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Scheduling made easier with machine learning

If you take a proactive approach with your shift planning, it benefits the overall effectiveness of your system. By knowing in advance how to schedule the right number of staff at the right times, you and your managers can find ways to optimize labor costs by reducing unnecessary overtime, as well as avoiding turnover and burnout by ensuring proper rejuvenation time between shifts.

May 10, 2023

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Flexible scheduling system can help HR leaders improve staff retention

Scheduling software not only makes healthcare staff scheduling for nurse leadership more manageable and efficient, it can also assist human resource (HR) leaders with overcoming the growing workforce challenges they face.

May 03, 2023

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Meet The Gen Z Worker: A New Generation Enters the Workforce

There’s a new generational cohort that’s just beginning to enter the workforce, and like Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers before them, they are bringing with them their own unique goals, preferences, and ideals.

May 02, 2023

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Advancing Maternal Health Equity

Public reporting of maternity measures, “birthing-friendly” hospital designations, and federally mandated programs aim to drive change in the U.S.’s dismal outcomes on maternal health. Your organization can help move the needle on safe, high-quality, and equitable care for mothers and babies through evidence-based training.

April 25, 2023

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Hawai’i State Center for Nursing achieves stellar retention success with Nurse Residency

April 21, 2023

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Analyzing Physician Engagement - Physician Ratings of Admin Skills

In this article by Dr. Randy Carden, Senior Research Consultant, from the most recent issue of HealthStream's PX Advisor, we seek to answer two questions that have recently been posed to HealthStream by a client who participates in our physician satisfaction and engagement survey, Physician Insights.

April 21, 2023

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Using Innovative Technologies to Engage Learners

The application of virtual simulation in educational training has been happening for over a decade, and it is quickly gaining momentum. Virtual patient care simulations can be astonishingly accurate, presenting the learner with patient conditions and responses that are not duplicated in the same way by manikins or actors.

April 12, 2023

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Best Practices for Professional Practice Evaluation: Measure and Monitor Provider Performance

Learn industry-leading best practices healthcare systems can leverage to ensure quality and safety.

April 11, 2023

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Preparing for the Surge in Onboarding Medical Assistants

The job of Medical Assistant is and is likely to continue to be one of the fastest-growing jobs in the U.S. As healthcare organizations find new ways to incorporate Medical Assistants into their organization to address staff shortages, it is important to find efficient and cost-effective ways to safely incorporate them into staffing solutions. That begins with Medical Assistant Orientation to help ensure that Medical Assistants in your organization are providing safe, consistent and high-quality care.

April 07, 2023

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Achieving Efficiency in Student Clinical Placement

Clinical student placement can feel chaotic and inefficient for both students and administrators trying to manage the process, but it doesn’t have to. HealthStream’s myClinicalExchange is a streamlined and systematic process that can bring order and efficiency to your clinical placements. Most importantly, a more efficient placement and onboarding process can lead to safer, higher-quality care. It can also reduce the time and the cost associated with this process.

April 06, 2023

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Evaluating the S.T.A.B.L.E. Difference in Educational Outcomes

Readiness for neonatal stabilization is important to both short and long-term neonatal outcomes. The S.T.A.B.L.E. program can have a positive impact on student scores and improve their confidence while in the NICU and is a great solution to minimize the impact of reduced clinical exposure to neonates during pediatric residency.

April 05, 2023

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Top Five Trends in Senior Care

Addressing the complexities of caring for older patients is critical for healthcare leaders. HealthStream has resources to support leaders and providers with insights into those issues and solutions that help provide the best possible outcomes for these patients.

April 04, 2023

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Introducing Workforce Validate – Work Smarter, Not Harder

Workforce Validate is a faster, easier, and more effective way to monitor workforce compliance. It can verify and flag concerns from hundreds of sources allowing leaders to take action before there is a risk to patients or the organization.

April 03, 2023

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Safe Staffing in Healthcare – Acuity vs. Ratios

Acuity-based staffing models can improve outcomes, staff satisfaction and financial performance, but require a technology solution to insure safe staffing. HealthStream’s Acuity and Assignment Manager can help leaders synthesize all of the required data to support an acuity-based staffing model.

April 03, 2023

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ShiftWizard by HealthStream Named Winner of the 2023 Workday Partner Innovation for Advanced Staff Scheduling Integration for Healthcare

March 10, 2023 — ShiftWizard™ by HealthStream™ was awarded the 2023 Workday Partner Innovation Award for Advanced Staff Scheduling Integration for Healthcare. Workday, Inc. provides on-demand financial, human capital, and information management software.

March 31, 2023

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5 Reasons Why Lifelong Learning is Essential in Healthcare

Here are 5 strong reasons lifelong learning in nursing is a long term career need in healthcare to ensure that employees stay abreast of advances in healthcare.

March 31, 2023

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Reducing the Likelihood of Cardiac Arrest

HealthStream’s ART Program is a proven evidence-based program that helps empower organizations to address patient deterioration. It equips your staff with the necessary knowledge to anticipate deterioration, recognize the risk factors that can lead to cardiac arrest, and target diagnostic and therapeutic interventions that can stabilize patients before they reach a critical stage.

March 29, 2023

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Align Staffing to Patient Demand with Acuity and Assignment Manager

HealthStream’s Acuity and Assignment Manager can help your organization with one of the most critical issues faced by healthcare leaders today – staffing. By aggregating the data that you already have, this solution can help ensure that you have all of the information you need to provide optimal care to patients while supporting staff with equitable assignments based on objective, real-time data.

March 28, 2023

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Web-based, Hassle-free Credentialing and Enrollment Software for Growing Medical Practices

When it comes to credentialing and enrollment, you simply can’t afford to skip software made for the job!

March 28, 2023

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Patient Safety In Nursing: The Nurse's Role

Learn how patient safety in nursing depends on understanding how and why we are treating patients and how that treatment affects our patients, from HealthStream.

March 24, 2023