Relias

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Healthcare organizations across the U.S. have grappled with healthcare staffing shortages since well before the COVID-19 pandemic. Many organizations view the healthcare staffing crisis as a long-term problem that requires more than temporary solutions. 1 – Provide more incentives for healthcare providers to stay in their jobs.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

By working to make your organization a safer place to work for everyone, you’re likely to see staff retention and engagement increase, which can lead to more consistent, quality care for persons served. Enhance employee engagement, networking, and empowerment. It’s truly a win-win. It is important and necessary work.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

As the nation’s largest group of mental health services providers, social workers are uniquely positioned to help clients make significant positive changes in their health and well-being by taking time to talk with them about their drinking. These conversations can have a major impact.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

Learn a combination of diagnosis and interventionist tools of dissociation to consider when engaged in treatment of populations of color. Identify future areas of work/growth, boundaries as practitioners as the continued need for mental health treatment remains an essential service during the COVID 19 pandemic in the U.S. .”

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Though the COVID-19 pandemic is waning, the changes it brought to healthcare persist. It is not just a trait you are naturally imbued with, but rather “ an active practice ” that anyone can engage in. At work, resilience is associated with job satisfaction, employee engagement, and interpersonal relationships.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Unlike traditional healthcare models that often focus on specific conditions, Whole Health looks at the entire person — body, mind, and spirit. The Whole Health approach encourages Veterans to reflect on what is most important to them and to work with their healthcare team to create a personalized plan that supports their overall well-being.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is a philosophy within healthcare organizations that looks to constantly improve upon patient care, staff safety, and organizational processes. When quality improvement is working well, people are more engaged in their jobs. Healthcare is “an overworked, understaffed, stressful environment.”

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JULY 20, 2021

The shared services model also ensures consistency and reduces costs by enabling smaller business units to access high-quality experts and resources that might otherwise be out of their reach. It’s important to note that KVC does not have the same mix of services in each state.

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Relias

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Whether they are natural or man-made disasters, human services professionals must prepare accordingly. The link between trauma and healthcare needs. In recent years, researchers have taken a more holistic approach to understanding human health. Engage in partnerships. Disasters happen.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , is the perfect time to review the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals. The national patient safety goals listed by the Joint Commission include some of the biggest preventable risks to patient safety across healthcare systems.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Provide patient education, improve engagement, and ensure appropriate hand-offs during transitions of care. They take an active stance in managing the utilization of client healthcare services and in improving client outcomes. When done effectively, care coordination can reduce the burden placed on healthcare providers.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To effectively manage workers from so many generations, you need to keep three simple tips in mind: communication, respect, and engagement. Respect people’s differences As Gallup points out, employees who know “they are respected as individuals at work” are more likely to be engaged.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Trauma-informed care is a framework for delivering healthcare that acknowledges the profound effects of trauma on individuals’ lives. Collaboration and mutuality Engage all stakeholders (clients, staff, external partners) in the trauma-informed care process. Create nonjudgmental spaces for staff to exchange feedback and support.

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Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Direct Support Professionals (DSPs), like most adult learners, want to be engaged in their job training and learn new skills best by building on their life experiences. These techniques will help learners become and remain engaged in their training, while simultaneously improving their retention of the information presented.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For healthcare organizations that treat veteran populations, creating a program that can identify individuals struggling with suicidal ideation and other mental health conditions can go a long way to decreasing the incidence of suicide among veterans. Male veterans have higher suicide rates than female veterans.

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Relias

JULY 13, 2023

Older adults in healthcare settings and long-term care facilities are more likely to have a behavioral health disorder than those who live in the community, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Part of this care includes building resilience in older adults.

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Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

Before implementing any of these modalities of telehealth, the provider should evaluate the risks and benefits of each model, as well as determine the ability of the caregiver to engage in telehealth with the appropriate technology.

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Relias

MAY 8, 2023

For healthcare organizations of all kinds, becoming trauma-informed has never been more important. To that end, organizational leaders and administrators need to engage in collaborative partnerships with staff, clients, and other agencies. What does it mean to be trauma-informed?

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Social Work Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Approximately 40 Ambassadors , recruited from NASW Specialty Practice Section (SPS) member ranks, amplified the initiative’s messaging to their audiences; and three Sister Social Work Organizations engaged in communications campaigns that augmented messaging. Pandemic fatigue is continuously experienced as well.

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Relias

MAY 20, 2024

If you work in healthcare, you will most likely be called upon to help others through a traumatic time. Effectively implementing DEI practices hinges upon active engagement from every employee, supported by robust organizational backing. This can result in secondary trauma, also known as vicarious trauma.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By utilizing open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summaries, healthcare practitioners can effectively facilitate conversations that promote positive change. To engage in reflective listening, you must cultivate reflective thinking. You should then adjust your interpretation accordingly.

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Relias

JUNE 21, 2023

Since then, DEI efforts in healthcare , government, education, and business have progressed further. Survey results showed strong connections between employees’ sense of belonging and higher levels of engagement, mental health, resiliency, and productivity — and lower levels of fatigue and emotional exhaustion.

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Relias

JUNE 21, 2023

Since then, DEI efforts in healthcare , government, education, and business have progressed further. Survey results showed strong connections between employees’ sense of belonging and higher levels of engagement, mental health, resiliency, and productivity — and lower levels of fatigue and emotional exhaustion.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services first declared a 90-day public health emergency (PHE). If individuals no longer qualify for Medicaid or CHIP because their income has increased, they may be able to get health coverage through an employer or the healthcare marketplace. By Carrie Dorn, MPA, LMSW.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

is not the right pick to become the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. NASW remains unwavering in its commitment to advocating for policies that safeguard and elevate the social work profession, bolster public health, and ensure equitable access to vital services for all communities. Kennedy Jr.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) breaks these determinants down into five domains: economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment and social and community context. Access to healthcare is a significant public determinant of health.

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