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How to Keep Patients Satisfied — and Raise Your Patient Satisfaction Scores

Relias

Patient experience is directly tied to patient retention, reimbursement, and in many cases, better patient outcomes. As a result, many organizations continuously look for new ways to improve their patient satisfaction as efficiently and effectively as possible. How can you raise your patient satisfaction scores?

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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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OSF Healthcare Tests AI Tool to Schedule Advanced Care Planning

Health Leaders | Nursing

Surveys estimate only 22% of Americans have documented their end-of-life wishes. Although experts agree on the importance of ACPs, clinicians cite time constraints and poor communication with other providers as barriers to having end-of-life discussions," Handler and his team wrote in a recently published study.

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The Exec: HCA Vigorously Develops Technology to Increase Nurse Efficiency

Health Leaders | Nursing

HCA Healthcare nurses are using ever-developing technology that has enhanced communication, decreased administrative burden, and provides skill development—all with the goal of improving patient care, says Sammie Mosier, DHA, MBA, BSN, NE-BC, CMSRN , senior vice president and chief nurse executive. So that's really exciting.

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5 Ways to Reduce Horizontal Violence in Healthcare

Relias

Horizontal violence is particularly problematic in nursing because of the high-stress, fast-paced work environments where teamwork and clear communication are crucial for patient care. Healthcare leaders and managers must consistently model respectful communication and enforce zero-tolerance policies.

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Top 10 Attributes of a Great Nurse

Diversity Nursing

High-Quality Communication Skills: A great Nurse must be proficient in effective communication. Nurses are often the liaison between doctors, patients, and families, so they must be able to convey information clearly to avoid errors or miscommunications. When Nurses work as a team, workplace morale improves, and patients thrive.

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Fixing the Grad Nurse Turnover Problem by Equipping Your Preceptors

Healthy Workforce Institute

Preceptors should confront issues, start documentation if necessary, and keep managers informed. Next Generation of Bullies To prevent new nurses from becoming the next generation of bullies, preceptors need to immediately confront disruptive behavior, start a documentation trail, and give managers a heads-up about any concerning behavior.