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5 Strategies to Improve Patient Education & Teaching

MAS Medical Staffing

As a new nurse or healthcare professional, you’re acutely aware that your duties extend far beyond tending to your patients’ immediate needs—and that effective patient teaching is a crucial part of your responsibilities. Research backs the importance of patient education, too. What Is Patient Education?

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Paramedics help alleviate ED staffing issues

American Nurse

As nursing shortages around the United States continue to grow, including in emergency departments (EDs), hospital systems seek innovative solutions. Some systems have resorted to paying high salaries for travel nurses or increasing patientnurse ratios to maximize staffing matrixes. Read the full document at bit.ly/3RIu9TU.

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Tracking Key Metrics to Virtual Nursing Success

Health Leaders | Nursing

The results aren’t limited to nurses, either. As these programs involve, the executives in the Mastermind class noted that virtual nursing can be used as a marketing tool to attract new talent, especially as programs grow to include work-at-home policies. Patient satisfaction.

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

Relias

The use of travel nurses cut deeply into the operating budget, leading to the elimination of some administrative positions. For example, one study documented how Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality used a gap analysis to evaluate their current state of inpatient diabetes care.

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2023 nursing trends and salary survey results

American Nurse

When we asked clinical nurses and nurse managers what, other than staffing, are the most important issues facing the nursing profession, salary was mentioned most often. Here’s what else they told us: Facilities would do well to bridge the pay gap between staff and travel nurses.