From the people who brought you The New York Times bestseller, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, the American Nurses Association (ANA) presents another exciting webinar from Vital Smarts on Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, Thursday, September 15, 1-2:15pm ET, 10:00 – 11:00a.m. PDT.
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The National Quality Forum board has announced that it has approved for endorsement a list of 29 serious reportable events in healthcare. The list includes four new events, along with 25 updated events from an earlier endorsement in 2006.
The four new serious reportable events are:
• Radiologic events that cause the death or serious injury of a [...]
Wash Your HandsingTon – where everyone washes their hands, covers their cough, and gets a flu vaccine! Wash Your HandsingTon is a flu education campaign by the Washington State Department of Health that started the first week of December. This campaign includes radio ads, a YouTube video, online banner ads, bus cards, billboards, and print [...]
With more than 3 million members, the nursing profession is the largest segment of the nation’s health care workforce. Working on the front lines of patient care, nurses can play a vital role in helping realize the objectives set forth in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, legislation that represents the broadest health care overhaul since [...]
Five core competencies that all clinicians should possess, regardless of their discipline, to meet the needs of the 21 st – century health system:
Provide patient-centered care
Identify, respect, and care about patients’ differences, values, preferences, and expressed needs; listen to, clearly inform, communicate with, and educate patients; share decision making and management; and continuously advocate disease [...]
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