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Healthcare Technology and Nursing: What You Should Know

Diversity Nursing

It also significantly reduces travel time and patient expenses, improves care coordination, and allows Nurses to reach a larger patient population. Wearable Medical Devices Wearable medical devices offer Nurses new tools to enhance patient care and monitoring.

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Understanding FWA Compliance in Healthcare

American Medical Compliance

While EHRs offer numerous benefits, including improved documentation and care coordination, they also introduce complexities and potential vulnerabilities. EHR systems centralize patient health information, making it easier for healthcare providers to monitor and track patient care while ensuring data accuracy and integrity.

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Behind Closed Doors: Forensic Nurses Approach Victims With Empathy and Precision

Consult QD

Trauma-informed care The first priority of any forensic nurse is to ensure that patients are treated medically, if necessary. We do everything we can to promote healing, and part of that involves putting patients in the driver’s seat. By involving them in the decision-making process, we hope to help them reclaim a little power.”

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Can an LPN/LVN Become a Certified Managed Care Nurse? The Answer May Surprise You

Registered Nursing

What Is a Managed Care Nurse? Managed care nurses , also known as case managers or care coordinators, are nurses who specialize in coordinating and managing the healthcare of patients within a managed care system. Read below to learn the steps involved so you can get started in this exciting career today.

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Emerging Roles and Expanded Responsibilities for Certified Nursing Assistants

Every Nurse

Technology has revolutionized the industry, offering new ways to deliver care and manage patient information. Electronic health records, for example, have streamlined the process of documenting patient care, making it easier for healthcare providers to access and share patient information. Here are just a few.

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Engaging nurses in scholarly work

American Nurse

Nurses’ work hours typically are consumed by direct patient care, coordination, teaching, and documentation. To get their buy-in, nurses must understand the value of scholarly work and how research findings can help ensure that their current practice reflects the best and most current approach to safe patient care.

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What Is a Healthcare Gap Analysis (or Gap Assessment)?

Relias

Results from an analysis can systematically uncover where the greatest gaps are occurring — which oftentimes can be the areas of greatest risk, whether they are in patient safety, care quality, patient satisfaction, organizational reputation, or other major pain point.”