Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

For God’s sake , get UP !” The nurse thrust me up, yanking me off the floor; I was hanging just by the whim of my hollow, spindly armpits. If you don’t eat, you’ll keep ending up on the floor, and quite frankly, I don’t have the time or care for the extra paperwork. the nurse bellowed close into my ear. I felt hideous.

Admissions

Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Show Summary Would you like to hear insight based on decades of experience, both advising applicants to a variety of healthcare programs and working in admissions offices for, again, many different healthcare programs? He discusses the admissions process for healthcare programs. Chuck, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [2:29]

Admissions

Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Show Summary In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, host Linda Abraham interviews Dr. Jeffrey SooHoo, Assistant Dean for Admissions at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. SooHoo emphasizes the competitive nature of medical school admissions and the holistic review process used to evaluate applicants.

Admissions

NHA Now

MAY 13, 2020

Work with IDS pharmacists to set up and operationalize new clinical trials Monthly billing and payroll activities. Compound and dispense protocol specific medications following institutional and sponsor specific procedures. Drip rounds - titration monitoring and calculations. Order and maintain protocol specific to inventory.

Hospital

CareerStep

MAY 27, 2024

Working in a hospital pharmacy may involve going on rounds with the doctor or medical students if the particular hospital does rounds, according to Jesie Davenport , CPhT, pharm tech academic lead, and instructor. Institutional, or hospital pharmacy, involves less public interaction.

Huddles/Rounds

Setting Sights

DECEMBER 31, 2022

But, we will never experience those great life lessons, if we never show up to stuff. I had dawdled, in somewhat a deep, drifting thought, up to the muddy cornfields behind the house, crops not yet budded, streaks of morning grey and damp brown for miles up ahead. Only I could roll the blinds up if I wanted to see the sunlight.

Follow-Up

Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

The cost depends on the team, features, functionalities, and the time required to wrap up the development process. Physicians and hospital staff are surrounded by multiple responsibilities such as attending to patients, examining lab results, reassuring families, rounding on patients, and more. It acts just like an alarm clock.

Transfers

Walker Info - Patient Experience

APRIL 4, 2022

Helping the rest of the organization shift its mindset to being truly engaged and all-in for customers requires it to move up the Hierarchy of Engagement. Come up with a good name and logo to represent your customer experience initiative. Ensure there’s good data and share it. Launch the program and name it.

Follow-Up

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

OCR stepped up enforcement of compliance with the HIPAA Rules in 2016, more than doubling the number of financial penalties imposed. The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR.

HIPAA

Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. I came to her room for rounds in the morning. ” Seizing the interruption before I turned this into a full-blown therapy session, I got up and brought the tray over to her desk.

Discharges

Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

She meets her existing patients and picks up a new one, Bill. He was a direct admission after an electrophysiologic (EP) study. They found a medication that made it harder to induce VT and sent him up to the medical floor for admission and monitoring with instructions to initiate that medication.

Billing

Accepted Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

If you are more of a kinesthetic learner, then time spent on hospital rounds will be a great way to reinforce concepts. In medical school, it is often up to you to decide how best to spend your time. You might want to ask yourself the following questions: Do you see yourself in primary care? Use your time wisely.

Medication

Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Welcome to the 540th episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Whether you are applying to a niche, innovative graduate program or more traditional one, the challenge at the heart of admissions is showing that you both fit in at your target schools and are a standout in the applicant pool. Thanks for joining me. My pleasure.

Admissions

Setting Sights

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I guess the tolls and burdens of the last two years had finally crept up on me, and whilst I was at least out of those hospital walls for the first time in nearly two years, I was also completely on my own, with nobody to help me justify my new surroundings, the anxious feelings, or resolve them, for that matter.

Follow-Up

Accepted Blog

AUGUST 12, 2024

The 2025 ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) application follows on last year’s restructured application, with a few changes. The AAMC site describes the various Primary Focus Areas as follows: Basic science (e.g., The AAMC site describes the various Primary Focus Areas as follows: Basic science (e.g.,

Admissions

Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

But, my colleagues’ wellbeing isn’t hanging in the balance just because of the taboo that comes with opening up on their mental health struggles, or that there is little time to address it on top of the day-to-day work pressures – it’s hanging in the balance because we are simply not supported full-stop.

Admissions

Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

I was determined this was going to be the year everything went back to normal, where everything got better and by some small miracle, my luck would be on the up. I had been left again, slipped from any system of follow-up or overseeing care. But it only plunged downhill , and all very steeply. But I had collapsed.

Medication

Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The types of activities that you include, the length of time you participated in them, and your description of these events all have an impact on how admissions committees will view your dedication to this career path. What if you can’t come up with 15 activities? What if you end up with more than 15 activities?

Admissions

Practice Index

APRIL 17, 2025

The practice, which employed ten members of staff, including one GP, closed suddenly in July last year following the initial bankruptcy order. During March, nearly 47,000 patients waited for longer than 12 hours in emergency departments before admission. She now faces restrictions on her financial activities for seven years.

Huddles/Rounds

Practice Index

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Weekly data had shown a 70% increase in hospital admissions for flu in the preceding week. National medical director, Professor Sir Stephen Powis, said: Were pleased to have seen bookings for flu and COVID-19 jabs surge by 124% following worrying figures published yesterday about a tidal wave of seasonal viruses affecting hospitals.

Huddles/Rounds