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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

Doctors see patients in rushed 15-minute appointments, often without a cursory physical exam. We can ask ourselves how patients are greeted in our facility, whether it’s an outpatient provider office or an acute care hospital ER. We stare at our computer screens and fail to make eye contact.

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5 Business Ideas for an Enterprising NP

Minority Nurse

We find NPs in acute care, family practice, cardiology , neurology, and all clinical settings. Circumventing long waits for appointments and the bureaucracy of traditional medical practices, concierge patients pay out of pocket for the convenience of easy access to care.

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Top 4 Service Recovery Strategies for Turning Feedback Into Action

Relias

Healthcare providers are no strangers to service challenges missed appointments, long wait times, communication breakdowns, or billing confusion are part of the everyday operational landscape. But in a patient-first world, its not the mistake that defines your organization its how you recover from it.

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Can EHRs Expand to Become Health Systems’ “Platform of Platforms” (UDHPs)?

The Healthcare Blog

1) EHRs Currently Own the Customer Relationship Fueled by federal HITECH incentives and mandates, health systems have made significant investments in their existing EHRs: As of 2021, 96% of non-federal acute care hospitals in the U.S. had adopted a certified EHR. Many existing clinical workflows are built on EHRs.

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Primary care news round-up (7th to 13th November 2024)

Practice Index

Appointment satisfaction growing According to an Office for National Statistics survey, patient satisfaction with practice appointment systems is rising steadily. Primary care is facing record demand, with millions more appointments than before the pandemic.”

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5 Women Nursing You Need to Know About Today

Scrubs

She was appointed the RCN Northern Ireland director in 2019 when nurses were about to go on strike. Like many of my nursing colleagues, I started out my nursing career in the acute care setting hospital after my baccalaureate program,” Adole said of her journey into philanthropy. to increase nurse wages.

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Covenant Health Cyberattack Affecting New England Hospitals

The HIPAA Journal

Covenant Health is working to provide healthcare services as normal, and there has been little impact on its post-acute care facilities, as they operate on different systems. Patients have been advised to keep their appointments. The website of St.