For the healthcare workforce, millennials should be top of mind. Already the largest generational group in the workforce, they'll soon be the majority of all employees, exceeding 50% next year. For retention success, technology and organizations with social responsibility efforts are two key areas requiring focus.
National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week is a tailor-made opportunity to let teens learn more about the consequences of drug and alcohol abuse — and how they can avoid it or seek help if necessary.
Thyroid Awareness Month is a good time to explore the hard work that this little-known organ does, and how it can affect you if it is not functioning properly.
Here is a list of 3 ways nursing management can improve communication to quit overwhelming staff with information and contact, from HealthStream.
Learn the importance of understanding the intricacies and responses required for companies and people who encounter sexual abuse and harassment.
Here are 5 ways nurses as advocates for patients, themselves, their profession, and healthcare as a whole can be a great benefit to all involved.
Learn why a new public urgency has caused scrutiny of handling and stopping sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace.
Nurse engagement measures the degree to which a nurse is committed to their job, the organization for which they work, and the nursing profession as a whole. When nurses become disengaged, patient care can definitely suffer.
National Handwashing Awareness Week provides the opportunity to bone up on hand health and put into practice a quick and easy way to cut back on germ and virus transmission.
Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare workplace development can help organizations overcome some of the challenges holding back employees from achieving great outcomes.
World AIDS Day occurs Dec. 1, 2019 and is the perfect opportunity to assess what the healthcare community is doing around awareness, prevention, and treatment.
The International Day of Disabled Persons shows how much work needs to be done, both here and around the world, to ensure that everyone has access to, and inclusion within, public structures and activities.
Learn why it's a best practice to organize core privilege forms by specialty and certain components that typically should make up each specialty’s core privilege form.
National Influenza Vaccination Week is the time to separate fact from fiction when it comes to influenza, flu shots and how to stay healthy while also protecting those around us.
Delivering great care and achieving better outcomes requires the ability of healthcare professionals to communicate successfully and meaningfully with a patient’s family and other loved ones. Here are some guidelines for improved family communication.
The credentialing and privileging of telehealth providers is something many healthcare providers are still figuring out.
Healthcare can improve its approach to the opioid crisis by adopting a population health model. Looking at addiction and abuse as a chronic disease can change the treatment trajectory
Millions of Americans have type 2 diabetes, and millions more are at risk—that’s why education and awareness re the cornerstones of American Diabetes Month.
The recent decades of opioid abuse in the U.S. tells us that the crisis wasn’t just an accident and there are certain key lessons for the healthcare industry.
The history of opioid use in the United States, especially the recent decades of abuse, tells us that the crisis wasn’t just an accident. Decisions were made by individuals and corporations that led to our current state of calamity, with certain key lessons for the healthcare industry.
