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How Nurses Can Influence Health Equity

Diversity Nursing

Healthcare encompasses a person's access and quality of medical care, including access to primary care services, health insurance coverage, and understanding of health literacy. As a Nurse, providing culturally competent Nursing care can break down communication barriers and improve the health outcomes of our patients.

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Legal Concepts Nurses Should Know

Premier Medical Staffing

Confidentiality and HIPAA Patient confidentiality is one of the most referenced legal concepts nurses should know. Sharing patient information with unauthorized individuals, whether via email, social media, or through casual conversation, violates HIPAA and can result in serious consequences for the liable party.

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Convenient Care Clinics Trusted as Highly as Primary Care by Majority of Americans

Registered Nursing

How Insurance Status Impacts Convenient Care Visits When exploring why insured and uninsured Americans opt to visit a convenient care facility, we found that uninsured people go mainly because of lower costs, and insured people go primarily because of immediate availability.

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Medicare Care Compare: Publicly reported performance measures

American Nurse

With understanding of these reported measures, nurses can lead improvements in healthcare with evidence-based practice that improves patient outcomes and reduces healthcare costs. Medicare, the largest payer of medical expenses in the United States, provides primary health insurance for more than 60 million beneficiaries.

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A New Tool in the Obesity Management Toolbox

Consult QD

Growing understanding about the chronic nature of obesity indicates long-term management is necessary for patients to maintain their weight loss. But research, including the SURMOUNT-4 trial and the STEP 1 trial extension, has shown that patients experience weight regain once they stop taking these medications.

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A Successful High-Risk Birth: The Baiera Family’s Story

Relias

They were also able to take time away from their jobs, and they had good health insurance coverage. The Baieras acknowledged that they didn’t have other children at home to care for that would have made their long hospital stay even more challenging.

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The Powerful Constraints on Medical Care in Catholic Hospitals Across America

Health Leaders | Nursing

During that time, she said, the patient developed an infection. Chin says it's not realistic that the onus be put on patients to avoid Catholic hospitals' care restrictions. Their health insurance may not include other hospitals, "or that's where the ambulance is taking them and they don't really have a say."(Dan