Relias

MAY 24, 2023

­Healthcare workforce safety depends on both nurse safety and patient safety. Nurses and other healthcare staff rely on safe working environments, capable leaders, support for personal well-being, and of course, respect. How can healthcare organizations and leaders achieve these goals by protecting nurse and patient safety congruently?

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The landscape of obstetric care is evolving rapidly, but not always in ways that benefit healthcare providers. This trend is not just alarming; it’s a call to action for healthcare providers and institutions to reassess their practices. Breakdowns in communication — Effective communication is the backbone of patient safety.

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Relias

JULY 2, 2024

Telehealth is a broader term that encompasses the use of technology to deliver healthcare services remotely. These innovative healthcare solutions have the potential to improve access, quality, and efficiency of care for people around the world, especially those who do not currently have adequate healthcare options.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Coding and clinical documentation have never been more important in healthcare. “We You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. Insufficient Clinical Documentation or Underreported codes. Coding is high value — and in high demand.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Coding and clinical documentation have never been more important in healthcare. “We You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. Insufficient Clinical Documentation or Underreported codes. Coding is high value — and in high demand.

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Relias

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Healthcare leaders should implement these steps in all hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities. Below, we explore each phase and highlight essential strategies for healthcare leaders to consider when planning for emergencies.

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Relias

DECEMBER 18, 2023

While many healthcare leaders believe that nurse residency programs are a necessity , others are wary of the cost and long-term commitment they require. While these programs often have a pre-set curriculum to help facilitate standardization across healthcare organizations, hospitals can tailor them to meet their unique needs and goals.

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Relias

MARCH 7, 2023

Nurses have one of the most in-demand roles in healthcare, and with a 6% projected job growth rate through 2031, the demand for nurses to fill both vacancies and new roles is only increasing. Maximizing nurse recruitment and retention is a challenge nearly every healthcare organization across the country is facing.

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Relias

MAY 1, 2022

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality calculates that more than 17,000 lawsuits related to pressure injuries are filed each year — second only to wrongful death suits. Understanding the legal implications of gaps in care can help protect all involved: physicians, nurses, other caregivers, and healthcare administrators and leaders.

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Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

Improving patient experience scores is a goal for many healthcare organizations — and for good reason. As they consider new ideas to raise patient satisfaction, healthcare leaders must have an understanding of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scoring system that evaluates these efforts.

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Relias

JUNE 18, 2024

Here at Relias, we receive countless inquiries about the Angoff (pass/fail) score displayed on our Relias clinical assessment results pages. The exam is then published for use by healthcare organizations across the country. Do A and B versions of clinical assessments have the same Angoff score?

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Relias

JUNE 17, 2024

It benefits healthcare organizations by decreasing the demand for acute care and improving patient outcomes. By decreasing the need for acute care, pre-acute care could help acute care organizations achieve significant resource savings, and the healthcare industry overall could potentially save millions.

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Relias

JUNE 17, 2024

It benefits healthcare organizations by decreasing the demand for acute care and improving patient outcomes. By decreasing the need for acute care, pre-acute care could help acute care organizations achieve significant resource savings, and the healthcare industry overall could potentially save millions.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Healthcare organizations have been using a quality improvement framework consisting of six attributes — safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable — for decades. But new research has expanded the framework to include elements that address more recent challenges in healthcare and in society.

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Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

Nursing shortage statistics continue to show that the healthcare industry still has an urgent need for nurses. Because of these ongoing trends, healthcare organizations and the nursing community must work collaboratively to find ways to examine the link between the nursing shortage and patient safety.

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Center for Child Protection

JUNE 26, 2024

The goal of the Community Spotlight series is for organizations to share their resources with a captive audience, ensuring that the information is effectively communicated and utilized. Nicole Curcio , LCSW, Lead Family Advocate Feedback from our clinical staff has been overwhelmingly positive.

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Relias

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As new nurses enter the workforce, identifying and encouraging specific nursing qualities helps healthcare organizations recognize strong candidates for hire and understand which of their current nurses would make great leaders. 2 – Excellent communication skills Strong communication skills are an important nurse characteristic.

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Relias

MARCH 7, 2023

Nurses have one of the most in-demand roles in healthcare, and with a 6% projected job growth rate through 2031, the demand for nurses to fill both vacancies and new roles is only increasing. Maximizing nurse recruitment and retention is a challenge nearly every healthcare organization across the country is facing.

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Center for Child Protection

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While Olivia was sharing her story, the family advocate sat in a nearby room with her mother, explaining what support their family would receive from law enforcement, child protective services, healthcare, and the legal sector. In 2023, the Center’s clinical team provided 4,722 therapy sessions to kids just like Olivia.

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Relias

JUNE 28, 2023

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), integrated care is defined as “the systematic coordination of general and behavioral healthcare.” To provide the best services possible, healthcare organizations of all kinds must understand how to implement integrated care management.

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Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Medical errors are a healthcare professional’s worst nightmare. If designed and deployed effectively, safety protocols empower healthcare administrators to learn from past mistakes, minimize errors, improve the reliability of their medical staff — and most importantly — reduce patient mortality rates.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2022

Leadership development in healthcare organizations is a critical strategy to promote employee satisfaction and retention. Leaders who are adept at communicating, providing feedback, and exhibiting cultural sensitivity hit the sweet spot with new and existing hires. How To Promote Leadership Development in Healthcare.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

According to the Relias 2023 S tate of Healthcare Training and Staff Development Report , 68% of managers in the post-acute-care sector reported that their current staff development and training program has a “major” or “significant” impact on achieving their organization’s top business goals.

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Relias

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Jody Collins , MSN, RN, NPD BC, System Director, Clinical Education at Memorial Hermann, shared that “optimizing agility to reimagine a culture of nursing excellence and high reliability” became the crux of the organization’s strategic approach when faced with workforce challenges. Adapting communications to meet urgent needs.

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Social Care

JULY 20, 2022

Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, Deborah Sturdy, and Skills for Care CEO, Oonagh Smyth, look at the progress being made to create a national voluntary framework to support the safe and effective delegation of healthcare interventions to the social care workforce. Image created by freepik.com ]. Find out more.

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Relias

AUGUST 12, 2023

As with any healthcare organization, risk management is a crucial element of FQHCs’ mission to improve outcomes for vulnerable populations. Respondents also commented that credentialing is important from a liability perspective, as it documents that health centers are carrying out their due diligence when hiring new healthcare practitioners.

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Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

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. Under the first performance year of VBP in 2023, home health agencies will be scored in part on the patient’s perception of their communication and team discussion.”

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Social Care

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As social care nurses and colleagues in wider care teams, we are dedicated to maximising good health and wellbeing and, where clinically appropriate, avoiding hospital admissions and supporting timely discharge. Better communication is often the way to solve many workplace problems.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The study compared two cohorts, one onboarded using an assessment-driven personalized learning plan, demonstrating: 8% improvement in communication. Healthcare leaders agree that effective onboarding is key to new nurse success, but often struggle to provide evidence-based support for specific onboarding programs.

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Relias

OCTOBER 17, 2022

After considering a career change for a couple of years, her mind kept going back to the idea of entering the healthcare profession. One day, she was working her scheduled clinical rotation shift at the hospital when she began having intense contractions. She also found that her experiences helped her communicate better with families.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

While most healthcare organizations have eight-hour shifts, many hospitals have relied on 12-hour shifts since the 1970s. There are distinct advantages and disadvantages associated with both eight- and 12-hour shifts, and healthcare administrators have yet to come to a consensus on whether one is inherently better than the other.

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Relias

AUGUST 8, 2023

Improve communication. For PAC organizations, the most important results of employee training include improving standards for clinical practice, clinical competency, and program or service outcomes. In fact, employers who engage in employee development usually experience an increase in sales and profits. Boost efficiency.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Mediator : They facilitate communication and resolve conflicts between individuals or within families to promote healthy relationships. Community Organizer : Social workers may organise and mobilise communities to address social issues, promote social justice, and create positive change.

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Gateway Foundation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Psychologists have found that using medically accurate language can help dismantle stereotypes outside the clinical space while providing more effective, compassionate support for people with addiction. Use People-First Language Patient communication in substance use disorders starts with people-first language.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 10, 2024

She works in inpatient/outpatient specialty care policy and as a clinical social worker across the Veterans Administration. She helped develop a bipartisan bill in the House to improve access to social work services across healthcare settings. Jones provided leadership for the Coalition for Social Work and Health.

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Relias

MAY 8, 2023

For healthcare organizations of all kinds, becoming trauma-informed has never been more important. Rather, your organization will communicate this model’s benefits, including how it will allow staff to provide better care for clients and how it can make everyone’s job, clinical and non-clinical staff alike, a little easier.

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Relias

AUGUST 5, 2022

New dad Vince Baiera is no stranger to healthcare. Eventually he transitioned out of nursing and into education, where he taught at the college level, then moved into the business side of healthcare. The Baieras made a fully informed decision that aligned with their wishes based on good communication with their healthcare providers.

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