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Seven Recommendations for Strong Healthcare Performance Management Systems

Healthcare organizations benefit when their performance management systems align with organizational goals. Our recent Webinar discussed the payoff in terms of accountability, employee satisfaction, employee engagement, etc.

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Nine Guidelines for Successfully Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims

How an organization goes about investigating a claim of sexual harassment is extremely important and can lead to better outcomes when an incident occurs. Here are 9 suggestions for conducting successful harassment investigations.

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Pay Attention to Compensation Strategy

Compensation is key to achieving critical business outcomes: engagement, retention, and increased performance. It pays to have more frequent conversations around compensation, as well as actual compensation increase that occurs outside the annual review process.

April 01, 2021

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Six Reasons Why Sexual Harassment Workplace Training Is More Important Than Ever

As part of a recent HCCS webinar, business and employment law attorney Jennifer Kearns examines six of the complicated issues involved in sexual harassment training.

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Why Revenue Cycle Management Needs to Focus on Patient Access Staff

Patient access is the gateway not only to your system but also to your revenue cycle; the importance of our colleagues who are sitting at the front desks, who are taking scheduling calls, increases exponentially.

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Understanding the Importance of Healthcare Competency Assessment Programs

Healthcare organizations understand that they need to evaluate competency, the demonstration of appropriate knowledge, skills, and behaviors in a clinical setting. Competency Programs involve validating the multiple facets of any identified, required competency.

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Four Ways to Improve the Retention Problem across the Care Continuum

Staff retention has grown to be one of the most significant challenges across the care continuum, affecting the entire healthcare industry, and connected to care quality, resident satisfaction, and healthcare outcomes. How do we tackle this problem?

April 01, 2021

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Four Webinar Recordings Focused on the Continuum of Care

Solving big problems in healthcare, like staff retention, leadership shortages, and onboarding, is a principle enshrined in our corporate constitution. Here are links to recorded HealthStream Webinars about improving outcomes by solving continuum of care problems.

April 01, 2021

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Ten Ways to Embrace Civility in the Healthcare Workplace

In a recent HealthStream webinar, How to Banish the Bully Who Wreaks Havoc in Healthcare, Linda Leekley, CEO and founder of In the Know, offers ten ways to embrace civility at work, including her secret weapon phrase, ‘Up until now.’

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The Benefits of Civility Training to Counteract Healthcare Workplace Bullying

In a recent HealthStream webinar, How to Banish the Bully Who Wreaks Havoc in Healthcare, Linda Leekley, CEO and founder of In the Know, points out numerous benefits of workplace civility training for healthcare organizations—for patients and the organizations themselves.

April 01, 2021

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Four Reasons to Focus on Patient Access Education to Improve Revenue Cycle

In a recent HealthStream Webinar, “Thinking Outside the Box: Leveraging Education to Drive Patient Access Initiatives,” two revenue cycle staffing experts offered four reasons patient access training merits a stronger focus.

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Nominate Your Organization for a HealthStream Award of Excellence Through June 22, 2018

HealthStream’s Awards of Excellence® spotlight innovative programs and superior leadership that support organizational excellence, workforce development, employee engagement, and more. Nominations accepted through June 22, 2018!

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Best Practices for Reducing Conflicts of Interest (COI) Risk in Healthcare

Compliance with government regulations and ethical concerns demand that healthcare institutions and researchers diligently disclose every conflict of interest (COI). Organizations must take steps develop a management and mitigation plan that prevents biased medical decision-making.

April 01, 2021

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Understanding the Accreditation of Nursing Transition of Practice Programs

Nurse residency programs offer a much-needed opportunity for new nurses to transition to roles in specialized areas. To be accredited demonstrates innovation or exemplary practice.

April 01, 2021

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Five Trends Demonstrate How Non-Acute Care is Changing

Non-acute care is definitely evolving. The changes that are happening across the care environment result from such demographics, new government approaches to reimbursement, and limited financial resources. Here are five of the many trends meriting attention.

April 01, 2021

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Building Skills and Confidence in CPR

Developing caregivers to provide high-quality CPR should include regular training and measurement-based feedback. One training solution may be to adopt a NASCAR style approach—training the team to perform like a pit crew.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Workforce Trends: Millennials Are Changing and Improving Healthcare

We are also approaching a situation where millennials will make up the largest percentage of the healthcare workforce, bringing a new focus to the future of care.

April 01, 2021

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Work-life Balance in a Nursing Career

Nurses can have an especially difficult time balancing work and personal life because of the increased amount of physical and emotional stress that nurses experience.

April 01, 2021

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Global Maternal Mortality Rates are Grim—And the U.S. is Not Excluded

US maternal mortality rates are the highest of any high resource country, and they are still going up. If we are going to reduce our rates as a nation, significant changes must take place in hospitals and in how we train caregivers.

April 01, 2021

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The Benefits of Nurse Residency Program Accreditation

In a recent conversation about nurse residency programs, HealthStream’s Kimberly Herold, Director of Professional Development Pathways, and Kimberley Guthrie, Senior Pathways Engagement Coach, spoke about the value of accreditation.

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