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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.
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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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Web-based, Hassle-free Credentialing and Enrollment Software for Growing Medical Practices
When it comes to credentialing and enrollment, you simply can’t afford to skip software made for the job!
March 28th, 2023
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Patient Safety In Nursing: The Nurse's Role
Learn how patient safety in nursing depends on understanding how and why we are treating patients and how that treatment affects our patients, from HealthStream.
March 24th, 2023
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7 Nurse Retention Strategies That You Can Use Now
Utilize these 7 nurse retention strategies from HealthStream to keep your healthcare employees happy and engaged with their work.
March 23rd, 2023
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Upcoming Changes to HIPAA – What You Need to Know Now
Some big changes to HIPAA are expected to be announced within the next few weeks. You can begin to prepare your organization now by familiarizing your team with the proposed new rule and training employees on how to comply with the updated requirements.
March 22nd, 2023
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An Innovative Integration for a Single Source of Truth
It’s time to take control of the way you and your team handle staffing decisions. By utilizing this innovative partnership with Workday and ShiftWizard™, you’ll be able to leverage your time and attendance data to make real-time, cost-effective productivity decisions.
March 22nd, 2023
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Optimize Competency While Reducing EMS Training Costs
Recent changes in regulations governing how and where EMS training is provided have paved the way for EMS organizations to optimize their team’s competency while also reducing their training costs.
March 21st, 2023
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How Nurse Leaders Can Ensure Fairness in Workforce Scheduling
Having an effective and healthcare-specific workforce scheduling system is an essential component to helping nurse leaders foster a fair and inclusive environment for their staff.
March 20th, 2023
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New Joint Commission Standards to Reduce Healthcare Disparities – What You Need to Know
The new Joint Commission standards will apply to acute care hospitals, ambulatory care, behavioral health, critical access hospitals, and human services organizations. Healthcare organizations can begin preparing to meet the new requirements now.
March 17th, 2023
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Reduce Credentialing and Provider Enrollment Timeframes with CredentialMyDoc™
Streamlining your credentialing and enrollment processes will deliver increased efficiency while allowing you to provide the best care possible. Here’s how CredentialMyDoc can help.
March 14th, 2023
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The Impact of Unconscious Bias on Healthcare
Unconscious bias often leads to false assumptions and negative outcomes for minority groups in the healthcare setting. We must focus on reducing the impact of unconscious biases on physician-patient interactions, which contributes to health disparities.
March 14th, 2023
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Acuity-based scheduling: A promising strategy for optimizing patient care
There are multiple variables to balance when constructing shift schedules for healthcare staff. One key factor for hospital managers to consider is patient acuity, and yet there is much discussion about how to consider it when making staffing decisions.
March 2nd, 2023
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Nurse Strikes are Scary, but License Verification Doesn’t Have to be
Nurse strikes are becoming more common. Learn how HR teams can expedite license verifications for temporary resources with Workforce Validate.
February 13th, 2023
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How to Use APIs in Healthcare Learning
You’ve likely heard that APIs can magically transform business, reduce waste, speed processes, and improve bottom lines. What does this mean for healthcare, and specifically for healthcare learning? Let’s explore the advantages of using APIs and some specific use cases to illustrate the wide variety of ways in which they can help transform your learning workflows.
February 8th, 2023
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What Today’s Provider Enrollment Professionals Are Saying About Provider Data Management
Medical Services Professionals (MSPs) throughout the country agree their jobs require a lot of diligence, attention to detail, and patience. We’re on a mission to provide MSPs with actionable data they can use to improve their processes. Here’s what today’s Provider Enrollment Professionals had to say about Provider Data Management in our annual survey.
January 31st, 2023
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Medical Fraud is on the Rise, Here's What to Watch Out For
Healthcare fraud, AKA false claims, is an expensive crime affecting individuals and healthcare organizations alike. Read about the risks and learn how to protect yourself with Workforce Validate.
January 26th, 2023
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Your Top 5 Privileging Questions Answered: Requirements, Procedures, and More
Privileging involves requirements amongst providers and health systems and involves defined medical staff policies and procedures. HealthStream answers the top questions to come out of our Privileging 101 webinar series here.
January 24th, 2023
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What does a home health care nurse do?
Home health nursing is one of the many career options available within the nursing profession. It is a choice for registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and nurse assistants (NAs). The educational requirements for a home health nurse are dependent on individual nursing certifications.