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Executive Moves at UnitedHealth Group, Treasure Coast Hospice

Hospice News

McMahon ascended to the role in 2021, serving in various other positions at UnitedHealth Group since 2003, including executive vice president of enterprise operations and CEO of Optum Rx, among other management positions in finance, information technology and operations.

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The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps

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The Importance of Prognostic Conversations In response to research revealing the importance of prognostic conversations and low patient recall of prognostic conversations, Margaret Isaac, MD and Randall Curtis, MD outlined a systematic approach for this patient communication. 2 Patient recall of prognostic conversations can be poor.

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Top 5 Magnet Hospitals You’d Be Lucky to Work For

Minority Nurse

Working for a preeminent Magnet hospital focused on benchmarks for their patients and staff, superior nursing, ongoing innovation, and leadership excellence should be at the top of any nurse’s wish list. The Baylor Scoot & White Medical Center – Temple for Trauma Care. Cleveland Clinic for Cardiac Care.

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Behind the Screen But Not Behind the Scenes: Virtual Nurses Provide Clinical Support, Additional Expertise

Minority Nurse

Virtual nurses may work from behind computer screens, but their impact is felt throughout healthcare as their expertise is increasingly integrated into patient care and nursing workflows. They now support clinical teams throughout the patient care continuum to help ease the overwhelming demands and address serious healthcare issues.

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Clinical Education – but I don’t have time…

The Nurse Break

Literature supports that barriers to clinical education result from time pressures, competing work demands, the unpredictable nature of the clinical environment and under-resourcing (Spencer, 2003; Ramani & Leinster, 2008). In the current climate, with severe staffing shortages, those difficulties are only increasing. AMEE guide no.34:

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These Nursing Associations Connect You to Fellow Pros and Valuable Resources

Nurse.com

Created in 2003, NAANA serves as a voice, network and resource for Arab American men and women in their pursuit of employment and advancement within the nursing profession. With 12,000 members, the AMSN encourages med/surg nurses to use their powerful voices and focused action to improve patient care. n-aana.org. Nephrology.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

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Their reporting prompted the state of Washington to “issue a public health advisory that singles out the unique risks of methadone” as contributing to the deaths of at least 2,173 people between 2003 and late 2011 (14).

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