Practice Index

JANUARY 9, 2025

Last week, the latest data showed the number of flu patients in hospital quadrupling over the holiday. The post Primary care news round-up (2nd January to 8th January 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. NHS England said 211 patients were in critical care.

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Scrubs

MAY 11, 2023

“We’re hopeful that our presence here will keep nurse appreciation top of mind year-round, alongside continuing efforts that push for nurse well-being.” This is a win-win for hospitals and nurses alike – nurses can work when and where they want, and hospitals get increased access to nurses to appease some of their shortages.”

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Scrubs

AUGUST 21, 2023

CT/X-ray/ultrasound machines would only be across the hall, not on the other side of the hospital. Physicians would round on their patients all at predicted/scheduled times. The elevator would open promptly every time you need it (especially during patient transport!). Nobody would be confused or delirious.

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Mobius MD

MARCH 14, 2025

While we often focus our blog articles on streamlining clinical documentation , managing the deluge of messages in your EHR is equally important. A recent study found that primary care physicians in a Massachusetts hospital spent an average of 36 minutes per visit using the EHR , with nearly 8 minutes dedicated to the EHR inbox.

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Scrubs

APRIL 25, 2023

With my clinical experience, plus my work in the emergency room at Yale New Haven Hospital, I just reacted,” Davies said. The providers did three rounds of compressions and AED administration when the man’s pulse finally came back. She quickly jumped into action when she saw him lying on the ground.

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Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

Jefferson Health, which operates 18 hospitals throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, recently announced it is using the Nurse Emeritus Program to keep retired nurses engaged. She said the program is already paying off at hospitals around the country by helping new RNs learn the skills they need to excel on the job.

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Scrubs

MARCH 24, 2023

The unfortunate thing was every time the nurses tried to remind him of why he was in the hospital (which he forgets about every 20 minutes), they had to deliver the sad news of the cancer and help him through the grief. My friend sprang into the room and called a staff emergency to round up any free hands. Over and over.

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Guideway Care

JULY 3, 2024

The healthcare industry attempts to enhance patient satisfaction in hospitals through the implementation of the 5 Ps of nursing rounding. The 5 Ps The five Ps in the model for nursing rounding are Pain, Position, Personal needs, Proximity, and Patient Education.

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Practice Builders

APRIL 11, 2025

More than 60% of adverse events in the hospital are due to communication errors. Multidisciplinary rounds in which all members of the care team contribute. Intrahospital communication refers to the exchange of information within a single hospital or healthcare facility. Patient safety is a top priority for healthcare experts.

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Practice Index

JULY 11, 2024

She said that more care should be moved from hospital to primary care and community services. The post Primary care news round-up (4th July to 10th July 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. I’m committed to reversing that.” The news was welcomed by primary care organisations.

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Practice Index

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We need to rebalance the system towards care in the community rather than adding more and more staff to hospitals.” Second, we’ve got to shift more care from hospitals to communities. The post Primary care news round-up (6th September to 11th September 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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Practice Index

MAY 23, 2024

This could involve refusing to write fit notes and sending prescriptions and investigations back to hospitals when the hospital has asked the practice to organise them. The post Primary care news round-up (16th May to 22nd May 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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Practice Index

AUGUST 29, 2024

We have found referrals have been repeatedly rejected by hospital teams – very often for bureaucratic reasons.” The post Primary care news round-up (22nd August to 28th August 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. NHS England says that pensioners are the most active users of the app.

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Practice Index

AUGUST 8, 2024

The NHS England projection is based on a 30% reduction in GP activity, leading to half a million extra hospital referrals. The post Primary care news round-up (2nd August to 8th August 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. The BMA has said the action will be a “slow burn” while talks continue with the Government.

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Practice Index

JULY 25, 2024

The letter warns that the Workforce Plan only proposes a 4% increase in the number of fully qualified GPs compared with a 49% increase in hospital consultants. The post Primary care news round-up (18th July to 24th July 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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Practice Index

MAY 16, 2024

NHS England said hospitals had faced a record April for emergency department attendances and admissions, but there were improvements to ambulance response times. The post Primary care news round-up (9th May to 15th May 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals. Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

So, at the time, the hospital had, I think we still do because that’s where I graduated from in 2021, Ashford, where you’ll go to school to further your education. So what I do with my team is I huddle with them. I huddle with my staff in the morning at the beginning of a shift. I obtained a master’s degree.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Mary Howard, DNP, RN, NEA-BC is the executive director of The Ohio State University East Hospital and is responsible for operations, strategic planning, and program development. I was placed at Columbus Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio as a junior nurse’s aide and progressed to become a senior nurse’s aide. Anthony Hospital).

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Developed by Ariadne Labs – a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard’s T.H. hospitals by the end of this year. After an initial feasibility trial at four sites in 2018, TeamBirth is on track to be integrated into more than 100 U.S.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JUNE 8, 2023

2] For years the physician group that filed suit (all board-certified hospitalists) had a direct contract with a hospital system. Under that contract, in exchange for a stipend, the group provided around-the-clock hospitalist services several of the system’s local hospitals.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Doctors used to take notes mostly in shorthand, leaving the abstraction of these notes for coding and billing purposes to be done by some poor sap in the basement of the hospital. Matthew Holt is the publisher of The Health Care Blog and one upon a time ran the Health 2.0 Conference

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

How AI can democratize and enchant health care – the WHO perspective In January 2024 I explored the World Health Organization’s report on Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health in my Health Populi blog. Further value could be realized by integrating Copilot into the EHR.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2024

Most hospitals and health departments prefer and only hire BS/BSN nurses,” says Bray. Nurses will seek “a curriculum focused on advancing your skills and knowledge to shape you into a well-rounded, culturally competent, critically compassionate nurse, a thoughtful, skilled communicator, and enhances your leadership skills,” says Bray.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 20, 2022

Observing Carter sharing his experience with local students during clinical rounds, an impressed faculty member urged him to add teaching to his skill-set. I worked at this hospital in San Francisco — California Pacific Medical Center — in a heart transplant unit. ” How did you get into teaching?

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Accepted Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Many have a semester or two of volunteering in a hospital playroom for a few hours a month. Volunteer at your local hospital or free clinic. See whether your local hospital offers an Elder Life Program. The AAMC says: “Most volunteer experiences are valuable and will provide you with well-rounded experiences.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2024

This second blog of the three is being edited just days after Andrew Witty’s testimony to the U.S. My personal lightbulb moment in the wisdom in this second round of our discussion was Richard’s over-arching question: “ How do we keep the individual’s information private, while leveraging that signal for the greater good?”

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Southern Careers Institute

OCTOBER 27, 2023

” In this blog, we’ll dive into the journey of becoming a medical assistant, highlighting the role of SCI’s program and the numerous ways it can help you achieve your goals. Medical assistants are the backbone of medical offices, clinics, and hospitals.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Share valuable articles and health tips with patients via a blog or social media. Demonstrate Care for Patients’ Health Nearly 700,000 people acquire infections during a hospital stay every year. Even white boards inside hospital rooms give patients and caretakers an opportunity to communicate with medical staff between rounds.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

He then did his residency in pediatrics at Harbor UCLA Medical Center and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. You signed up to go in the hospital and see patients. Then once you got in the hospital, you go, “Hey, this is really cool.” We talk about advocacy.

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Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And so they’re able to give you sort of more specific and nuanced feedback than maybe if you were just on their service in the hospital for a week or even less and didn’t have a relationship with that person. It also allows you to do the same thing with patients. It was a great overview, by the way.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 13, 2024

That is the non-profit hospital/health system sector. Having said that, most hospitals are frequently late in filing them, and file them in a very confusing way. Carolina hospital systems and found out that Atrium’s CEO pay went up nearly five-fold over six years. When I asked ChatGPT it estimated about 1.2

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Call for action on patients awaiting discharge The Government is under pressure to take action over thousands of patients stuck in hospital and waiting for discharge. It also shows about 20,000 patients being in hospital beds for longer than 21 days, with little sign of these numbers reducing.

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Practice Index

MARCH 20, 2025

Chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne said: If the Government is going to deliver on its manifesto commitment to move more care out of hospitals and into the community, GP involvement will be essential. The post Primary care news round-up (13th to 19th March 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

And what I mean by longitudinal is more than two summers of doing 10 weeks of summer research across an academic year or in a postgraduate situation where you’re doing maybe a year or two at the NIH or something at a hospital for a year or a year and a half. We’re in and out. Pediatrics, neurology.

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Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Now as a PhD student, I wound up working in a research project in biomedical engineering, but working in the department of Pediatrics and pediatric cardiology at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland at University Hospitals of Cleveland. I basically wound up going to grand rounds. There’s a network.

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Scrubs

MAY 29, 2023

After work, she came home and told her husband she needed to go to the hospital. “I The hospital sent her home and told her that her subdural hematoma would heal on its own, but she woke up the next day vomiting, so she called an ambulance back to the ER. “As a nurse, I knew what those signs were.”

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