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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

We wait for the test results. We can ask ourselves how patients are greeted in our facility, whether it’s an outpatient provider office or an acute care hospital ER. One aspect of being a healthcare consumer that can be most maddening is the hours of time spent waiting for things to happen. We wait to see the provider.

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8 Reasons Why You Should Become a Nurse Practitioner

Minority Nurse

Each day, NPs provide comprehensive care to their patients by completing thorough assessments, ordering appropriate diagnostic tests, interpreting the results, and formulating treatment plans based on the findings. Greater Responsibility Nurse practitioners have greater responsibility in their daily practice.

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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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A Comprehensive Guide to Meaningful Use and EHR

Arkenea

Certified EHR are those that meet the standards defined by the certification and testing body. This includes exchanging EHR with healthcare workers for improving care and for issuing e-prescriptions. Hospitals are eligible if 10 percent of patients in the acute care facilities have Medicaid, and children’s hospitals.

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Friday Reflection 49: The Patients of 12 Reisman

Sensible Medicine

The neurology consultant recommended a lumbar infusion test to help make the diagnosis and to assess whether the patient would benefit from a ventricular shunt. As the intern, it was my responsibility to perform this test. He told me I could put the test off for a day or two until I was less busy and less tired.

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“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion

The Healthcare Blog

Failing the Test of Real World Plausibility It is difficult to know where to begin to unravel this complex web of associations. Though this proposition needs empirical testing, I believe that most communities would willingly trade a 1.2% The biggest puzzle is the magnification of impact of a 1.2% beds per thousand.

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Future-Proof Your Workforce: Post-Acute Care Reskilling and Upskilling

Relias

The speed of change in healthcare requires post-acute care organizations to take a different approach to job preparedness. Leaders in assisted living, skilled nursing, home health, rehab therapy, wound care, and hospice know you can’t hire all the skills your organization will need tomorrow and in the future.