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Creating a Disaster Simulation for Nursing Students

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Finding a gap in student knowledge. We taught the students how to use the SMART triage tagging system and pre-briefed them on general emergency management information. The SMART triage tagging system is a tagging system used for quickly triaging and prioritizing care of victims during a mass casualty.

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Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections is Everybody's Job, Not Just Nurses

Health Leaders | Nursing

Teamwork, along with communication and awareness, can build an effective infection prevention program. Vance spoke to HealthLeaders about how communication, awareness, and teamwork can contribute to an effective IP program. Infection prevention and control is fundamental to providing safe and high-quality patient care.

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Part 2: 6 Ways CNOs are Improving Teamwork for 2024

Health Leaders | Nursing

Here are some more ways that CNOs are approaching teamwork in 2024: Share power Another key to cultivating a rich and rewarding professional environment: Giving nurses a say in the strategy. Be knowledgeable about the social determinants of health that are important to those you are serving and align strategies accordingly.”

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The Exec: Nurse Satisfaction is Rising, Patient Calls are Falling with UnityPoint Health's New Care Model

Health Leaders | Nursing

We are onboarding the majority of our nurses and most clinical areas are new to practice, and it creates a compression gap in terms of the knowledge base when you're trying to rapidly get these folks in and get them productive. More than a 10% increase in patient communication with nurses using the model at two of our hospitals.

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The Exec: For Advocate Health's Chief of Staff, 'It's All About the Team'

Health Leaders | Nursing

Carol Lovin, MHSA, MA, chief of staff and chief integration officer for Advocate Health, speaks about the power of teamwork and the integration that's ahead for the system this year. I'm sure I could, but it's hard to imagine doing the work that I do without having that firsthand knowledge and experience on the clinical side.