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Essential Tools for Enhancing Patient Communication and Safety in Nursing

Daily Nurse

With this in mind, we highlight five essential tools: Patient Communication Boards, Red Medical Warning Dog Tags, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Medication Reconciliation Forms, and Interpreter Services. Another plus is that patients wearing these tags feel more secure, knowing their healthcare team is aware of their unique needs.

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2 Major Impacts of the Nursing Shortage

Health Leaders | Nursing

"Hospitals that invest in this, for each percent change that they decrease their turnover, they can save almost $300,000 a year," Goettl said, "so that investment in retaining your staff and keeping your staff and investing in your staff really comes full circle." Investment in transition to practice programs is also key.

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A Four-Legged Answer to Nurse Wellbeing?

Health Leaders | Nursing

We lost a lot of our healthcare staff during the COVID pandemic," Steinberg said, "and then afterwards, people found that they just weren't able to come back to the bedside[or] the hospital environment." We wanted to make it a program that was so accessible that we would go to where staff were working." Enter the Buckeye Paws program.

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How a Care Coordination Center Can Improve Care Inefficiencies

Health Leaders | Nursing

Working through the Epic EHR platform, staff at the center can centralize bed placement. Staff at the center can also balance and manage capacity within each of the six hospitals and ensure that patients transferred into the health system are placed in the appropriate care setting. This also contributes to patient safety and quality."

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Boosting Gen Z Engagement: The Secret to Nurse Retention?

Health Leaders | Nursing

Press Ganey recently released the Nurse Experience 2025 report, which relies on feedback from over 500,000 RNs, APPs, and other clinical staff across the country. What does that number mean though and what should CNOs do about it? This is part one of a two-part story. Part two will be published on Monday, August 4.

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UPMC boosts nurse compensation to $52.17 an hour by 2027

Health Leaders | Nursing

Pillar: CNO Link: Full story Article Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Tags: career compensation nurses nursing staff Secondary Pillars: CNO Article Type: News Published Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2024 Hide sidebars: Render small main image: for bachelor’s level nurses and $50.42 for those without a bachelor’s degree.

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How One New Hospital CEO Is Tapping Into Her Nursing Experience to Lead the Workforce

Health Leaders | Nursing

Saline Memorial Hospital's recently appointed CEO is utilizing her clinical perspective to improve staff development. As the CEO of a hospital or health system, it's arguably never been more important to be able to see pain points through the eyes of your clinical and non-clinical staff.