Embracing technology, engaging patients
The Bipartisan Policy Center has issued a Health Information Technology Initiative with recommendations to help hasten the adoption of electronic tools, increase patient engagement, and improve healthcare.
Nurses are number one!
For 13 out of 14 years nurses have ranked number one in the annual Gallup poll, which rates professionals based on honesty and ethical standards. This year, nurses received their highest ranking yet: 85% of survey respondents ranked nurses’ ethical standards and honesty as “high” or “very high.”
Managers can reduce readmissions
A program, and subsequent study, was created to help reduce hospital readmissions through improved care coordination among veterans with high-risk conditions who were discharged into community settings. The Coordinated Transitional Care program allowed patients to collaborate over the phone with nurse case managers about all aspects of their care; patients who followed this protocol experienced one-third fewer readmissions as compared with patients not in the program.
Hospitals helping their communities
The American Hospital Association’s Community Connections initiative recently launched a new website, designed to help make patients and communities healthier through tools, resources, and case studies that hospitals can use to help expand patient care to the community and beyond the hospital walls.
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Nursing Management and taking the test.
What do you do? Perceptions of nurse manager responsibilities
Susan Baker, MSN, RN, NEA-BC; Dianne M. Marshburn, PhD, RN, NE-BC; Kim D. Crickmore, PhD, RN, FABC; Silvia B. Rose, MSN, RN, NE-BC; Kathy Dutton, MSN, RN; and Patti Carr Hudson, MSN, RN-BC