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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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Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Bedside nurses spend way too much time in documentation," Warr says. The new program, she says, assigns those tasks to the virtual nurse, who can sit in a room in another part of the hospital and handle EMR documentation for several patients. Please join the community at [link].

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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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Navigating the Shift to Value-Based Care: Investing in the Patient Experience

Relias

The solution: Value-based care Unlike the traditional model of collecting fees for services, where healthcare providers earn based on the volume of services rendered, a value-based care model emphasizes the quality of care delivered and its impact on patient outcomes, cost, access to certain services, and the patient experience.

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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 It arises from an ageist assumption of frailty, incompetence, and dependence." And they did."

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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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How CMS’ TEAM Initiative Helps Prevent Surgical Readmissions With Better Wound Care

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Under HRRP, hospitals received financial penalties if their readmission rates exceeded the national average a move that drove greater attention to discharge protocols and transitional care. Still, the program laid essential groundwork by showing that care coordination and patient education could move the needle on readmissions.