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Make Certain Performance Rewards for Healthcare Staff Are Adaptable

One of the most recognizable influences in today’s workplace environment is diversity. A recognition program therefore should embrace creative options to reward all involved and to keep the initiative from going stale.

April 1st, 2021

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Make Sure Rewards for Healthcare Staff Are Relevant and Timely

Leaders should know what forms of reward and recognition mean the most to their employees. The Leadership Institute recommends utilizing a Reward and Recognition Motivation Assessment which may be filled out by new employees at the time they complete their pre-hire paperwork and then forwarded to each person’s leader.

April 1st, 2021

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Use Various Public Recognition Strategies to Reward Healthcare Staff

We believe that everyone in an organization deserves a chance to be a hero—to make a difference; thus we recommend tiers of recognition and awards. Your award system can be similar or take a different form. Use your own judgment about the culture you want to create. And remember it may take time to make it happen.

April 1st, 2021

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Building a Quality Nursing Workforce with Training, Assessments, and Technology

NurseCompetency is on a mission to create a safer healthcare environment for patients and healthcare workers through the use of current, clinically relevant education, assessments, and technology. Creating a quality workforce improves outcomes and patient experiences.

April 1st, 2021

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The Leader's Role in Creating and Promoting Standards of Performance for Healthcare

This blog post continues our series of HealthStream Coaching's patient experience best practices. Every week we share information from our coaches that demonstrates their expansive understanding of the challenges faced by healthcare organizations and the solutions they have identified for improving the patient experience and patient and business outcomes. This week we examine Creating Your Own Standards of Performance for Healthcare.

April 1st, 2021

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One Doctor's Plan to Overhaul Primary Care

Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, co-founder of Iora Health, says health coaches have the power to heal the delivery system. The health coach model is different than disease management programs in which nurses in a call center monitor patients. Rather, a health coach meets face-to-face with patients to help improve their health and welfare.

April 1st, 2021

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You’re Already a Healthcare Data Visualization Expert

The term data visualization may already be in your vocabulary or you may have heard it quickly in a discussion about charts or reports. Anyway, don’t worry that it's some new class you have to take or concept that you will be forced to use. Whether you realize it or not you’re already an expert. Actually, if you work in a hospital you’re a leading authority on data visualization.

April 1st, 2021

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Medical Device Training's Impact on Healthcare Quality Improvements

This blog post excerpts an article by Danielle R. Coleman, Director of Medical Technologies, HealthStream, in the Fall 2014 issue of HealthStream's PX Advisor, our quarterly magazine focused on improving the patient experience.

April 1st, 2021

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Tie the Standards of Performance to Healthcare Employee Practices

The Standards of Performance can be used in numerous ways to help select applicants who are well suited to the healthcare organization’s culture. For example, some organizations attach a copy of the Standards to employment applications. Then potential employees are asked if they can live by the defined behaviors and if they are willing to sign a statement of agreement.

April 1st, 2021

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What are Standards of Performance and How Do They Impact Healthcare Culture?

Standards of performance comprise the code of behaviors that clearly communicates the way you want every employee in your organization to act when approaching a customer or providing a service. Another way to think of the standards is a set of expectations used to define the specific ways that staff members are to conduct themselves in the work environment and during the performance of their duties.

April 1st, 2021

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Use Targeted Pulse Surveys to Achieve Healthcare Workforce Alignment

As an essential part of an organization’s workforce strategy, the annual employee engagement survey provides organization-wide feedback for an overall view of the health of an organization and the factors influencing business outcomes. Employee engagement is the metric that drives everything else, and when scores rise or fall, other metrics, such as financial or operational performance, and patient satisfaction can climb or dip with it.

April 1st, 2021

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Sustaining The Standards of Performance in Healthcare

In order for Standards of Performance to become ingrained in a healthcare organization's culture, they must be hardwired so that employees live and breathe them daily. Communication is the key to making a permanent connection between the Standards and the behaviors that most exemplify the culture, serving as the backbone of its success.

April 1st, 2021

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A New Way to Think About Conflicts of Interest in Medicine

On August 31st Health Economist Austin Frakt published an article in in the New York Times “TheUpshot” column suggesting “A New Way to Think About Conflicts of Interest in Medicine”.

April 1st, 2021

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Value-Based Purchasing is on the Horizon for Home Health Agencies

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published its proposal to implement a Home Health Value-based Purchasing model for Medicare-certified home health agencies (HHAs) in selected states starting in 2016. The model will test whether incentives for better care can improve outcomes in the delivery of home health services.

April 1st, 2021

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Selecting the Best Chart for Your Healthcare Data

The best chart is usually not the newest, most elaborate, or most colorful. In fact, it's often the opposite. You don’t order a medical test for a patient just because you can--don’t just use the sexiest chart available either. So, how do you determine which chart is right for your audience?

April 1st, 2021

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Education is Vital for Controlling Communicable Disease Outbreaks: AACN

AACN Shares How Education is Vital for Controlling Communicable Disease Outbreaks. The highly publicized 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak reinforced the importance of critical care knowledge, skill, and teamwork in uncertain situations to the entire healthcare community.

April 1st, 2021

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Provider Enrollment Solutions Vital for Hospital Revenue Cycle Management: White Paper

In this White Paper, HealthStream examines the new environment for Provider Enrollment and its implications for hospital and health system leaders. We present new research collected in early 2015 by HealthStream from 130 hospital and health system credentialing executives throughout the U.S. who indicate that improving the Provider Enrollment function is a high priority in their organizations.

April 1st, 2021

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Off to a Good Start: Nurse Preceptor Program Priorities and Best Practices

A comprehensive nurse preceptor program consists of structures and processes that are tied to two types of outcomes. There are no specific or prescriptive steps for developing a comprehensive program. Every organization will need to look at its culture, resources, and unique needs to determine the exact steps and content of its program. However, some universal guidelines and steps are helpful to consider when building a program from infancy.

April 1st, 2021

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HealthStream Competency Center Customer Spotlight: Kettering Health Network

Kettering Health Network was facing several challenges, including effectively managing employee competencies, standardizing its education program, improving HCAHPS scores, minimizing training inefficiencies, and improving its accreditation process. Since partnering with HealthStream, Kettering has pursued multiple solutions and, as a result, experienced significant improvements.

April 1st, 2021

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Learning From Patients: The Story of Ray

Every coach with a clinical background has a patient who has made a significant impact on his or her life--one who, while in the role of patient, has been the teacher. Ray* was that patient for me.

April 1st, 2021

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