2023

Volume

2

Issue

1

Hospital A has experienced intensive care unit (ICU), Registered Nurse (RN), and tangible resource imbalances from the COVID-19 pandemic. This has perpetuated the organization’s financial and logistical difficulties in sustaining reliable, quality service delivery. The ICU RNs have identified documentation policy and practice as a persistent burden to meeting stakeholders’ modern needs. Research has identified that electronic health record documentation may be associated with unnecessary burdens that negatively impact RN workflows, direct patient care time, and operational efficiencies. The investigator aims to better understand and illustrate the department’s most impactful post-pandemic documentation-related burdens to determine associations, conclusions, and recommendations regarding existing RN documentation policy.

Intensive Care, Registered Nurse Documentation Burden in a Limited Resource, Post-Pandemic Era

By:
Kimberly
Cohen
Hospital A has experienced intensive care unit (ICU), Registered Nurse (RN), and tangible resource imbalances from the COVID-19 pandemic. This has perpetuated the organization’s financial and logistical difficulties in sustaining reliable, quality service delivery. The ICU RNs have identified documentation policy and practice as a persistent burden to meeting stakeholders’ modern needs. Research has identified that electronic health record documentation may be associated with unnecessary burdens that negatively impact RN workflows, direct patient care time, and operational efficiencies. The investigator aims to better understand and illustrate the department’s most impactful post-pandemic documentation-related burdens to determine associations, conclusions, and recommendations regarding existing RN documentation policy.
Published:
May 23, 2023
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The healthcare administration concern that this paper address is the retention of registered nurses and some factors that impede the retention of registered nurses. Registered nurses are a vital part of the healthcare industry. Issues such as staffing, unsafe nurse-to-patient ratios, nurse burnout, and sometimes low job satisfaction can contribute to nurses leaving a healthcare organization, bedside nursing, or the nursing profession altogether. The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to decreased job satisfaction for nurses, among increased stress. Studies show that more needs to be done to help nurses. This help includes safe nurse-to-patient ratios, good benefits, work-life balance, and continuing education to help nurses enhance their careers and reduce the burnout that they are feeling. Supporting nurses can contribute to nurse retention within an organization.

Nurse Job Satisfaction: Can it Contribute to Nurse Retention for Healthcare Facilities

By:
Megan
Drost
The healthcare administration concern that this paper address is the retention of registered nurses and some factors that impede the retention of registered nurses. Registered nurses are a vital part of the healthcare industry. Issues such as staffing, unsafe nurse-to-patient ratios, nurse burnout, and sometimes low job satisfaction can contribute to nurses leaving a healthcare organization, bedside nursing, or the nursing profession altogether. The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to decreased job satisfaction for nurses, among increased stress. Studies show that more needs to be done to help nurses. This help includes safe nurse-to-patient ratios, good benefits, work-life balance, and continuing education to help nurses enhance their careers and reduce the burnout that they are feeling. Supporting nurses can contribute to nurse retention within an organization.
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May 23, 2023
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Meeting with the providers to educate them on the benefits of both the linked and unlinked appointment schematic can help to increase awareness and understanding as well as improve their compliance in using them appropriately. Discussing with them how the scheduling the system works and what the impact in both circumstances brings to all involved and the The workflow will hope to improve compliance as well. Ensuring that included in this education needs to be reviewed the issues of the rising cost of care for Oncology patients, especially as it relates to chemotherapy drugs. Finding ways to implement cost-saving initiatives while not impacting the quality of the care delivered is crucial for the healthcare system

Unlinked vs. Linked Appointments in Oncology Infusion Centers

By:
Loreen
Murphy
Meeting with the providers to educate them on the benefits of both the linked and unlinked appointment schematic can help to increase awareness and understanding as well as improve their compliance in using them appropriately. Discussing with them how the scheduling the system works and what the impact in both circumstances brings to all involved and the The workflow will hope to improve compliance as well. Ensuring that included in this education needs to be reviewed the issues of the rising cost of care for Oncology patients, especially as it relates to chemotherapy drugs. Finding ways to implement cost-saving initiatives while not impacting the quality of the care delivered is crucial for the healthcare system
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May 23, 2023
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Historically, professional associations have demonstrated poor enrollment in national and state membership, but since 2021, association leaders have been concerned with the decline in organizational membership. Of most significant concern is whether this trend in healthcare is related to the symbiotic relationships between the profession and practitioners, the economic instability ushered in by the Covid-19 pandemic, or the association's inability to force engagement and deter membership churn. These concerns have given rise to the focus on marketing strategies and retention tactics associations can embrace to grow their membership. According to Mroueh (2017), Associations perform an essential role in developing a profession by organizing professionals into a community where relevant information and knowledge are shared, ideas expanded, contacts with other like-minded professionals made, a code of ethics established, and appropriate practices for members identified. However, for an association to be influential, it must perform at the highest quality level.

Professional Association Membership Decline; A Survey Study for the Connecticut Society for Respiratory Care

By:
Annalisa
Pope
Historically, professional associations have demonstrated poor enrollment in national and state membership, but since 2021, association leaders have been concerned with the decline in organizational membership. Of most significant concern is whether this trend in healthcare is related to the symbiotic relationships between the profession and practitioners, the economic instability ushered in by the Covid-19 pandemic, or the association's inability to force engagement and deter membership churn. These concerns have given rise to the focus on marketing strategies and retention tactics associations can embrace to grow their membership. According to Mroueh (2017), Associations perform an essential role in developing a profession by organizing professionals into a community where relevant information and knowledge are shared, ideas expanded, contacts with other like-minded professionals made, a code of ethics established, and appropriate practices for members identified. However, for an association to be influential, it must perform at the highest quality level.
Published:
May 23, 2023
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Health literacy is required to navigate the complex healthcare system and for patients to take a protective approach to improve their health. Understanding verbal and written communication can be challenging for many people when other barriers include limited English, low socioeconomic status, elderly populations, race and ethnicity differences, and age differences (Lopez et al., 2022). According to The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2020), 12 percent of American Adults have adequate health literacy required to comprehend health information and traverse the system. Therefore, health literacy is essential to understanding health needs and information to make informed decisions. This study aims to examine participants’ knowledge of written and oral communication. The Health Literacy Patient Survey from the Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition, to patients to assess health literacy level and communication comprehension.

Improving health literacy materials and communication in healthcare settings: Health Literacy Universal Precautions. Abstract

By:
Shaleah
Richards
Health literacy is required to navigate the complex healthcare system and for patients to take a protective approach to improve their health. Understanding verbal and written communication can be challenging for many people when other barriers include limited English, low socioeconomic status, elderly populations, race and ethnicity differences, and age differences (Lopez et al., 2022). According to The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2020), 12 percent of American Adults have adequate health literacy required to comprehend health information and traverse the system. Therefore, health literacy is essential to understanding health needs and information to make informed decisions. This study aims to examine participants’ knowledge of written and oral communication. The Health Literacy Patient Survey from the Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition, to patients to assess health literacy level and communication comprehension.
Published:
May 23, 2023
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The Institute of Medicine determines care coordination to be an essential strategy that has the potential to expand the effectiveness, safety, and efficiency of the American healthcare system (Care Coordination, n.d). Care coordination in a hospital setting is essential to ensure that all patient care activities and information is organized and shared well among all the patient care team participants (Peikes et al., 2009). This includes making everyone on the team aware of the patient’s needs and preferences to ensure a smooth transition (Perrin, K.M, 2022). This will ensure that the right people at the right time can provide appropriate, safe, and effective care for the patient.

Improve Care Coordination After Hospital Discharge

By:
Klaudia
Vuktilaj
The Institute of Medicine determines care coordination to be an essential strategy that has the potential to expand the effectiveness, safety, and efficiency of the American healthcare system (Care Coordination, n.d). Care coordination in a hospital setting is essential to ensure that all patient care activities and information is organized and shared well among all the patient care team participants (Peikes et al., 2009). This includes making everyone on the team aware of the patient’s needs and preferences to ensure a smooth transition (Perrin, K.M, 2022). This will ensure that the right people at the right time can provide appropriate, safe, and effective care for the patient.
Published:
May 23, 2023
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