Health Prime

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Conversely, constructive criticism or concerns voiced by patients shed light on areas where improvements may be needed, whether in communication, wait times, facility cleanliness, or other aspects of the patient’s experience.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 1, 2023

It should come as no surprise that doctors, fueled by a literature imbued with spin, tend to emphasize the pros rather than the cons of health treatments or tests when discussing them with their patients. Health communication is not neutral. We call this phenomenon “spin”, and it is widespread in medical literature.

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Medication Communication Tests 180

Serenity Nurse Aide Academy

DECEMBER 12, 2024

One of the most vital skills is effective communication with patients. Whether pursuing a role in patient care or administration, clear and empathetic communication makes a difference. In addition to communication, critical thinking is fundamental to all healthcare roles.

Medication 52

Medication Critical Thinking Communication Patient Care 52

Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

Among large employers who fell into the 28% of companies that thought DTC communication was indeed appropriate, acceptable topics for comms were medication side effects and indications of the drug. What wasn’t seen as acceptable topics for communicating DTC were patient assistance programs.

Communication 79

Communication Insurance Follow-Up Medication 79

EvidenceCare

MARCH 18, 2025

By replacing traditional pre-op visits with a digital experience, Kaiser not only improved efficiency but also reduced unnecessary testing and saved millions of dollars. Initially, the idea of eliminating pre-op visits faced skepticism, but careful testing and feedback led to a solution that worked for both clinicians and patients.

Hospital 130

Hospital Discharges Appointments Patient Safety 130

Mobius MD

MARCH 14, 2025

How to Take Control of Your EHR Inbox Whether your goal is to reclaim time or improve patient communication, these 14 tipsinspired by Jay Winner, MD will help. Standardized message templates can speed up replies to common inquiries, like prescription refills and test results.

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Serenity Nurse Aide Academy

APRIL 2, 2025

Phlebotomy plays a key role in healthcare, focusing on the collection of blood for medical testing, donations, and research. These abilities are critical for maintaining safety and achieving accurate test results in professional settings. In healthcare, trust, and communication are just as important as technical skills.

Tests 52

Tests Communication Patient Care Medication 52

Northwest Suburban College

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Effective communication is a crucial skill for medical assistants. Whether we are interacting with patients, doctors, or other healthcare team members, our ability to communicate clearly and effectively can significantly impact the quality of care. For a medical assistant, good communication starts with building rapport with patients.

Medical Assistant 52

Medical Assistant Communication Medication Listening Skills 52

MedQuest College

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As a sonographer, your demeanor and communication can help ease their concerns. – Patient Compliance: Building trust encourages patients to follow through with recommendations or additional testing. – Patient Compliance: Building trust encourages patients to follow through with recommendations or additional testing.

Diagnostics 59

Diagnostics Medication Communication Follow-Up 59

Sensible Medicine

APRIL 18, 2024

Seven of them tested positive for Covid and I suspect the eighth test was a false negative. It may interfere with communicating compassion and empathy and make patient interactions more fraught for it. I started seeing patients in a dedicated Covid clinic in April 2020 and we had no access to N95 masks. Enough with absolutes.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment. Quality assurance: Manual and automated testing, security audits, compliance checks. Conduct unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing.

Tests 52

Tests Communication Documentation Follow-Up 52

We Care Online

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

These disorders can affect a child’s ability to communicate effectively, impacting their social interactions, academic performance, and overall development. This struggle can lead to frustration and behavioral issues, as the child may find it hard to communicate effectively with others.

Communication 52

Communication Scheduling Tests 52

Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One place that I am skeptical is AI entering into the doctor/patient communication. The test characteristics of most data from the history is poor. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. If you appreciate our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. We covered an early, ingenious article by John W.

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Appointments Diagnostics Scheduling Follow-Up 271

Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Improve staff communication. Perhaps not surprisingly, they share a common element — they all depend on good communication practices at the organizational, team, and individual levels. Whether communicating with care team members or directly with patients, using two ways to confirm a patient’s identity must be embedded in your process.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Communication Teamwork Follow-Up 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Most health consumers expect providers to communicate about routine health care helping them track lab results, recommend and schedule preventive tests and screenings, text or online chat between appointments, and send reminders about taking medicines. Satisfaction outweighs loyalty.

Communication 125

Communication Patient Experience Scheduling Appointments 125

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This, plus convenience—no INR testing—has led to DOAC dominance of the market. The newer DOAC drugs have been compared to VKAs (warfarin or warfarin-like) in multiple trials with over 50K patients. These trials reveal clear DOAC superiority in stroke prevention and strong trends for less bleeding. And that is THE issue.

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Out-Patient Clinic Tests Communication Medication 254

ACI Medical & Dental School

APRIL 21, 2025

Phlebotomist Phlebotomists are trained healthcare professionals who draw blood from patients for tests, transfusions, donations, or research. These tests help doctors diagnose heart conditions such as arrhythmias or heart disease. Communicating with patients. Phlebotomy & EKG duties. Administering injections.

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Vital Signs Sterilization Medical Assistant Diagnostics 52

Scrubs

JANUARY 4, 2024

To accomplish this with precision and accuracy, nurses rely heavily on their vision to assess, monitor, and communicate with patients. It is also especially crucial nowadays, as technology further advances and more comprehensive eye tests are becoming more common.

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Tests Follow-Up Appointments Scheduling 147

Serenity Nurse Aide Academy

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CNA training in North Carolina equips trainees with the practical skills needed to assist patients with daily activities, monitor vital signs, and communicate with medical staff. This role involves drawing blood for tests, transfusions, and donations, requiring precision and patient interaction skills.

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Certified Nursing Assistant Vital Signs Long Term Care Medical Assistant 52

Prism Career Institute

MAY 6, 2025

Aiding a physician: A medical assistant helps reduce a physician’s workload by cleaning treated or wounded areas, drawing blood, performing electrocardiogram (EKG) and other medical tests, preparing collected lab samples, or removing stitches. This helps to keep them informed of the latest medical practices and procedures.

Medical Assistant 52

Medical Assistant Medication Follow-Up Medical History 52

We Care Online

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In addition, telehealth can facilitate more frequent communication between patients and providers, improving health outcomes. Conditions that require in-depth physical examinations or diagnostic tests may still necessitate an in-person visit, which can reduce the overall convenience of telehealth for certain patients.

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Follow-Up Appointments Physical Exams Vital Signs 72

Mobius MD

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Enhancing the patient experience includes improving healthcare equity, access to care, communication, and patient outcomes and safety. Use pre-visit planning and pre-appointment lab testing to reduce time wasted on the review of follow-up results.

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Documentation Medical Assistant Patient Experience Patient Satisfaction 59

We Care Online

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Improved Patient Engagement Platforms such as patient portals and mobile apps enable patients to actively participate in their healthcare by providing access to test results, appointment schedules, and health records. This timely communication can prevent minor issues from escalating and ensure patients feel heard and supported.

Medication 52

Medication Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction Communication 52

Northwest Career College

APRIL 9, 2025

Enhance Patient Communication Good communication skills will help the Medical Assistant build trust and ensure patients understand their treatment plans. Here, the focus is to enhance these much-needed communication skills for a better patient experience. Improved listening and explaining increase patient comfort and support.

Medical Assistant 40

Medical Assistant Medication Patient Satisfaction Follow-Up 40

EvidenceCare

JUNE 28, 2024

This way, when they discover solutions and opportunities, they can effectively communicate and position them. Pilot programs also allow for testing the technology in real-world scenarios, providing valuable insights into its practical application and effectiveness. “The most important thing we’ve found is the feedback loop.

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Tests Communication Patient Care Collaboration 130

Northwest Career College

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Phlebotomy Technicians are vital healthcare professionals inside hospitals who draw blood from patients for medical testing, transfusions, research, or donations. They also collect blood using fingersticks, often for faster tests like blood sugar monitoring. This ensures the samples will reach the laboratory for testing.

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Emerging RN Leader

AUGUST 27, 2023

Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN As new generations of nurses enter the workforce, they inevitably test organizational rules. We worked through battles about tattoos, nose rings, and cell phones. Today, nurse leaders fight the battle around nurses wearing AirPods while working.

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Tests Communication 142

Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Compared with other nations’ health citizens, Americans tend to be more bullish on using at-home tests and apps to track health, as gauged in the survey report, A consumer-centered future of health from Deloitte Insights.

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Tests Communication Hospital Medication 135

Northwest Career College

MAY 14, 2025

You will be the person who helps the patient through imaging, describing what’s going to take place, and comforting them during the test. Patients are often apprehensive about tests, so being able to communicate clearly and help them relax is one of the most essential skills. Working near people can be very rewarding.

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Tests Communication Medication 40

Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2020

These can include labor costs, time costs for both clinicians and patients (including both travel and time off from work), procedures (including savings conserved avoiding duplication or re-testing), facility charges, and others. meta-analyses). Among key lessons learned from the pandemic, the virtues of virtual care will be longstanding.

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Patient Satisfaction Tests Communication 127

Northwest Career College

MARCH 28, 2025

Results of the diagnostic tests. Update of Information: Add new test results, treatment plans, or other information to keep the records current. Facilitate Communication: Assist the doctors, nurses, and other personnel in the healthcare service in accessing the information they need.

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Medical Administrative Assistant Medication Medical Terminology HIPAA 40

Prism Career Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This necessity extends to both the services you provide and the way you communicate about them. This can include collecting samples or performing basic tests. You may also need to communicate test results to patients. Thyroid function: This test measures hormone levels to evaluate thyroid function.

Medical Assistant 81

Medical Assistant Medication Vital Signs Medical Terminology 81

Scrubs

MAY 18, 2024

ER and urgent care nurses can mitigate these fears by being well-informed and empathetic communicators. Nurses can advocate for policy changes within their institutions that directly benefit the uninsured, such as more transparent pricing structures and reducing non-essential medical tests that inflate costs.

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Insurance Patient Advocacy Tests Extended Care 130

Practice Index

APRIL 10, 2025

Practices are not obliged to run blood tests, chase results or complete paperwork for treatments initiated outside the NHS, they said. Another Practice Manager we spoke to pointed to the fact that its the responsibility of the private provider to ensure the safety and suitability of the treatment theyre prescribing.

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Documentation Tests Communication Patient Care 81

New York Medical Career Training Center

MARCH 19, 2025

An EKG technician performs diagnostic tests, usually electrocardiograms (ECGs). These tests show the electrical activity of the heart and can be used by a doctor to diagnose arrhythmias or myocardial infarction. Understanding what they do and how this career is beneficial can help you decide the right course for yourself.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 11, 2023

Not only do we use language to communicate, we also use language to think. However, contrary to a standardized test on which the medical history is presented in a paragraph of clean prose, it requires skill to obtain a medical history. George Orwell wrote , “…if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

Medical History 241

Medical History Physical Exams Huddles/Rounds Medication 241

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

One participant shared: The reason the vaccine is a complete turn off to me is because of the history of vaccinations in the African American community. Thats why Im anti-vaccination I never like the fact that we [African Americans] are always the lab experiment, the testing community for these vaccinations.

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