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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level. As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. First and foremost, nurses require better pay.

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The Exec: HCA Vigorously Develops Technology to Increase Nurse Efficiency

Health Leaders | Nursing

What we're seeing is the ability to have a virtual nurse handle admission, discharge, and other use cases to assist and take away administrative burden from the bedside nurse. We're seeing a lot of both nurse and patient satisfaction; about 85% of our patients are receptive to that model.

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The Exec: CommonSpirit's New Chief Physician Executive Officer Focused on Care Variation

Health Leaders | Nursing

We educate our clinicians about it. We are going to have a shared platform that manages talent development, wellness, and educational activities." Another area of focus for McGinn and Sanford will be patient satisfaction. "We Whenever we see dips in some areas, we can deploy evidence-based patient satisfaction teams."

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Cedars-Sinai Earns Sixth Magnet Designation

Daily Nurse

This foundation of nursing excellence, combined with the support and collaboration of all our healthcare professionals, is the essence of what makes us a Magnet hospital.” The Magnet recognition has proven beneficial to healthcare organizations, their patients, and their communities.

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Emory Healthcare's 5 Metrics of Success for Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

The second is patient satisfaction. Patients must be made aware of the cameras and what their interactions will be with the virtual nurse. Atkins said that explaining the virtual nursing process to the patients will gain their trust and engagement. "We Atkins said. Length of stay is the third metric.

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Discharge planning assessment tool

American Nurse

Shorten delays, improve safety, reduce costs Takeaways: Hospital discharge delays can result in patient safety issues, reduced patient satisfaction, and increased costs. An assessment tool that goes into effect at admission can help the patient and healthcare team prepare for discharge. See Steady improvement.)

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Health Literacy Tips: Speak Plainly, Teach Often

Nurse.com

Department of Education, nearly 130 million American adults read below a sixth-grade level, and only 12% of Americans have proficient health literacy skills. And if all of these factors are not considered by nurses and other members of the healthcare team, then health literacy will be inadequate. Use the primary nursing model.