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Engage with patients eye to eye

American Nurse

Take a bundled approach to improve the patient experience. Takeaways: The bundle approach to implementing the commit-to-sit initiative positively impacts patient experience scores. This cluster randomized crossover trial didn’t find improvement in patient satisfaction scores. Its reliability ranges from 0.66

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Dual Threats from Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers

Health Leaders | Nursing

The long-term health care industry is facing a double whammy from President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants and the GOP's proposals to reduce Medicaid spending. Care for 6 in 10 residents is paid for by Medicaid , the state-federal health program for poor or disabled Americans. "We Conteh asked.

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Discharge planning assessment tool

American Nurse

On the 32-bed medical/surgical unit at our community hospital, the average discharge time (from the time the provider wrote the order to the time when the patient was physically discharged) was 5 hours and 6 minutes. Safe, effective, and timely discharge requires good communication among the healthcare team, the patient, and the family.

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Early Success Leads to Hospital Care At Home Expansion

Consult QD

After launching Cleveland Clinic Hospital Care At Home (HCAH) in April 2023 to serve patients requiring acute care at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital in Vero Beach, Florida, Cleveland Clinic expanded the pilot to Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital in December with rollout to its remaining three Florida hospitals scheduled for 2024.

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Telehealth: Navigating healthcare delivery in the new normalized space

American Nurse

Thomas and colleagues describe how clinicians across the globe mobilized or expanded available technology to maintain contact with patients, established new access, and explored uncharted methods of providing healthcare access for individuals in need. References Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. March 17, 2020.

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Medicare Care Compare: Publicly reported performance measures

American Nurse

Takeaways: To help patients and their families make informed decisions about choosing health care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly reports quality performance measures. In addition to informing patients, public reporting can drive providers to improve performance. Each area has multiple measures.

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The Value of Nursing

American Nurse

The concept of value, which was introduced in 2006, aligns care with how patients experience their health (Teisberg et al., The American Nurses Association (ANA) has done a lot of work to achieve equitable reimbursement of nursing care (McClendon, 2023). This article summarized numerous ways we can show the value of nursing.