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Top 10 Blog Posts Published in 2019 by HealthStream

Here are the top 10 blog posts published in 2019 by HealthStream. They range in subject matter from healthcare compliance and revenue cycle to employee turnover and shortages. Other posts concentrate on the ongoing opioid crisis and specific healthcare sectors.

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Situations Where Using AI for Nurse Training Would Be Useful

Using an AI-based nurse training and assessment system like Jane could be a very effective addition to healthcare organization operations. Here are three scenarios where such a solution would be useful.

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Millennial, Gen X, & Baby Boomers, How do Their Work Ethics Differ

Understand the variance in work ethics, approach to authority, and collaboration among Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials in healthcare.

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The Impact on Healthcare From a Warmer Climate

Learn how the frequency of severe weather is expected to increase, and a warmer climate will bring its own new threats and impacts on healthcare.

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5 Ways Nurses as Advocates Benefits Healthcare

Here are 5 ways nurses as advocates for patients, themselves, their profession, and healthcare as a whole can be a great benefit to all involved.

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Six Recommendations for Non-Medical Caregiver Training for 2020

Non-medical caregiving organizations should think about using training strategically to enhance the skills and services that it offers with an eye to better preparing employees to do their jobs. Here are six specific recommendations of areas to provide focused learning.

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Compliance Concerns for Specific Continuum Environments

Compliance is truly a growing concern outside of the hospital environment. Expanded scrutiny is being applied by federal and state governments to the areas of the healthcare continuum beyond traditional acute care.

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Data-Based Learning Improves Healthcare Employee Retention and Boosts Performance

A positive outcome of using data to make learning assignments is better employee retention, which reduces operational expenses and helps achieve institutional goals more quickly.

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The Benefits of Using Artificial Intelligence to Individualize Nurse Orientation and Training

Healthcare organizations’ outcomes can benefit when they use a system based on artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure the competence, readiness, and ability of their nursing staff.

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Urgency of Preventing & Stopping Sexual Harassment

Learn why a new public urgency has caused scrutiny of handling and stopping sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace.

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How Mentoring Programs Can Enhance Performance in Healthcare

New healthcare employees greatly benefit from spending time with their counterparts who’ve been on the job a while. That said, care must be taken to ensure that the mentor’s skill set is in line with expected performance metrics.

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Using Targeted Training Content to Improve Non-Medical Caregiver Effectiveness

Non-medical caregivers can benefit from targeted education that matches specific needs, like dementia and chronic disease care, of the populations they serve.

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Connect Core Competencies and Tasks to Targeted Learning for Healthcare Staff

Performance-guided learning takes employee education from a must-do workplace task and turns it into a more meaningful and personalized experience.

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Don’t Be in Denial - Five Key Things to Know About Credentialing and Participation

In healthcare credentialing, there’s confusion about what it means to be a “participating” provider, which is key to avoiding claim denials. How to ensure providers are participating was the focus of a recent VerityStream webinar.

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The Challenge of Developing Critical Thinking in New Nurses

How can a healthcare organization know that nurses new to the profession or moving to a new department are qualified and able to provide high quality care? They need to know about nursing care challenges as soon as possible, and preferably before patients experience them.

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Create a Multifaceted Revenue Cycle Employee Development Path to Strengthen Retention

There are a growing number of ways to meet the career development expectations of healthcare revenue cycle employees. Consider mentorship/apprenticeship opportunities for both new and seasoned team members.

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Healthcare Training and Development that Uses AI Individualizes the Learning Experience

Healthcare workplace development driven by artificial intelligence (AI) can help organizations pinpoint clinician competency improvement efforts as part of achieving great outcomes. Managers can use assessment results to create individual training programs for employees.

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3 Myths about Training For Non-Medical Caregivers

Our goal is to debunk myths about training in the direct medical caregiver environment and uncover ways training is an opportunity to support career development.

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Prepare For Climate Change Related Health Risks

You should be asking if your healthcare organization is prepared to adapt to the potential threats climate change and global warming could bring.

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3 Key Benefits of Paperless Privileging

It’s imperative to tackle the barriers to implementation paperless privileging with communication about its key benefits. After discussing the barriers, we address the benefits.

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