How HCA Healthcare Is Empowering Clinical Nurse Coordinators Through Innovation
Bedside nurses are the backbone of the healthcare industry, and it’s the CNO’s job to advocate for their needs and uplift their voices. This means giving nurse leaders on the frontline the resources they need to be efficient and effective.
How to Create a Compelling Educational Webinar
This is a comprehensive guide and checklist for creating and producing a compelling webinar that attracts the right audience, engages participants during the session, and connects with and converts them afterward—with a specific focus on solutions that reduce healthcare-associated infections, enhance patient safety, and improve clinical outcomes.
Virtual Care Scores a Big Win in Diabetes Prevention
The proposal is a huge win for telehealth advocates and healthcare providers who want to reach more people at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, especially those who have problems accessing in-person treatment.
Rural Emergency Rooms Are Increasingly Run Without Doctors
Emergency medicine researchers and providers believe ERs, especially in rural areas, increasingly operate with few or no physicians amid a nationwide shortage of doctors.
Infection Prevention That Pays Off: Making the Case for Universal Nasal Decolonization
Karen Hoffmann RN, MS, BSN, CIC, FAPIC, FSHEA Connie Steed MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC Infection prevention and control programs are essential to patient safety, but too often they’re viewed as cost centers rather than strategic assets. How can healthcare systems reposition IP programs as value-generating initiatives? In this Q&A, industry veterans and former APIC presidents … Continued
How to Actually Execute Value-Based Care
Value-based care has continued to shift from aspiration to expectation. But as it does, many organizations are facing a familiar problem: they have a vision of where they want to go, but don’t have the infrastructure to get there.
Follow-Up Imaging Is Challenging. Here’s How to Improve It.
Follow-up imaging can require complicated processes to set up studies and make sure they are completed, with multiple clinicians often involved in a patient’s care. Establishing standardized processes is crucial, and artificial intelligence has the potential to improve radiology workflows.
How Ambient Listening Is Revolutionizing Bedside Nursing at Tampa General Hospital
Ambient listening technology in its simplest form records and transcribes conversations between a patient and a clinician during appointments. More complex algorithms that incorporate AI are able to pinpoint key phrases or terminology that can be added to the clinical note.
How Should Hospitals Prepare for Active Shooter Threats?
By integrating existing policies and infrastructures—such as training systems, command centers, and communication protocols—healthcare organizations can ensure consistency, efficiency, and interoperability in emergency scenarios.
Declining Nurse Engagement? Here’s What to Do About It.
If CNOs want to continue to attract and retain nurses in the profession, they need to get back in touch with the workforce and address the underlying causes of what makes nurses feel disengaged.