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Keeping Your License Safe: Best Practices for Nurses When Passing Narcotics

Empowered Nurses

Miscounts, poor documentation, or even one careless shortcut can lead to accusations of diversion, patient harm, or negligence. Here are practical, no-nonsense strategies to help keep your licenseand your patientssafe when handling narcotics. Be sure to scan the patient to document the administration of the medication.

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Late Arrivals, No-Shows? Effective Strategies for NPs

Nurse Practitioners in Business

However, to effectively manage these problems, you need a unified approach of clear policies, proactive and open communication, and a good dose of patient education. So here are strategies to help you address these (never-ending) challenges in your practice. Does that mean you cant do anything about it? No, of course not!

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Nursing Care Plan: Guide with Example & Writing Tips

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

They also facilitate effective communication in a nursing team. Well outline best practices and provide you with a nursing care plan example that you can download and print. A nursing care plan documents how to identify a patients needs and facilitate holistic care, typically according to a five-step framework.

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Best Practices for Healthcare Organizations to Ensure OSHA Compliance

American Medical Compliance

In this blog, we’ll delve into the best practices that healthcare organizations can adopt to achieve and uphold OSHA compliance. See our OSHA Training courses at AMC. Hazard Communication Healthcare facilities must adhere to OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard.

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Collaborating with Medical Interpreters: Best Practices for LEP Patients

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Medical interpreters are vital to our LEP patients and serve as a bridge for translating both language and other crucial cross-cultural elements of communication. In this work group, it was also identified that health care staff could benefit from learning about best practices for when they work with a medical translator.

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Preventing Resident-to-Resident Aggression Through Staff Training 

American Medical Compliance

Improved Communication Skills: a. Learning how to communicate calmly and effectively with residents. Clear Reporting Procedures Staff should know how to document and report incidents of aggression properly. Team Collaboration Promoting teamwork among staff members allows for better coordination and communication.

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Top 4 Service Recovery Best Practices

Relias

Healthcare providers are no strangers to service challenges missed appointments, long wait times, communication breakdowns, or billing confusion are part of the everyday operational landscape. Here are four best practices for effective service recovery, enabled by a modern experience management strategy. rude, confused, pain).