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Enhancing Patient Safety in Nursing: Strategies and Practices

Relias

Medical errors are a healthcare professional’s worst nightmare. If designed and deployed effectively, safety protocols empower healthcare administrators to learn from past mistakes, minimize errors, improve the reliability of their medical staff — and most importantly — reduce patient mortality rates. What is patient safety in nursing?

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Nurse Depression and Anxiety: Stopping the Mental Health Crisis

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Nurses are the backbone of the healthcare system, providing essential care and support to patients and their families. In this article, we’ll look at what causes elevated levels of nurse depression and anxiety, how nurses can help themselves and each other, and how healthcare leaders can support their nurses’ mental health.

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Building Organizational Resilience for Behavioral Health Providers

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Though the COVID-19 pandemic is waning, the changes it brought to healthcare persist. Just as individual practices like self-care can ground you through hardship, building organizational resilience can help your clinicians and staff weather hard times. After all, the ability to bounce back can sometimes be fostered best in a community.

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The Six Domains of Health Care Quality — New Considerations

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Healthcare organizations have been using a quality improvement framework consisting of six attributes — safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable — for decades. But new research has expanded the framework to include elements that address more recent challenges in healthcare and in society.

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7 Nurse Recruitment and Retention Strategies

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Nurses have one of the most in-demand roles in healthcare, and with a 6% projected job growth rate through 2031, the demand for nurses to fill both vacancies and new roles is only increasing. Maximizing nurse recruitment and retention is a challenge nearly every healthcare organization across the country is facing.

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Understanding Work Stress Leave in Australia

Psychological Health Care

Add in widespread use of digital communication technologies reducing your ability to disconnect from work, and your work stress begins to seep into your personal life as well. In Australia, workplaces are required to manage factors that can harm mental health.

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Patient Experience in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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As the COVID-19 pandemic takes new twists and turns, healthcare providers trying to optimize the patient experience continue to face many challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous stress on healthcare workers, as they are called upon to make difficult care decisions and to work under the constraints of limited resources.