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Understanding Hospice Care, from Stages to Cost
HealthStream helps you to understand hospice care, including its different stages, treatments modalities, the levels of care, and the associated costs.
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World Mental Health Day Means Time to Check in with Yourself
World Mental Health Day is the perfect time to take a look at the stressors in our lives and put in place some plans to lower that anxiety.
April 1st, 2021
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Celebrity HIPAA Breaches Affirm the Importance of Healthcare Compliance Training
HIPAA violations include large-scale data privacy breaches through cyberattacks as well as insider threats like celebrity information privacy violations by employees. Healthcare compliance training needs to address them all.
April 1st, 2021
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What Are the Options for Treating Opioid Addiction?
Opioid addiction is an unfortunate, common, and often tragic reality across the U.S. population. It’s important to know the options for treating addiction in case someone close to you needs help with overcoming this serious problem.
April 1st, 2021
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Optimize Community Awareness Efforts During Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Use National Breast Cancer Awareness Month to educate and inform staff and patients alike about the risks, research and preventive measures around breast cancer.
April 1st, 2021
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Code Of Conduct In Healthcare For Compliance
The code of conduct in healthcare is the cornerstone of any healthcare organization's compliance program and is an essential component of the institution's culture.
April 1st, 2021
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Do You Have a Transition Plan for Your Health System or Medical Group?
All healthcare organizations go through changes in resources, especially involving leaders. What can be done to reduce the stress during this period? Setting up processes and ensuring everyone complies with them can help.
April 1st, 2021
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Utilize Malnutrition Awareness Week To Assess Community & Patient Engagement Strategies
Malnutrition Awareness Week is the perfect time for providers to assess when, and how, they probe a patients’ ability to obtain nutritious food, as well as explore community resources to help fill that need if necessary.
April 1st, 2021
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What Are the Levels of Hospice Care?
Patients in hospice care may need differing hospice levels of care, as the impact of disease progresses or their health condition worsens. Every type of hospice care is appropriate when an illness is not responding to medical attempts to cure it or to slow the disease's progress.
April 1st, 2021
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Critical Thinking Development in Healthcare
AI has the potential to help healthcare really understand their clinicians’ critical thinking ability. In the article from which this post is taken, HealthStream’s Associate VP for Clinical Staff Development, Christie Kerwan, spoke about what AI tools offer for clinical development.
April 1st, 2021
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Palliative Care Vs. Hospice Care—How They Differ
Palliative care and hospice care are often mentioned together, which can lead to confusion about what each one entails. Lack of knowledge, especially about palliative care, may hamper the many benefits of these services for those who most need them.
April 1st, 2021
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A Nine Step Process for Standardizing Privileges in a Health System
There are many reasons to standardize privileges across all medical staffs—improved program management, compliance, alignment with contemporary clinical practice, and to manage clinical competence. Here’s how a typical project to standardize privileges may proceed successfully.
April 1st, 2021
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The Essentials for an Effective Onboarding Program for New Nurses
Assessing and developing nurses for the ability to think critically has never been more important. This article and excerpt focus on education focused on critical thinking and its interplay with learning and assessment technology.
April 1st, 2021
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Celebrate Revenue Integrity Week with New Strategies to Boost Revenue Cycle Integrity and Performance
Join HealthStream and our partner nThrive in celebrating Revenue Integrity Week by incorporating these seven new strategies to boost revenue cycle integrity and performance in healthcare.
April 1st, 2021
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Why Employees Leave Healthcare Jobs for Better Work-Life Balance
Healthcare jobs can make the flexibility demands of a modern life too difficult to manage, unless they are paying attention to unhappy employees and giving them some options to adjust such components as schedules, travel demands, and commute issues.
April 1st, 2021
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How To Create & Manage A Comprehensive Coding Audit
A comprehensive coding audit requires thoughtful preparation, including identifying its goals and scope, in order to achieve the desired results.
April 1st, 2021
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When Poor Management is the Reason a Healthcare Employee Leaves
To have an impact on healthcare turnover, organizations should ensure that their managers are doing a good job and treating their direct reports fairly. In many cases, it’s true that people don’t leave companies as often as they leave managers.
April 1st, 2021
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Think About Accountability to Improve Healthcare Employee Engagement
Creating a culture where employees own their own accountability can create higher levels of engagement and satisfaction.
April 1st, 2021
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Use National LGBT Health Awareness Week To Address Disparities In Care
National LGBT Health Awareness Week is the ideal time to review policies and procedures in place—as well as appropriate training—for treating this large, diverse, and at-risk community with compassion and respect.
April 1st, 2021
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Healthcare HR Week Salutes the Important Work of Healthcare Human Resources Professionals
Healthcare HR Professionals Week has arrived, and that means it’s a great time to look at how HR supports every aspect of the HR workplace — and discover ways to help these hardworking professionals deliver comprehensive, successful solutions for workplace training and development.