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FierceHealthcare
Nurses have a wealth of experience in medicine, and they're tapping into that knowledge to foster innovation across the industry with new products and approaches.
The expanding influence of health IT has opened the doors for nurse leadership opportunities. Nurses are not only playing a larger role in health information and data analytics efforts, but also finding technology can make their jobs easier and their workflows more efficient.
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Occupational Health & Safety
On Sept. 16, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule instituting new emergency preparedness requirements for healthcare facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The implementation date for the Conditions of Participation requirement is Nov. 15. The new regulations apply to 17 provider types, including hospitals, critical access hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers and long-term care facilities.
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Just six months after El Camino Hospital in Silicon Valley implemented artificial intelligence technology, the rate at which patients suffered dangerous falls dropped 39 percent. The key, alongside additional fall prevention strategies, was a software program that predicts which individuals are most likely to fall by combing over electronic health records for risk factors and merging the data discovered there with real-time tracking of patients.
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EMS1.com
The opioid crisis is better understood as a fentanyl crisis with real dangers to emergency responders, according to an expert-panel presentation convened in Las Vegas at EMS World Expo 2017.
The panel discussion, sponsored by Bound Tree Medical, included a Drug Enforcement Administration chemist and an EMS medical director, and focused on the risks to fentanyl exposure and contamination to EMTs, paramedics, firefighters and police officers.
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Healthcare IT News
Women work for free an average of 10 weeks per year, due to the gender pay gap, according to a new analysis from The Washington Post.
The pay gap varies by occupation, work hours, education, experience and geography, which dictate how many hours are women spend essentially working worked free.
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HealthLeaders Media
Hospitals and health systems have not typically prioritized nurse manager training and development. But that's changing as healthcare leaders begin to recognize the critical role nurse managers play in achieving an organization's outcomes and initiatives.
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Keith Carlson
A new study by Reuters reveals that a significant and troubling nursing shortage is currently impacting rural and community hospitals around the United States.
With the rising costs of healthcare delivery and operations coupled with an aging population and an increasing number of retiring nurses not being readily replaced by new graduates, certain hospitals are struggling to keep their heads above water when it comes to nursing labor.
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WKMG-TV
Medical professionals familiar with patient injuries linked to Da Vinci robotic surgical procedures told WKMG-TV there are some surgeons who shouldn't be performing those surgeries because they don't have enough experience.
An Arizona physician, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, "The assumption is that you already are competent and (have hospital privileges) to perform laparoscopic surgery. The requirement to be privileged in robotic surgery is three cases."
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Award-winning Sentinel City® was designed by nurse educators for use in population health and other nursing courses. It provides students with simulated clinical hours through integrated Home and Family Support Assessments, nursing diagnosis and final care plan creation. It includes 17 complete assignments with AACN Essentials mapping and grading rubrics. Learn More!
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“Simulation made easy…” , our goal is to make your training more effective, expanding the range of your training , not your training complications. We have been helping medical and emergency service educators deliver better training outcomes with their students and staff for over 50 years- SIMULAIDS: “Training for Life.”
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Christina Thielst
Change Healthcare recently surveyed consumers, payers and providers to gain insight on their unique perspectives regarding consumer engagement investments and effectiveness. The findings demonstrate that value-based care is propelling investment in consumer engagement, but consumers are still thirsting for change, relevance and access.
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Healthcare Finance News
The American Hospital Association has put a price tag on violence when it comes to what it costs hospitals, and it's a hefty one.
A new AHA report showed both proactive and reactive violence response efforts contributed $2.7 billion in costs for hospitals and health systems in 2016. By far, the largest share of the costs was the $1.1 billion in prevention and preparedness costs for violence within hospitals.
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Futurism
Living in a modern age, one would think that suicide would be a less common occurrence. Sadly, that isn’t the case, and the World Health Organization reports that worldwide suicide rates have increased by 60 percent in the last 45 years. Current statistics show that some 1 million people die from suicide each year, and the WHO anticipates that by 2020 global suicide rate will have increased from one every 40 seconds we see today to one every 20 seconds. That’s incredibly alarming.
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U.S. News & World Report
The days are long past when the only career doors that readily opened to young women were those marked teacher, secretary or nurse. Yet young adults who are part of the millennial generation are nearly twice as likely as baby boomers were to choose the nursing profession, according to a recent study.
These young people, born between 1982 and 2000, are also 60 percent more likely to become registered nurses than the Gen X'ers who were born between 1965 and 1981.
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