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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Care coordination under HHVBP.

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The Future of Travel Nursing: Market Predictions for 2025

The Gypsy Nurse

Licensing Flexibility: Some states are exploring initiatives like the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), which allows nurses to practice in multiple states without needing a separate license for each one. This is expected to ease mobility for travel nurses, making it easier for them to accept contracts in different regions.

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Virtual Nursing Shifts its Focus to the Patient Experience

Health Leaders | Nursing

The program has now spread to all four of Sharp's hospitals, encompassing about 600 licensed beds and 16.2 Roughly one year ago, on April 1, 2024, Sharp launched its first virtual nursing program in two selected units, focusing primarily on handling admissions from the Emergency Department and discharges.

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From Dream to Reality: Jolene Scatton’s Journey to a Fulfilling Nursing Career

Daily Nurse

In 2007, Scatton started as a licensed practical nurse (LPN) in the same unit where she now works as director. “I I became the first Stroke and Chest Pain Coordinator for LVH–Hazleton, a brand-new role for the hospital,” says Scatton. She worked as a patient care coordinator until the position of unit director became available.

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How Important Is Continuing Education for Nurses?

Nurse.com

In a recent ruling in North Carolina , nurses can now be held responsible for medical mistakes because they now have a significant and influential role in care coordination and care management. All states accept Nursing Continuing Professional Development to meet license renewal requirements.

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The Relentless School Nurse: School Nurse Trends – Tales from the Frontlines

The Relentless School Nurse

Recognize the primary duties of contemporary school nurses, including care coordination, collaboration with parents, teachers, and healthcare providers, and addressing significant health challenges such as chronic illnesses. Subscribe and never miss a chance to listen, learn, and earn nursing CE.

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Team Up to Tackle Care Redesign

Health Leaders | Nursing

Teaming a nurse with an LPN/CNA, she says, enables the nurse to work at the top of his or her license. Landstrom says leadership did a lot of research prior to launching the program and found that 40% of the tasks done by nurses on the floor can be done by someone other than an RN.