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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Care coordination under HHVBP.

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Virtual Nursing's Future? One Platform, Many Uses

Health Leaders | Nursing

"The team is piloting care delivery in a more comprehensive fashion with remote virtual nurses," Klahn, a participant in the HealthLeaders Virtual Nursing Mastermind program for the second year, said in a recent e-mail exchange. Steve Klahn, clinical director for virtual medicine at Houston Methodist. Photo courtesy Houston Methodist.

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Healthcare Technology and Nursing: What You Should Know

Diversity Nursing

One of the many benefits of telehealth is it can enhance access to healthcare for individuals living in remote or rural communities or those with limited mobility. It also significantly reduces travel time and patient expenses, improves care coordination, and allows Nurses to reach a larger patient population.

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Private Duty Nurse Job Description [Updated for 2025]

Registered Nursing

Apply to private duty agencies or network with care coordinators and families. Optional certifications: Ventilator or trach training (for high-acuity roles) Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Geriatric care certifications Salary & Job Outlook in 2025 Private duty nurses are in increasing demand due to the aging U.S.

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Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak

Health Leaders | Nursing

It's communication to older adults that sounds like baby talk," said Clarissa Shaw, a dementia care researcher at the University of Iowa College of Nursing and a co-author of a recent article that helps researchers document its use. "It People understand almost intuitively what "elderspeak" means. It's a term of affection."

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Let’s huddle up

American Nurse

A comprehensive ambulatory cancer center’s journey to implementing tiered huddles Takeaways: Tiered huddles are brief conversations that occur throughout levels of an organization or across health systems to improve patient safety, communication, situational awareness, care coordination, resource utilization, patient outcomes, and service.

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Virtual Nursing’s Future? One Platform, Many Uses

Health Leaders | Nursing

The team is piloting care delivery in a more comprehensive fashion with remote virtual nurses, Klahn, a participant in the HealthLeaders Virtual Nursing Mastermind program for the second year, said in a recent e-mail exchange. Steve Klahn, clinical director for virtual medicine at Houston Methodist. Photo courtesy Houston Methodist.