitable source to be effective.

May 11th, 2022

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Are we headed towards a risk tsunami?

In order to minimize an organization’s risk from the coming risk tsunami, healthcare leaders need to be able to embrace innovative and multi-modal educational tools and new ways of thinking about how to rapidly onboard employees.

April 12th, 2022

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Need to Know Facts About Credentialing, Privileging, and Enrollment for FQHC Executive Leadership

If you’re a leader of Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), it’s important to know the ins and out of the credentialing, privileging and enrollment requirements your organization must adhere to. In this post, we outline the facts you need to know.

March 29th, 2022

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How to hit all your revenue cycle goals in 2022

Education matters to employees and it is essential to the revenue cycle process. An essential step in meeting revenue goals is personalized education based on the learner’s role and educational needs. Education can reduce errors, streamline the revenue process and protect the bottom line.

March 15th, 2022

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Developing competencies that address societal impacts on cardiovascular health

It is important to develop the kinds of strategies and skills that help healthcare providers address the societal impacts on cardiovascular disease management. Technology and education can help us address gaps in care and treatment and help better educate providers.

March 9th, 2022

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Credentialing Residents and Fellows

To remain in compliance, our industry experts explain the definitions and credentialing requirements set by the Joint Commission for organizations that teach residents and fellows.

February 22nd, 2022

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ShiftWizard Celebrates Record Customer Growth

In nursing, shift management involves the right balance between people and patients and quality of care. Developed by nurses, ShiftWizard’s nurse scheduling software helps with communication and reporting. Learn how ShiftWizard’s 99.99% technical uptime performance and increased R&D investments in 2021 are contributing to record customer growth.

February 11th, 2022

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Provider Validate by HealthStream Supports the Transfer of Provider Data to Aid in Improving the Quality of Patient Care

Provider Validate, available in the App Orchard, allows Epic users to add external referring providers to their master provider database - directly from Hyperspace.

February 8th, 2022

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Six Professional Goals for Nurse Managers

Prioritizing personal and professional goals can be difficult for nurse leaders, but maintaining and improving clinical and managerial skills is essential. Prioritize these six goals to maintain focus on those skills while modeling personal and professional growth for nurses on your team.

December 15th, 2021

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From Commitments to Competitive Advantage: Implementing a GRC Framework

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) affects nearly every department within a hospital or healthcare system. GRC is vitally important to complying with regulation, adequately assessing risk, and ensuring policies and procedures are followed enterprise-wide. Learn more about what needs to consider prior to implementing a GRC strategy at your organization.

December 1st, 2021

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Setting SMART Goals as a Charge Nurse

The optimal way to create a SMART goal is to look at the big picture and then establish an attainable process for getting there. Having the right resources and using a disciplined approach that includes the right kinds of learning tools and people performance solutions can help ensure that your professional goals are achieved.

November 23rd, 2021

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Age-Specific Competencies: What are They and How to Manage Them

Training and measurement around age-specific competencies should be a part of your competency measurement program. Use the right tools to ensure that providers understand the needs of patients at every age and stage of life. Also, use tools that will help your organization’s leaders know whether or not your team is providing the best in age-specific care.

November 19th, 2021

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