Relias

JULY 23, 2025

To help you better manage your organization’s various compliance needs, let’s delve into what behavioral compliance entails and some best practices to keep in mind. In fact, by 2024, 43% of American adults indicated they felt more anxious than they did the previous year.

Best Practices

American Nurse

JULY 30, 2025

Best practices for providing patient- and family-centered hospital care include open visiting hours, patient involvement in the daily plan of care, evidence-based communication tools, bedside shift reports, and hourly rounding. Hospitals with the highest patient satisfaction scores typically receive the best reimbursement rates.

Patient Satisfaction

Relias

JULY 21, 2025

With constant changes to procedure and diagnosis codes, payer-specific requirements, industry best practices, and documentation guidelines, it’s easy for errors to slip through, especially when teams are understaffed or undertrained. In FY 2024 alone, there were 395 new ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes. CPC, CCS) are key.

Medicare

American Nurse

JUNE 3, 2024

Using best practice recommendations from CARD and the literature, the team developed a questionnaire that allows the patient and caregiver to communicate their unique needs to the healthcare team. 2024; 19(6). 3W3aHFM Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Autism/developmental questionnaire. J Autism Dev Disord.

Communication

American Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, despite available best practice guidelines, nurses’ knowledge of both risk and preventive strategies varies and the incidence of pressure injuries (PIs) worldwide remains stagnant. Medicare estimates that each pressure injury adds $43,180 to a hospital stay. 2024; 19(1). worldwide. • October 2014.

Education

Nursing Review

APRIL 15, 2024

If we were doing best practice, sometimes things like EMDR therapy, we would be looking at two sessions a week for blocks of time – so two sessions a week. I also just want to call attention to the perinatal or pregnancy counselling rebates that Medicare allows. There's about a $40 gap between that," Ms O'Doherty said. "I

Medicare

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

2024 priorities include nursing workforce protections, access to nursing care, and payment parity. As Congress settles into 2024 and a presidential election year, ANA is pursuing nursing priorities by advocating across a broad range of issues important to nurses and the profession.

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