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

Daily Nurse

MARCH 17, 2025

.” Grounded in national standards set by each specialty, nursing specialty certification promotes consumer confidence and contributes to better patient care, outcomes, and higher patient satisfaction. One of BCEN’s most generous promotions to date, the offer is also a nod to BCEN’s 45th anniversary year.

Promotion

American Nurse

JULY 28, 2025

However, research notes that relief of pain, as a singular indicator of a woman’s satisfaction with labor and birth, isn’t the most important factor. Camann, an obstetric anesthesiologist, acknowledges Hodnett’s landmark review of maternal satisfaction in childbirth. Follow the evidence Although more U.S. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med.

Patient Satisfaction

American Medical Compliance

MARCH 13, 2025

Be Documented : Maintain records of training sessions for accountability and future reference. 5. Ensuring compliance isnt just about avoiding penaltiesits about boosting efficiency and fostering trust with patients and staff. Be Comprehensive : Cover all aspects of the policies to ensure staff can effectively uphold them.

Medicare

Scrubs

JANUARY 22, 2024

Amidst this chaos enters a hero—the healthcare document scanner , a tool that is fast becoming as essential to healthcare practices as stethoscopes and scrubs. Let’s delve into the heart of how this technology is reshaping the landscape of healthcare documentation. However, taking the leap isn’t as daunting as it appears.

HIPAA

Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

Patient experience is directly tied to patient retention, reimbursement, and in many cases, better patient outcomes. As a result, many organizations continuously look for new ways to improve their patient satisfaction as efficiently and effectively as possible. How can you raise your patient satisfaction scores?

Patient Satisfaction

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

Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The technology, which is transparent to the bedside team, should be able to document and understand what happened in the room and push it into the electronic medical record. Imagine if you’re giving them one hour back rather than them doing these documentation tasks. HCAHPS increased dramatically for patient satisfaction.

Self-Care

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Nursing units—the heart of patient care—are experiencing an existential crisis, and many hospitals grapple with pressing issues. Research indicates that patient fall rates are higher than acceptable, patient satisfaction scores are below targets, and staff turnover rates continue to rise. Clin Geriatr Med.

Patient Satisfaction

Health Leaders | Nursing

APRIL 3, 2023

Mosier, who has led the Nashville, Tennessee-based healthcare system’s 93,000 RNs since the end of 2021, spoke with HealthLeaders about how HCA vigorously embraces technology to decrease redundant or unnecessary documentation so nurses can increase the time they spend with patients. So that's really exciting. Our pilots are going well.

Patient Satisfaction

Healthy Workforce Institute

JUNE 12, 2024

Preceptors should confront issues, start documentation if necessary, and keep managers informed. Next Generation of Bullies To prevent new nurses from becoming the next generation of bullies, preceptors need to immediately confront disruptive behavior, start a documentation trail, and give managers a heads-up about any concerning behavior.

Preceptors

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Leadership agreed to keeping documentation requirements to a minimum and that all supervisors, managers, directors, and executives (clinical and nonclinical) should attend (but daily attendance wasn’t mandatory). Over the next 2 months, we designed MCI’s tiered huddle structure, agenda, reports, and documentation template.

Communication

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Several student nurses realize that their clinical instructor has it in for them, ignoring their requests for help during clinical rotations and harshly criticizing them in front of patients and peers. These statements are sadly true, and the problem is too well documented to ignore.

Preceptors

Diversity Nursing

MARCH 8, 2024

When small details go overlooked, medication, communication, and documentation errors can occur. Cultural Competence: Cultural competence in Nursing is essential for providing holistic, patient-centered care that respects the diverse values and needs of individuals of different cultural backgrounds.

Patient Advocacy

American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 7, 2024

After all, a safe workplace contributes to better staff performance and higher patient satisfaction. For example, CMS requires accurate and timely documentation of patient care to ensure proper billing and reimbursement. Conduct regular risk assessments to identify potential compliance issues and areas for improvement.

HIPAA

Relias

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Ensure incidents are documented and promptly addressed. In severe cases, it can lead to physical symptoms like insomnia, weight changes, or even cardiac problems. Key action items: Train managers on how to handle reports of violence and support affected staff. Hold regular team meetings where issues can be openly discussed.

Communication

Daily Nurse

MAY 2, 2023

The Magnet recognition has proven beneficial to healthcare organizations, their patients, and their communities. Organizations reapply for recognition every four years and submit documented evidence that staff has sustained and improved Magnet concepts, performance, and quality since its previous designation. “We

Chief Nursing Officer

Nurse.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

When nurses are heard, they feel valued, more engaged, and more empowered to make improvements in patient care,” she added. Impact on patient care There’s been a well-documented shortage of nurses , but this shortage also extends to physicians.

Nurse Practitioner

Consult QD

MAY 12, 2023

Secondarily, the fellows suggested creating new shift structures, re-evaluating documentation requirements, improving ease of floating for sites and departments, establishing enhanced accountability and more. Our hope is that our work will improve turnover and caregiver and patient satisfaction,” Connelly added.

Nursing Informatics

American Nurse

MARCH 2, 2023

The document acknowledges overlapping care responsibilities and minimum standards of education and training for community paramedics that prepares them to perform expanded functions. Read the full document at bit.ly/3RIu9TU. Initially, hiring the paramedics resulted in some confusion and hesitation.

Nurse Shortage

Relias

MAY 16, 2025

Embedding structured wound documentation fields into the EHR helps ensure clinicians track severity, size, drainage, and tissue type consistently, enabling trend identification and timely intervention.

Self-Care

Nurse.com

JULY 27, 2023

Regardless of your experience, applying the nursing process is vital to providing patient-centered care. These steps lead to improved patient satisfaction and individualized care. This is important to include in your documentation, as it can provide more comprehensive insight into what the patient is experiencing.

Communication

Consult QD

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Also known as collaborative medical rounds, plan-of-care visits are designed to ensure that a patient’s clinical nurse and primary physician or advanced care provider are actively engaged in medical rounds at the patient’s bedside. The clinical team and patient develop a treatment plan together, including a tentative discharge date. •

Chief Nursing Officer

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

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

JUNE 15, 2023

Failing to attend to your soft skills, like communication, emotional intelligence, and collaboration can result in conflict with your colleagues, decreased patient satisfaction, and even medical errors. Failing to Develop Soft Skills Mistake: Soft skills are a crucial aspect of healthcare but are hard to measure.

Work-Life Balance

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

Relias

JANUARY 19, 2024

Automate documentation One of the key challenges in compliance management is the extensive documentation required to demonstrate adherence to regulations. Manual documentation processes are time-consuming and prone to human errors and inconsistencies.

Patient Satisfaction

Consult QD

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Rigorous requirements Applying for Magnet status takes months of hard work in which nursing teams are required to provide evidence of excellence in clinical quality and nurse and patient satisfaction.

Patient Satisfaction

Celayix

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This includes speaking with the patient, their family, and any relevant staff members involved in the patient’s care. It can help to document everything so that you can review this with your patient later. It’s important to make sure that the patient is satisfied with the resolution.

Home Healthcare

Relias

JULY 4, 2023

Missed revenue targets can affect care quality and decrease patient satisfaction. Charging occurs in the clinical departments, but patient accounting acts as the gatekeeper. Clinical health Clinical health departments provide medical diagnoses and charge patients for services.

Best Practices

Nurse Code

JULY 4, 2022

The Nurse Manager’s Resume is a document created to show the qualifications of an applicant for a job title. Although both a resume and a Curriculum Vitae (CV) are documents that detail a person’s work history, a Nursing Management Resume is typically shorter. Use fonts that are bold and formal.

Resume

Nurse.com

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Inadequate health literacy can affect timely access to care, continuity of care, and patient satisfaction. It can also contribute to low compliance with discharge instructions, which can increase the chances that a patient will be readmitted.

Health Literacy

Relias

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Rarely does a single provider or clinician handle every aspect of a patient’s care. Better patient outcomes : The USF study attributed decreased patient length of stay to several transformational leadership behaviors that led to better staff engagement and higher adherence to safe practices.

Leadership

Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

In one widely reported incident involving a fatal medication error , the nurse noted that her fatigue from working a double shift the previous day played a major role in the negative patient safety outcome that occurred. Increase the likelihood that your nurses will stay by focusing on communication and collaboration.

Nurse Shortage

Nurse Deck

MAY 17, 2023

For instance, you could cite the number of patients you managed daily, the percentage by which you reduced medication errors, or the number of staff members you trained or led. Highlighting your impact: Describe how your work has made a tangible difference in your previous roles.

Resume

Relias

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A robust healthcare learning management platform can help IHS document and report its learning activities and outcomes to demonstrate accountability and quality improvement.

Health Literacy

Relias

JUNE 23, 2022

With the versatility that diversity brings, your competitors can achieve better gains in patient satisfaction and health outcomes. Because your organization’s hiring practices are the first step toward improving your organization’s diversity, make sure to to carefully plan out and document these processes for fairness and inclusion.

Work-Life Balance