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Hospitals Introducing Teens To Healthcare Career Opportunities

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Hospitals are hiring or accepting volunteer teens and young adults as a long-term strategy to help combat shortages in the healthcare industry. Research shows, exposure to various healthcare fields is crucial to the development of career interests for adolescents and young adults. There’s a job for you in healthcare.”.

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Healthcare Technology and Nursing: What You Should Know

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Healthcare technologies can make patient care better, easier, and more efficient, especially with a large patient load. Here are some current healthcare technologies you should get to know to help better provide Nursing care to your patients. Telehealth Telehealth has become a buzzworthy topic in the healthcare community.

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Study: Machine Learning Prompts Earlier Advance Care Planning, Reduces High-Cost Care

Hospice News

Case in point, Palm Beach Accountable Care Organization (PBACO) recently told Healthcare Finance that machine learning and predictive analytics contributed to a 29% reduction in hospital lengths of stay among their patients. That’s what gravitated us toward this program,” Klebonis told Healthcare Finance.

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Things You Will Have To Do Every Day as a Nurse

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While it is no secret that every day in the healthcare world will look completely different, there are some consistencies. Check Vital Signs. Nurses should expect to check the vital signs of patients on a consistent basis. As a nurse, your sole responsibility is your patients’ health, safety, and wellness.

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What To Know Before Hiring In-Home Nursing Services

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They may also take vital signs and ensure the patient’s environment is safe and comfortable. Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) LVNs perform more complex tasks than CNAs, including administering medications, monitoring vital signs, and providing wound care under the supervision of registered nurses or physicians.

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Predictive Analytics ‘Gives Hospices a Lens’ into Quality, Compliance

Hospice News

AccentCare utilizes Medalogix’s Muse digital health care platform, which collects data on patient vital signs, pain assessments, medication changes, physician narratives and other staff/bedside notes, among other data.

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Empowering patients and families to escalate worries and concerns. The NHS England pilot project at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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We acknowledge that healthcare is a highly complex process, and healthcare professionals are human and may adopt bias, according to their specialty or expected patient pathway or make errors or omissions in care, in the 24hour business of life. This one year pilot project aims to see patients as equal partners in care 3.

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