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Friday Reflection 49: The Patients of 12 Reisman

Sensible Medicine

At the end of the month, she was well enough to be transferred to a sub-acute care facility. What currently passes as student mistreatment is laughable One day, just as morning rounds were beginning, my pager sounded with an outside number. I slept for the next 16 hours. I still don’t prescribe much cyclobenzaprine.

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

Practice Index

Reactionary” acute care is now increasing feelings of helplessness among these doctors. The post Primary care news round-up (7th to 13th November 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. The report suggests that improved mental health provision and improved access for patients might help to tackle this.

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The Benefits Of Taking A Break

Scrubs

It becomes fatigued after sustained use and needs a rest period before it can recover, he explains — much as a weight lifter needs rest before doing a second round of repetitions at the gym.” Ensuring you have the proper staffing levels in place is critical (#1), but making a commitment to changing the work environment is just as important.

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Nursing Leadership: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

Relias

Ensures that staff members are recognized for quality and promotes success in patient care. Maintains a physical presence through onsite visits, rounding, or huddles to provide direct support and appreciation.

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Irrational Exuberance for Hospital-To-Home? Care About the Caregivers, the House, the Fridge.

Health Populi

In our bullish and, on its face, compassionate and cost-rational embrace of the migration of acute care from hospital beds to peoples’ living and bedrooms, there are several guardrails to consider beyond sheer payment and reimbursement calculations. Home, Sweet Hospital-At-Home? .

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Meet Nancy Colobong Smith, American Nephrology Nurses Association’s President-Elect 2023-24

Minority Nurse

After being an assistant manager for several years, I realized that the parts of my role I enjoyed most were providing education, mentoring, clinical care, and improving systems.

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Is There an Easy-Button for AI In Healthcare Team Well-Being? Exploring a New PC with Embedded AI

Health Populi

With Epic in 38% of acute care hospitals (as of May 2024), their vision of democratizing and validating health AI will also help scale that easy-button for care. Further value could be realized by integrating Copilot into the EHR.