University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Higher Risk of Medication Errors and Death A 2021 study revealed that in Illinois, a patients risk of dying within 30 days of admission increased by 16% for every additional patient added to a nurses average workload. decrease in pneumonia infections among surgical patients to an increase of one additional work hour per RN.

Nurse Shortage

Health Leaders | Nursing

MAY 9, 2025

This pilot includes rotating bedside nurses through a local virtual operations center and supporting bedside nurses' care for their patients by increased remote documentation assistance, multi-disciplinary rounds participation and virtual consenting." Steve Klahn, clinical director for virtual medicine at Houston Methodist.

Bedside nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

MAY 9, 2025

This pilot includes rotating bedside nurses through a local virtual operations center and supporting bedside nurses care for their patients by increased remote documentation assistance, multi-disciplinary rounds participation and virtual consenting. Steve Klahn, clinical director for virtual medicine at Houston Methodist.

Bedside nursing

American Nurse

JUNE 30, 2025

These programs, which initiate physical therapy on postoperative Day 0, have yielded positive outcomes related to patient experience and decreased morbidity. OH can adversely affect patient experience, participation in physical therapy, patient safety, and length of stay.

Education

Relias

MAY 19, 2025

Set clear response protocols Experience management platforms allow you to set alerts based on low scores or flagged keywords (e.g., Establish clear workflows that outline who receives alerts, who follows up, and how to document resolution efforts. rude, confused, pain). But alerts are only useful if staff know what to do with them.

Best Practices

Sweeney Healthcare Enterprises

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Empathy could be the thing that closes the gap between how we view ourselves as caregivers and how patients perceive us to be. In a push for truly patient centered care, organizations are claiming it as part of their promised patient experience, their brand guarantee. But are they being honest with themselves?

Patient Experience

Relias

APRIL 28, 2022

Your staff should know how to handle every element in the process accurately and efficiently, starting when a patient first accesses the system and ending when the account is paid. How Clinical Documentation Integrity Affects Revenue. CDI Affects More Than Financial Health. How CDI Affects Your Organization’s Quality of Care.

Medicaid

Diversity Nursing

AUGUST 19, 2024

Here’s a look at some of the key ways hospitals are leveraging technology to support their Nursing workforce: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Mobile Documentation Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have revolutionized the way patient information is documented and accessed.

Telemedicine

Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 4, 2023

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.

Chief Nursing Officer

Diversity Nursing

JULY 19, 2023

These devices can wirelessly transmit patient information such as vital signs, blood sugars, and ECG patterns to Nurses to quickly analyze and interpret the data. Electronic Health Records Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have revolutionized how Nurses manage patient information and care.

Care coordination

Consult QD

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They document aromatherapy usage as an intervention/comfort measure in the electronic medical record under the pain section on the vital sign flow sheet. While they haven’t studied the data yet, anecdotal evidence suggests that aromatherapy supports the patient experience.

Holistic Care

American Nurse

JULY 21, 2023

When there is nothing wrong with the patient’s integument, nurses giddily write in their assessment: skin is clean, dry, and intact. Years ago, I admitted a patient with an archipelago of pressure injuries scattered where bony prominences were found that took me 45 minutes to fully assess at the bedside.

Health Literacy

American Nurse

AUGUST 1, 2024

This comprehensive document reflects more than a dusting off of its 2016 predecessor, with the very name of the specialty changed to nursing leadership from nursing administration. We also wanted to make sure that this document didn’t get shelved but was available for and used by all leaders within an organization.” Q02B6x_K0 ).

Leadership

Consult QD

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In a literature review of 25 studies with adult patients conducted by the Office of Patient Experience at Cleveland Clinic, researchers found that plan-of-care visits reduced hospital length of stay, readmission, mortality, adverse events and inpatient costs and enhanced the patient experience.

Chief Nursing Officer

Health Leaders | Nursing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The third team member, a veteran nurse, is in the telehealth center, monitoring patients and assisting the bedside team (as well as doctors) with documentation and consults. The virtual nurse, meanwhile, sits in the background, offering support when needed, answering calls from patients, and keeping watch over several rooms.

Telemedicine

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Changes in patient experiences of hospital care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Preventing falls in hospitalized patients: State of the science. nsinursingsolutions.com/Documents/Library/NSI_National_Health_Care_Retention_Report.pdf May 19, 2023. JAMA Health Forum. 2023;4(8)e232766. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.2766

Patient Satisfaction

Health Leaders | Nursing

JANUARY 2, 2024

Smart rooms and smart room technology also will add to further advancement in patient monitoring, and help take some of the burden off nurses. Smart rooms can hear and listen, which opens up the possibility of real-time transcription of the documentation nurses record for patients.

Chief Nursing Officer

Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Across the entire patient experience, Nurses have a hand in almost every aspect of the patient's healthcare journey. Nurses are compassionate, and dedicated, and work tirelessly to meet the needs of their patients. Every Patient is a Priority, but You May Have to Wait. Nursing is a busy and fast-paced profession.

Care coordination

Scrubs

MARCH 21, 2023

He added that medical payers now require so much documentation related to patients that “it’s almost an arms race.” The AI is sold under the name Dragon Ambient Experience or DAX. “Nobody went into medicine to write notes or fill out insurance authorization forms,” said J. You could miss critical information.”

Physician Office

American Nurse

AUGUST 1, 2023

Ensure the head of the patient’s bed is elevated. Document input and output. Spinal cord compression (neurologic emergency) Monitor the patient’s airway, breathing, and circulation. Monitor the patient for steroid-induced diabetes. Document input and output. Perform ongoing neurologic assessments.

Promotion

American Nurse

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

During medication administration, nurses go beyond the routine checklist of the 11 Rs for safe medication administration (right patient, medication, dose, route, time, assessment, evaluation, documentation, right to refuse, right education, and right reason).

Pharmaceutical

Nurse.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The nurses who received frequent patient experience reports and experienced quality improvement efforts as integrated into patient care did not report feeling burned out. When nurses are heard, they feel valued, more engaged, and more empowered to make improvements in patient care,” she added.

Nurse Practitioner

Health Leaders | Nursing

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It was a heavy lift because we had to standardize that EMR documentation and then we had to make it mobile. When you're changing nursing practice at this level, and doing it right in front of patients and physicians and other caregivers, you have to be certain that you've got it pretty correct before you start launching it across the system.

Nursing Informatics

Health Leaders | Nursing

APRIL 19, 2024

A proposed rule change from the state’s Health and Human Services Commission would not allow an adult “to be away from the home for any period of time” whenever a nurse is providing services, according to documents obtained by The Texas Tribune.

Medicaid

Daily Nurse

MARCH 21, 2024

In the classroom, high ideals and ethics are discussed: successful nurses are organized in their thinking and documentation; they’re determined to be empathetic and efficient.” If you can change your thoughts, you can also change your experience and your patients’ experience. And sometimes, we’ll fail and fail again.

Patient Experience

Health Leaders | Nursing

MAY 20, 2024

"Our goals with it initially, and I would say they have morphed a bit over time," Brown said, "[were] really to redesign the work so that we could remove some work from our nurses that were at the bedside to try to make their experience while they were at work better." Phase two will focus on operations and implementing in-room technology.

Bedside nursing

Consult QD

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Clinical nurses also rely on a resource book created by the Bereavement Committee that offers advice on taking care of and talking to a patient who has lost a baby. The book also includes required documentation for state agencies and funeral homes.

Nurse Manager

Health Leaders | Nursing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Virtua executives say the platform aims to streamline patient care “from routine admit and discharge activities to documentation, fall prevention, and clinician safety.” [See also: Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing.]

Telemedicine

Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

Improving patient experience scores is a goal for many healthcare organizations — and for good reason. Patient experience is directly tied to patient retention, reimbursement, and in many cases, better patient outcomes. Does patient satisfaction equal better health outcomes?

Patient Satisfaction

Amercan Journal of Nursing

JULY 31, 2023

Staja Booker, PhD, RN It’s 10:00, 15 hours postoperative, and your patient has eaten breakfast and is resting comfortably in bed. You ask the patient, “On a scale of zero to 10, how much pain are you having right now?” The patient replies “zero, as long as I don’t move.” Most nurses are happy when patients report no pain.

Patient Experience

IntelyCare

APRIL 12, 2024

Focusing on the 6 Cs of nursing in each of your patient interactions can elevate the level of care you provide. No matter your level of nursing education or practice area, putting these concepts into practice will make a positive impact on care quality and the patient experience. What do we mean by this?

Communication

American Nurse

JUNE 9, 2023

Each unit has a dedicated wound care nurse, a unit secretary to organize patients paper charts, and a transport aide to help move patients for procedures and to bring specimens to the lab. KL also had recently updated its electronic documentation and helipad, and created an evidence-based geriatric unit design.

Mental Health

Health Leaders | Nursing

JUNE 28, 2024

Alongside addressing admission and discharge times, key elements of a patient’s length of stay, they’re looking at care coordination and management and documentation compliance. Analytics and reporting are part of the process, Klahn says, because “you’ve got to demonstrate ROI early on.”

Care coordination

Health Leaders | Nursing

JUNE 7, 2024

Patient satisfaction. With the industry’s gradual shift to value-based care, health systems are placing more emphasis on patient experience—and a virtual nursing program can have a profound impact on how a patient feels about the care they receive.

Patient Satisfaction

Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 15, 2024

Many of the tasks that the virtual nurse does are what the primary care nurse can give to them, including shift reports, admissions and discharges, care coordination, and reviewing the record to make sure there is no missing documentation. The virtual nurse also helps develop patient care plans and support new nurses.

Care coordination

Health Leaders | Nursing

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

million patients experience hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) each year, costing about $11 billion, according to the study. Nearly 24% of those incidents occur in ICU patients, as compared to up to 18% among general admission patients. Department of Health and Human Services.

Clinical Nurse Specialist

American Nurse

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Although limited by a new, untested survey, these data shed light on possible contributors to the current crisis of nurse burnout and staffing shortages as well as the serious negative impact on the well-being of both patients and nurses documented by Kieft and colleagues. Hispanic nurses’ experiences of bias in the workplace.

Self-Care