American Nurse

JULY 21, 2023

When there is nothing wrong with the patient’s integument, nurses giddily write in their assessment: skin is clean, dry, and intact. Years ago, I admitted a patient with an archipelago of pressure injuries scattered where bony prominences were found that took me 45 minutes to fully assess at the bedside.

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Health Literacy Bedside nursing Self-Care Patient Experience 98

Diversity Nursing

AUGUST 19, 2024

Here’s a look at some of the key ways hospitals are leveraging technology to support their Nursing workforce: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Mobile Documentation Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have revolutionized the way patient information is documented and accessed.

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Consult QD

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In a literature review of 25 studies with adult patients conducted by the Office of Patient Experience at Cleveland Clinic, researchers found that plan-of-care visits reduced hospital length of stay, readmission, mortality, adverse events and inpatient costs and enhanced the patient experience.

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Chief Nursing Officer Communication Patient Experience Patient Satisfaction 95

Health Leaders | Nursing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The third team member, a veteran nurse, is in the telehealth center, monitoring patients and assisting the bedside team (as well as doctors) with documentation and consults. The virtual nurse, meanwhile, sits in the background, offering support when needed, answering calls from patients, and keeping watch over several rooms.

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American Nurse

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Changes in patient experiences of hospital care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Preventing falls in hospitalized patients: State of the science. nsinursingsolutions.com/Documents/Library/NSI_National_Health_Care_Retention_Report.pdf May 19, 2023. JAMA Health Forum. 2023;4(8)e232766. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.2766

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Patient Satisfaction Leadership Nurse Manager Patient Experience 105

Health Leaders | Nursing

JANUARY 2, 2024

Smart rooms and smart room technology also will add to further advancement in patient monitoring, and help take some of the burden off nurses. Smart rooms can hear and listen, which opens up the possibility of real-time transcription of the documentation nurses record for patients.

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Chief Nursing Officer Bedside nursing Patient Experience Business 105

Diversity Nursing

JULY 19, 2023

These devices can wirelessly transmit patient information such as vital signs, blood sugars, and ECG patterns to Nurses to quickly analyze and interpret the data. Electronic Health Records Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have revolutionized how Nurses manage patient information and care.

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Care coordination Communication Nursing Burnout Promotion 73

Scrubs

MARCH 21, 2023

He added that medical payers now require so much documentation related to patients that “it’s almost an arms race.” The AI is sold under the name Dragon Ambient Experience or DAX. “Nobody went into medicine to write notes or fill out insurance authorization forms,” said J. You could miss critical information.”

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Physician Office Licensing Communication Patient Experience 105

American Nurse

AUGUST 1, 2023

Ensure the head of the patient’s bed is elevated. Document input and output. Spinal cord compression (neurologic emergency) Monitor the patient’s airway, breathing, and circulation. Monitor the patient for steroid-induced diabetes. Document input and output. Perform ongoing neurologic assessments.

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Promotion Education Continuing Education Patient Experience 98

American Nurse

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

During medication administration, nurses go beyond the routine checklist of the 11 Rs for safe medication administration (right patient, medication, dose, route, time, assessment, evaluation, documentation, right to refuse, right education, and right reason).

Pharmaceutical 111

Pharmaceutical Self-Care Communication Patient Experience 111

Health Leaders | Nursing

APRIL 19, 2024

A proposed rule change from the state’s Health and Human Services Commission would not allow an adult “to be away from the home for any period of time” whenever a nurse is providing services, according to documents obtained by The Texas Tribune.

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Medicaid Patient Experience 52

Daily Nurse

MARCH 21, 2024

In the classroom, high ideals and ethics are discussed: successful nurses are organized in their thinking and documentation; they’re determined to be empathetic and efficient.” If you can change your thoughts, you can also change your experience and your patients’ experience. And sometimes, we’ll fail and fail again.

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Patient Experience 105

Nurse.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The nurses who received frequent patient experience reports and experienced quality improvement efforts as integrated into patient care did not report feeling burned out. When nurses are heard, they feel valued, more engaged, and more empowered to make improvements in patient care,” she added.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

MAY 20, 2024

"Our goals with it initially, and I would say they have morphed a bit over time," Brown said, "[were] really to redesign the work so that we could remove some work from our nurses that were at the bedside to try to make their experience while they were at work better." Phase two will focus on operations and implementing in-room technology.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It was a heavy lift because we had to standardize that EMR documentation and then we had to make it mobile. When you're changing nursing practice at this level, and doing it right in front of patients and physicians and other caregivers, you have to be certain that you've got it pretty correct before you start launching it across the system.

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Nursing Informatics Patient Experience 105

Consult QD

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Clinical nurses also rely on a resource book created by the Bereavement Committee that offers advice on taking care of and talking to a patient who has lost a baby. The book also includes required documentation for state agencies and funeral homes.

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Nurse Manager Patient Experience 96

Health Leaders | Nursing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Virtua executives say the platform aims to streamline patient care “from routine admit and discharge activities to documentation, fall prevention, and clinician safety.” [See also: Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing.]

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Telemedicine Care coordination Nursing Administration Patient Experience 64

American Nurse

MAY 8, 2023

For example, patient education about medication serves as a performance measure in all healthcare settings, whereas preventing unnecessary hospitalization relates to post-acute care settings. The NAM reports classify healthcare quality measures as structural, process, outcome, cost of care, or patient experience of care.

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Medicare Medicaid Patient Experience Home Healthcare 52

Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Across the entire patient experience, Nurses have a hand in almost every aspect of the patient's healthcare journey. Nurses are compassionate, and dedicated, and work tirelessly to meet the needs of their patients. Every Patient is a Priority, but You May Have to Wait. Nursing is a busy and fast-paced profession.

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Care coordination Business Patient Experience Communication 74

Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

Improving patient experience scores is a goal for many healthcare organizations — and for good reason. Patient experience is directly tied to patient retention, reimbursement, and in many cases, better patient outcomes. Does patient satisfaction equal better health outcomes?

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Amercan Journal of Nursing

AUGUST 25, 2023

The lack of time with patients and the sense of feeling rushed during the day added to burnout. With EMRs and documentation requirements, too many hours were spent on the computer instead of with patients. Providers like APRNs are required by their employers to see a specified number of patients per hour. Productivity.

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Amercan Journal of Nursing

JULY 31, 2023

Staja Booker, PhD, RN It’s 10:00, 15 hours postoperative, and your patient has eaten breakfast and is resting comfortably in bed. You ask the patient, “On a scale of zero to 10, how much pain are you having right now?” The patient replies “zero, as long as I don’t move.” Most nurses are happy when patients report no pain.

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Patient Experience Education 82

IntelyCare

APRIL 12, 2024

Focusing on the 6 Cs of nursing in each of your patient interactions can elevate the level of care you provide. No matter your level of nursing education or practice area, putting these concepts into practice will make a positive impact on care quality and the patient experience. What do we mean by this?

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Communication Patient Experience Education Nurse Educator 59

Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Patient medical records include documentation of patient histories and care. Disadvantages can be limitations on extracting or aggregating data while adhering to patient privacy protocols or having to convert data from non-digitized formats.

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Health Literacy Self-Care Care coordination Health Outcomes 98

Health Leaders | Nursing

JUNE 28, 2024

Alongside addressing admission and discharge times, key elements of a patient’s length of stay, they’re looking at care coordination and management and documentation compliance. Analytics and reporting are part of the process, Klahn says, because “you’ve got to demonstrate ROI early on.”

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Care coordination Telemedicine Leadership Patient Experience 59

Health Leaders | Nursing

JUNE 7, 2024

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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Patient Satisfaction Nursing Informatics Care coordination Patient Experience 64

Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 15, 2024

Many of the tasks that the virtual nurse does are what the primary care nurse can give to them, including shift reports, admissions and discharges, care coordination, and reviewing the record to make sure there is no missing documentation. The virtual nurse also helps develop patient care plans and support new nurses.

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Care coordination Bedside nursing Licensing Leadership 55

Health Leaders | Nursing

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

million patients experience hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) each year, costing about $11 billion, according to the study. Nearly 24% of those incidents occur in ICU patients, as compared to up to 18% among general admission patients. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Clinical Nurse Specialist Patient Experience 52

Scrubs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This knowledge is essential for accurately handling patient records, insurance claims, and other healthcare-related documents. Medical administrative assistants must communicate effectively with medical professionals and patients, requiring a working knowledge of medical concepts.

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Education Communication Patient Experience 59

American Nurse

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Although limited by a new, untested survey, these data shed light on possible contributors to the current crisis of nurse burnout and staffing shortages as well as the serious negative impact on the well-being of both patients and nurses documented by Kieft and colleagues. Hispanic nurses’ experiences of bias in the workplace.

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Self-Care Education Nursing Burnout Continuing Education 105

Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Help providers communicate and collaborate more effectively with their colleagues and patients and streamline their workflows and documentation. The team should also educate and empower the patient to participate in their care and self-management. The team should review the care plan periodically and adjust it as needed.

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Care coordination Patient Satisfaction Self-Care Emergency Care 52

Nursing Review

JULY 29, 2024

Collinsville Family Practice has created more than 500 care documents since the team started utilising Inca in 2022, and more than 210 in the last 12 months. Its integrated care platform has greatly enhanced communication and coordination among our team members, leading to more efficient and effective patient care.

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Care coordination Practice Management Communication Mental Health 52

Registered Nursing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Resource Management: They work to make the best use of healthcare resources and ensure patients receive the necessary care efficiently. Communication: Effective communication with patients, healthcare providers, and insurance companies is a vital aspect of their role. Take your time and carefully read each question before answering.

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American Nurse

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

At monthly night council meetings, the NPD practitioners, nurses, and a patient care experience representative work on projects that affect the overall patient experience. nsinursingsolutions.com/Documents/Library/NSI_National_Health_Care_Retention_Report.pdf Reebals C, Wood T, Markaki A. in early 2023.

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Professional Development Nurse Shortage Leadership Travel Nursing 98

The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Patients on oral targeted therapies and hormone therapies may experience tiredness, hot flushes, mood changes, weight gain, skin rashes, and muscle and joint aches. It is important for nurses to understand the mechanism of action of each drug to provide accurate advice when patients experience side effects.

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Clinical Nurse Specialist Self-Care Health Literacy Business 98

Consult QD

JULY 14, 2023

She discusses: The impact insurance status has on a patient’s financial and emotional wellbeing Why nurses need to understand their patients’ social determinants of health Conversations with patients to ensure they have the necessary support and resources after discharge The role EMR documentation plays in determining what insurance companies will (..)

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Chief Nursing Officer Ambulatory Nurse Nurse Practitioner Patient Experience 52

Health Leaders | Nursing

JANUARY 5, 2024

One really exciting piece is the smart room that can hear and listen, so the opportunity might be there for transcription, or [doing] documentation just by talking through the room and having that assist with my documentation. So, what is the experience for our patients when they interact with the system?

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