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The Nursing Shortage and Patient Safety

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Because of these ongoing trends, healthcare organizations and the nursing community must work collaboratively to find ways to examine the link between the nursing shortage and patient safety. Patient safety is a fundamental goal of all health care. But recruiting is not the only way to help mitigate staffing shortfalls.

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How Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Can Influence Healthcare

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Healthcare organizations have a growing responsibility to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts not only for their employees, but also to better serve patients and their families. Also, hiring and retaining a workforce that is representative of the patient population served. Bring everyone in.

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The importance of speaking up in the workplace

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We want to make sure we are protecting our patients' safety and improving the lives of all our colleagues. Colleagues who choose to take it on are passionate about supportive workplace cultures and patient safety. This creates a diverse network, where we can all learn from each other. ".there

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Managing Generational Differences in the Workplace

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Respect can look different to everyone though, which makes this approach to increasing employee engagement seem like a gargantuan undertaking for any organization with a generationally diverse staff. It can also help to retain a generationally diverse workforce.

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IHS Health IT Modernization Program: The Case for a Better Learning Management Platform

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These components will enable IHS and its partner organizations to streamline their clinical and administrative workflows, enhance their data collection and analysis, improve their coordination and collaboration with other healthcare providers, and provide patients better access to their health information.

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Memorial Hermann Health System’s Innovative Approach To Reimagining a Culture of Excellence

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Taking a disciplined approach to incorporate interventions aligned to support patient safety as a core value is imperative, especially during a pandemic. Expanding efforts to care for staff as people, including growing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Adapting communications to meet urgent needs.

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The Six Domains of Health Care Quality — New Considerations

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These proposed changes acknowledged that challenges such as climate change, the internet and digital media, COVID-19, the increasing complexity, diversity, and inequities within health care, and other developments have altered how we view and measure quality. Defining the Six Domains of Health Care Quality.