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Mitigate Risk and Protect Your Organization: Automating Policy Management and Conflict of Interest Disclosure

Technology and automation can help your organization accurately and efficiently manage processes for policy and procedure management as well as conflict of interest disclosures. Both processes are complex and fraught with potential errors that can result in litigation or fines. HealthStream can help make both processes more efficient and less vulnerable to risk.

October 28, 2022

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Building Psychological Safety and Belonging in Your Unit

Psychological safety and belonging matter to nurses. Building a sense of psychological safety and belonging can improve retention, engagement and satisfaction and build a strong, creative team. Healthy work environments produce better outcomes for nurses, patients and the organization. HealthStream and AACN have partnered together to offer solutions that will help leaders create the kind of work environments where nurses will want to work.

October 20, 2022

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Top 10 terrific things that caring people say after pregnancy and reproductive loss

October is Infant death awareness month so we are looking to highlight the resources we have to support.

October 20, 2022

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Healthcare Policy Management: Automation Solutions

Automating policy management is the best way to achieve compliance and ensure that your staff have access to the very latest regulations. HealthStream’s Policy Manager helps you put the most current policies and procedures in the hands of your organization’s frontline staff. It can save hundreds of hours per year for the average healthcare organization and provides the kind of reporting that can make visits from regulators and accrediting bodies more efficient.

October 19, 2022

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Removing Barriers to EMS Training

The elimination of the NREMT’s restrictions on distributive learning can help make EMS training faster and more cost-efficient for your organization which still meeting your accreditation requirements. HealthStream’s EMS program is a comprehensive solution to your EMS training needs.

October 18, 2022

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Fostering Mental Well-Being Amongst Your Emergency Department Staff

The threat of verbal and physical assault on ED staff continues to grow, creating a dangerous environment for nurses and other providers. Protection of the physical and mental health of ED providers should be on the radar screen of all healthcare leaders. HealthStream, in partnership with ENA and Psych Hub, have great tools that can help build a better understanding of mental health while helping providers to develop self-care strategies that will help them to provide high quality care in the ED that is safe for both patients and their providers.

October 17, 2022

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Overcoming Medical Group Turnover with a Solid Credentialing and Enrollment Process and Supporting Software

Turnover is expected in any industry, but within the healthcare industry, it can be tough to manage. Learn how the right tool, like CredentialMyDoc, can foster business continuity when turnover happens.

October 11, 2022

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Privileging 101 - Introduction to Privileges: Back to Basics - Physicians

Our Privileging 101 Series covers it all, from basic education on the history and fundamentals of clinical privileging to how to navigate all the regulatory and legal aspects involved. Part 1 provides an overview of the journey physicians must complete before they can apply for privileges.

October 04, 2022

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Electronic Health Records – A solution for patients, healthcare providers, and healthcare organizations

HealthStream has solutions that can help your organization make the most of your EHR. Learn how to use the data that you already have to optimize efficiency, quality, safety, scheduling, and your revenue cycle.

September 13, 2022

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Life Amid COVID: Efficiency Impacts on Provider Enrollment and Credentialing

The shift to remote work in the worst times of COVID forced quick adaptation to new processes, from a technological and employee management perspective.

September 07, 2022

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Building Back Your Workforce in Healthcare’s New Norm

HealthStream can help you and your organization with tools that will help build a strong and resilient workforce. The tools can help with rapid, high-quality onboarding and help your organization to demonstrate a commitment to your nursing staff.

September 06, 2022

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Rapid Onboarding and Retention for New Hires

Having a great onboarding process can help you and your organization improve the quality of patient care, reduce risk and improve retention. You can have a great onboarding process by focusing on what matters – ensuring that your nursing staff are confident, competent and ready to consistently and safely apply their clinical knowledge and judgement.

September 01, 2022

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When and How Should Case Logs be Used to Document Competency

Some hospitals and health systems require documentation of a certain number of admissions or consultations prior to granting privileges. Discover when and how case logs should be used to document competency.

August 26, 2022

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The Importance of Evidence-Based Content

Nurses can use Google, YouTube or Tik Tok, but Dynamic Health offers a fast, safe alternative that provides point-of-care access to clinical decision support tools. These tools ensure that when nurses need it, evidence-based information will be readily available to them. With HealthStream and Dynamic Health, your organization can trust that nurses are relying on information that has been rigorously reviewed to ensure that it reflects current best practices.

August 23, 2022

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Phase 3 Regulations – Ready or Not!

Surveyors will begin using Phase 3 guidance to identify non-compliance on October 24, 2022. You and your facility can get ahead of these new regulations by better understanding what is required and implementing programs that will ensure that your next survey finds your facility in full compliance.

August 12, 2022

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Goodbye, Binders! The Better Checklist Experience

Binders and paper records are a poor solution for standardizing and validating skills. HealthStream’s award-winning Checklist Management can help your organization with a solution that is reliable, customizable, and cost-effective and will also contribute to consistent, high-quality care for your patients.

August 09, 2022

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Tools, Teams, and Training: Revisioning Critical Components of Resuscitation Care

ReVitalPro and CodeBlueIQ have been designed for and by users. They are mobile, easy-to-use solutions that require little training and provide critical decision support at the point-of-care. The tools also provide a comprehensive and accurate patient record and data that is essential for performance debriefs, patient safety, quality management and improvement efforts, Joint Commission/CMS adherence, and focused training, as well as billing/revenue capture.

August 09, 2022

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Preparing your Obstetrical Staff for High-Risk, Low-Frequency Emergencies

Education is perhaps the most important part of the solution when addressing maternal and child outcomes. Using HealthStream’s Maternal Child Nursing Care Solution provides the kind of education that can build confidence and competence in your nursing staff even when they are faced with a low-incidence, high-risk obstetrical emergency.

August 02, 2022

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Understanding Medical Staff to Provider Ratios

Understanding the medical staff to provider ratio continues to be a trending topic within the industry. We dive into what variables and factors determine and influence these staffing ratios.

July 28, 2022

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Preparing for a Career as a Hospice Nurse

Hospice nursing can be extraordinarily gratifying and there is no denying its importance in the continuum of care, so helping nurses with the right tools to best care for their patients and the families of their patients is crucial to providing optimal end-of-life support. These kinds of tools are also critical to those healthcare organizations providing hospice care as they can help leaders manage credentialing and scheduling while providing the kind of specialized education that is critical to the delivery of safe and compliant hospice care.

July 26, 2022