American Nurse

APRIL 2, 2024

The ANA Enterprise Strategic Plan supports and engages ANA members as thought leaders and activists in advancing the understanding of and responses to SDOH. We stabilize them in the hospital but discharge them to the street to have their condition worsen and see them pop right back into the hospital in worse condition,” she noted.

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American Nurse

MARCH 27, 2024

During COVID, we abandoned the bundle to address the crisis, but we returned to it after the SCCM released data validating that integration is associated with decreasing hospital death, reducing delirium and coma, reducing physical restraint use, cutting ICU readmission rates in half, and reducing discharges to rehabilitation facilities.

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American Nurse

MARCH 3, 2023

Takeaways: No standardized post-fall assessment exists for long-term care facilities, which leads to inefficiency and inaccuracy. A possible factor in inaccurate assessments may be a focus on external signs of trauma. This organization identified the issue and took steps to address it by creating a detailed post-fall assessment tool.

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Long Term Care Care coordination Staff Training Nurse Practitioner 59

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Embrace evidence-based tools to empower nurses. Practical, evidence-based guidelines (including visual confirmation tools, documented mobility goals, continuous feedback, and education) can help nurses embrace mobilization of patients receiving ECMO therapy. Describe immobility relative to ECMO and post-intensive care syndrome. (See

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Education Self-Care Promotion Nurse Educator 52

American Nurse

MARCH 6, 2024

Taking a whole person/population health management approach provides patients with individualized care management plans tailored to their specific needs, desires, and capabilities. Ongoing assessment of PRDCA-CM processes led to micro-level changes that improved the project site’s likelihood of implementing sustainment actions.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Communicating clearly about medication requirements during transitions of care — either from one hospital setting to another or during a hospital discharge — helps prevent errors. Also recommended: Screen patients being treated for behavioral health conditions using a validated screening tool.

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Communication Promotion Leadership Health Outcomes 52

Consult QD

JULY 11, 2023

Each program is different, but their overarching goals are the same: provide children with the tools to return confidently and comfortably to their lives. After the patient’s feeding skills are evaluated, the therapist works with the patient and family to develop an age-appropriate goal plan.

Self-Care 62

Self-Care Communication Education 62

American Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

Plan ahead and collaborate for success. Internal surveys, followed by a structured action plan to address areas for improvement, can help units and organizations prepare for upcoming accreditation surveys. Of the 16 hospitals that participated in the project through the 30-day plan of correction call, only two (13%) received a CLD.

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Medicaid Medicare Promotion Leadership 52

American Nurse

JUNE 30, 2023

You can use your knowledge about the health impacts of climate breakdown to assess and educate patients and the public. For example, they may want to prepare an emergency plan and a kit with disease management supplies, snacks to relieve hypoglycemia, water to prevent dehydration, and a list of emergency contacts. May 17, 2019.

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Mental Health Promotion Education Psychiatry 94

Nurse Code

JULY 3, 2022

In other words, instead of checking vital signs and assessing patients, they are organizing meetings, creating work schedules, and making personnel choices. Nurse Managers assist with resource allocation, budgeting, and logistics planning in corporate settings. FAQs Who are Health services Managers? Who are Human Resources Managers?

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Consult QD

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The secondary outcome measure is change in quality of life, as assessed by the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire Clinical Summary Score, at week 52 after TN-201 infusion. Quest for an additional noninvasive tool “As per protocol, we treated the first patient in the trial, a 27-year-old woman, earlier this month,” Dr. Desai notes.

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Relias

JULY 20, 2023

We must improve care in this area of maternal health by strengthening screening, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and ongoing care using recommended screening tools and evidence-based best practices, as well as developing innovative culturally appropriate community-based programs. What is in the Maternity Care Action Plan?

Medicaid 40

Medicaid Mental Health Health Insurance Medicare 40

Relias

JULY 14, 2022

They also need to recognize how social determinants play a role — to make sure risks are not overlooked during pregnancy and follow-up care is in place after the mother is discharged after the delivery of her baby. Awareness of and assessment of both sets of factors must become the new standard of care for all mothers. “We

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Mental Health Telemedicine Medicaid Health Outcomes 52

American Nurse

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Using evidence-based strategies such as the Compre­hensive Unit-based Safety Program ( ahrq.gov/hai/tools/cauti-hospitals/index.html ), interprofessional teams can significantly aid CAUTI prevention. To reduce unnecessary catheterization, assess urine volume via a bladder scan. See CAUTI bundle.) coli among the most common pathogens.

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Best Practices Self-Care Long Term Care Medicaid 62