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From ICU to Innovation: How Kim Gadiwalla is Rewiring Nursing Education—One Microlesson at a Time

Minority Nurse

Witnessing firsthand the compassionate care provided by nurses, especially during challenging moments such as hospice care, left an indelible impression on me,” she shares. She graduated from an accelerated BSN program with a mission forged years earlier: when her mother was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer.

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The CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule: What Healthcare Organizations Need to Know

Relias

Compliance requirements and best practices for emergency preparedness Compliance with the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule involves more than creating a plan it requires ongoing maintenance and documentation. Conduct gap analyses against CMS requirements and industry best practices.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys, Part 3: The Futures of Cybersecurity in Healthcare

Health Populi

Richard: Our healthcare system is a complex dance between Payers (Insurance Companies) and Providers (Doctors, Hospitals, and in the case of Amedisys – Home Health, Hospice, and Palliative Care.) What will ensure that health care organizations will play well in the cybersecurity sandbox with each other going forward?

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EEOC Issues Employer Guidance for COVID-19 Vaccinations and Religious Objections

Healthcare Law Insights blog

The EEOC recommends, as a best practice, that employers should provide employees and applicants with information about whom to contact and the procedures for requesting a religious accommodation. These same guidelines apply if an employee has a religious conflict with getting a particular brand of a vaccine.

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Background Checks for Healthcare Employees

The HIPAA Journal

For example, it is a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid that hospices conduct criminal background checks on all employees that have direct patient contact or access to patient records ( 42 CFR 418.114(d) ). There are also federal regulations that require background checks for healthcare employees.

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Get Accepted to the Washington University School of Medicine [Episode 595]

Accepted Blog

And the coaches also meet together and can talk to each other of learning how to best, what is the best practice for advising? I’m also a big believer, something even like hospice. If someone continues to be tardy, what is a good way to fix that? If you’re eyes wide open, you can see what’s going on.

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All You Need to Know about BU’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Accepted Blog

And the other thing is that it’s always good to, when you are mostly or solely in one hospital, there are practices that hospitals do not because they’re best practice necessarily, but because they’re habit or it’s the way that the hospital has always done it. 42:35] Yeah, no, it doesn’t matter.