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Top Healthcare Career Resources Blogs of 2021

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

2021 was a big year for our blog with 70 new articles published, and as the new year begins, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on our top performing all-time publications for the year. So what were readers like you most interested to hear from us in 2021? Every type of encounter is assigned an RVU value by Medicare.

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Home Health CoPs Update: New Opportunities for OTs

Relias

OTs working in home health can initiate the start of care in more situations beginning in 2022 under changes to the Medicare conditions of participation (CoPs). Under previous rules, an OT was not authorized by Medicare to conduct an initial assessment in home health. OTs Can Conduct Medicare Initial Assessment.

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Caring for adults with autism spectrum disorder

American Nurse

Potential barriers to quality care for patients with ASD include a patient’s inability to effectively communicate their needs to providers, sensory issues worsened by the overstimulating hospital environment, and a lack of specialized ASD training among healthcare providers. See EBP recommendations.) ASD order set.

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ChatGPT: potential to enhance nurse-patient communication

Nursing Review

ChatGPT, a chatbot that makes predictions based on a vast dataset of words and natural human dialogues, gained over 100 million users in the first two months after its launch in November 2021. Nursing Review spoke with professor Ahmed about how ChatGPT could improve nurse-to-patient relationships through better communication.

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Discharge planning assessment tool

American Nurse

Safe, effective, and timely discharge requires good communication among the healthcare team, the patient, and the family. According to a study by Meo and colleagues, effective healthcare team member communication during daily rounds can help reduce length of stay by 21%. December 1, 2021. Is the pharmacy open? 2019;19(1):935.

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Behind the Poor Pay and High Turnover Rates of Direct Support Professionals

Relias

Because CMS is a federal agency, community providers cannot simply raise their prices or shift costs to create higher DSP wages. Individual states determine provider rates and must include these rates in their state’s Medicaid Plan, which is ultimately reviewed by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS).

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Cleveland Clinic’s Virtual Emergency Medicine Program: Treating the Right Patients in the Right Place

Consult QD

Origins and COVID-19 impact The program arose from Cleveland Clinic’s desire to leverage technology to make emergency care more accessible and from the healthcare system’s initial experience with a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services payment model called Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3).