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Virtual Nursing Shifts its Focus to the Patient Experience

Health Leaders | Nursing

Other factors include readmissions (a costly pain point for every health system), nurse workflows and well-being, and patient satisfaction and engagement. Stone and Plume say Sharp leadership wanted to target the patient experience in the evolution of virtual nursing, with a service that creates a care program around the patient.

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Let’s huddle up

American Nurse

A comprehensive ambulatory cancer center’s journey to implementing tiered huddles Takeaways: Tiered huddles are brief conversations that occur throughout levels of an organization or across health systems to improve patient safety, communication, situational awareness, care coordination, resource utilization, patient outcomes, and service.

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Tracking Key Metrics to Virtual Nursing Success

Health Leaders | Nursing

Patient satisfaction. With the industry’s gradual shift to value-based care, health systems are placing more emphasis on patient experience—and a virtual nursing program can have a profound impact on how a patient feels about the care they receive.

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Making a Case for Nurse Case Management 

Minority Nurse

Gillingham states, “Nurse case management is a specialty that ensures patients receive the quality care and services they need in a cost-effective manner. Case managers act as patient advocates, problem-solvers, and care coordinators across the healthcare continuum.” What About Entrepreneurship?

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What Is a Healthcare Gap Analysis (or Gap Assessment)?

Relias

A gap analysis , or gap assessment , is a staple tool of business management that applies to all types of businesses, including healthcare organizations. The “gap” refers to the difference between business goals and actual performance. ” — John Harrington, CMI, Director of Clinical Solutions at Relias.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Elodia Mercier

Minority Nurse

I started as a staff RN in 1984 in the Neurology unit of Montefiore and then moved to the Rehabilitation units for long-term care. I was then promoted to become a Patient Care Coordinator and then a Nurse Manager in the Department of Medicine. After consecutive years of consistently meeting high Press Ganey (patient.