To address the needs of readily available, relevantly skilled nurses who reflect their communities, Nightingale Education Group launched EvolvEd, which offers on-demand microlearning and micro-credentialing for nursing workforces. In this episode, Nightingale’s Dr. Kolde and Dr. Jones-Pasley discuss the critical gap between education and industry needs, the importance of developing relationships with healthcare facilities, and how working with them provides learning opportunities and draws attention to the needs of partners, nurses, and their communities.
Advocacy doesn't have to be intimidating! This episode breaks down practical steps that nurses can take to advocate for their patients and colleagues. Discover how sharing your story and using data can empower you in legislative discussions and organizational policy changes.
In this episode, we explore the innovative strategies being employed to combat workplace violence in health care settings. Join our expert panel as they share their experiences with the Stamp tool and how collaboration between frontline staff and leadership is creating a safer environment for nurses and patients alike.
Dive into the pivotal role of data in transforming nursing leadership and workforce retention strategies. Join us as we bring clarity to how harnessing this untapped resource can revolutionize patient care and employee satisfaction. Hear more during the conversation from Ascend Learning's Larissa Africa BSN, RN, CENP, FAONL, FAAN and Jennifer Fisher, DNP, APRN, NEA-BC, FACHE. This episode is sponsored by Ascend Learning – Healthcare Workforce Solutions.
Frontline nurse leaders are responsible for ethical problem solving and creating ethical environments for patients and the care team. Learn about a one-year fellowship designed to bolster leaders' ethical confidence and leadership skills. Fellows attended monthly seminars and mediation training, gaining skills to repair communication breakdown and resolve value-laden disagreement. Pre/post data collection showed fellows experienced increased ethical confidence and decreased moral distress.
Over the last two decades, the Department of Veterans Affairs has identified the need to improve access to health care as a high priority area. This session will discuss how our organization is utilizing Registered Nurses to the fullest scope of their practice by allowing RNs complete same day mental health appointment. It will discuss the framework for outpatient clinics, throughput and referrals, managing schedule expectations, medication management, and processes to manage patients in crisis.
Across the U.S., health care systems are grappling with severe staffing shortages that have far-reaching implications. Despite efforts to address these ongoing workforce challenges, nursing turnover remains alarmingly high, with many nurses contemplating leaving their positions due to burnout and inadequate staffing. What can nurse leaders do to help their staff thrive while delivering excellent patient care? In today’s podcast, we’ll explore a practical solution that focuses on nurse retention and why this approach is an effective, long-term strategy to manage the impact of staffing shortages. For more information, visit Inovalon.com.
Heart Failure is a complex and costly disease to manage. In an effort to increase patient quality of life while decreasing readmissions and cost of care, our organization hired a dedicated APRN to consult on patients in select Skilled Nursing Facilities and work collaboratively with the staff. The 30-day readmission rates of the SNF patients cared for by the APRN is on average, 12% lower than those not. It is estimated this program prevented an overall cost of care of approximately $657K.
This session shares how one organization’s Rapid Response Team (RRT) transformed from a reactive role in responding to acute situations bringing critical care resources to the bedside outside of the ICU, to a high reliability proactive response focused on improving patient outcomes and reducing safety events throughout the hospital. The use of artificial intelligence technology has also provided the RRT with a predictive model aimed at alerting them of the likelihood of a declining patient.
This session is designed for leaders who may be embarking on new roles and want to increase their enjoyment and effectiveness during their transition. The audience will hear about a peer mentorship model that two new CNOs utilized in their parallel transitions in different organizations. This session will highlight the framework and associated positive outcomes. This will be a hopeful and positive session highlighting the power of partnership.
Learn about how nurse leaders partnered with an interprofessional team of internal experts to reduce assaults on nursing staff through an interprofessional, proactive rounding team. The team comprised of mental health consultants, security and geriatric resource nurses. Nurses and leaders can learn how to leverage internal experts to deploy crucial support to the bedside for nursing in the care of patients with challenging behaviors.
Collaborative partnerships have great potential to create long-lasting influential changes within the global healthcare environment. A U.S. academic-medical partnership established a joint venture with two international healthcare systems to build a culture of clinical inquiry, nurture clinician resiliency and empowerment, and advance nursing leadership. The success of this program supports an approach for developing a culture of EBP that includes key leadership engagement strategies.
The missing link in helping nurses save time, reduce costs, improve patient / provider experience is actually focusing on improving patient education. By keeping pace with technological advancements such as cloud based platforms and availing more modern content rooted in the science of microlearning patients can go much deeper in understanding their condition, preparing for their procedure or visit and discharge, all from their home, before they arrive, leading to enormous time savings and better quality of care. When patients are informed, ahead of care delivery they feel better, they are more engaged, and become a true partner in their care journey. Learn how a consumer-oriented enterprise cloud-based strategy for patient education and engagement, with private content streaming and algorithmic, intelligent engagement, can transform care delivery.
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Nurse leaders are at the frontline of healthcare. Every day, they face the challenges posed by resource constraints, the need to deliver on value-based performance metrics, and difficulties recruiting and retaining nurses. A good onboarding program is key to responding to all those challenges. Tune in to this episode to learn more about how Laerdal Medical is partnering with hospitals and health systems in a data-driven approach to improving patient outcomes and staff satisfaction. This episode is sponsored by Laerdal. For more information visit https://laerdal.com/us/.
This podcast will highlight the importance of measuring the adoption and utilization of point of care medication management technologies and the associated benefits. In practice, various challenges such as staff turnover may contribute to a drop in utilization of the various features and functionality available within technology. This unique relationship between a vendor and a health system highlights the value of an ongoing partnership and data-driven performance optimization. This episode is sponsored by Omnicell. For more information, visit omnicell.com.
Nursing is one of the biggest challenges for organizations. From staffing shortages to burnout, and rising labor costs, we’ll explore how using AI can help organizations solve today’s nursing challenges. This episode is sponsored by Nuance, a Microsoft company. Explore a vision for nursing at nuance.com/nursing.
With the pandemic in the rear-view mirror, hospitals are ramping up growth efforts, adding beds, launching new specialties, and expanding services. However, a persistent challenge remains: securing a sustainable nursing staff amidst a projected shortage of over 600,000 nurses by 2030. This podcast offers guidance for hospitals grappling with nurse staffing issues, including analyzing near- and mid-term needs, considering attrition and retirements, exploring the option of hiring international nurses, and selecting the right partner for successful implementation of such a program. This episode is sponsored by PRS Global.This episode is sponsored by PRS Global.
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In response to COVID, our 12-hospital healthcare system initiated storytelling events for healthcare workers to assist in healing from trauma. These events foster connections through the shared lived experiences of teams and inspire hope for the future. Within a year, our health system organized 6 in-person events, 4 online watch parties, and featured more than 30 healthcare storytellers across Washington state. We then analyzed the transformative power of storytelling in our healthcare teams.
Discover how expert nursing knowledge and academic partnerships fueled by machine learning led to the creation of an advanced workforce management tool used to deploy coveted nursing resources to the right place at the right time leading to increased accuracy in predicting staffing needs up to 21 days in advance across a sixteen-hospital academic health system. This episode is sponsored by Nuance, a Microsoft company. Explore a vision for nursing at nuance.com/nursing.
Common challenges in healthcare today include decreased nurse retention, patient satisfaction, quality of care, system outcomes, and nurse engagement. Learn how executive nurse leaders in a critical access hospital and ambulatory clinics collaborated with clinical nurses to implement a professional governance model that positively influenced key outcomes. The model prioritized nurse autonomy and a just culture that provided a positive practice environment for all team members.
