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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

We wait for the test results. We wait to be discharged. ” If you’re waiting to be discharged from the hospital, what time you’ll be able to leave is anyone’s guess since one hand often doesn’t know what the other hand is doing. healthcare quality since the survey began in December 2019.”

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

It’s also an enormous stress test of the [health care] system. And with any stress test, you see where the limits are in what you have been building to-date,” he humbly confessed. In the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals want patients to be (appropriately) discharged home from hospital as soon as possible.

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Health@Retail Update: Kroger and Hy-Vee Morph Grocery into Health, Walmart’s Health Center, CVS/housing and More

Health Populi

Dieticians also test for various metrics via a blood sample from a finger prick, checking cholesterol and glucose, along with blood pressure and BMI. In addition to providing over-the-counter meds and other products, the in-hospital shop will deliver patients’ orders to the bedside before they are discharged home.

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What I Read This Week

Sensible Medicine

The researchers looked at every patient that had mammograms between 2004 and 2019 and developed breast cancer. We so desperately need RCT data for our screening tests. We should not conclude that patients should be started on 3-4 new meds prior to discharge. So why does this article not make me more bullish on mammography?

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SWAT RNs: Supporting Bedside Leaders with Clinical Judgment

Minority Nurse

Hence, the SWAT RN is a nursing role that is instrumental in the promotion of the nursing process and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s 2019 Clinical Judgment Measurement Model within the acute care setting, as they work collaboratively with bedside nurse leaders to facilitate positive patient outcomes. and HgB- 7.2

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New HIPAA Regulations in 2022-2023

The HIPAA Journal

The CARES Act was passed by Congress on March 27, 2020, to ensure that every American has access to the care they need during the COVID-19 pandemic and to address the economic fallout from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19. The process of making HIPAA updates is slow, as the lack of HIPAA changes in 2019, 2020, and 2021 has shown.

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