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ACO’s Comprehensive Patient Navigation Can Reduce Costs, Increase Satisfaction
Surprisingly, accountable care organization enrollees who are given fewer choices but better navigation assistance in making decisions are happier with their healthcare access, researchers found.
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Intensive Care Management Works with Complex Medicaid Population
One way to reduce costs among a population of high-cost, high-utilization Medicaid patients is to use intensive care management. In a study of an intervention involving a nonprofit organization that provides integrated care to complex patients, investigators found a reduction of more than $1,900 in total medical expense per member per month.
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Possible Solutions to Poor Interhospital Transfers
Interhospital transfers can be frustrating to nurses and lead to worse outcomes for patients, research shows. But hospitals can take steps to improve the process and reduce risks for patients. The first step is to eliminate unnecessary transfers.
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Better Care Coordination Needed for Interhospital Transfers
Interhospital transfers can be challenging and frustrating for nursing staff — and sometimes dangerous and tragic for patients and their families. Health systems should pay more attention to how these transfers are handled and work to improve communication between sending and receiving hospitals.
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Primary Care Is on Life Support, But Case Management Could Be Antidote
Primary care is facing decline due to financial factors and clinician burnout. One solution is to assign case managers or care coordinators to primary care offices to improve communication between primary care providers, hospitals, and other healthcare entities.
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Emergency Nurses Overdosing on Rush of Opioid Patients
Emergency nurses who participated in a study in Philadelphia expressed frustration and other negative emotions about caring for patients addicted to opioids and other drugs.
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Staffing Shortages Create Moral Dilemmas, Injuries
As part of the research for her dissertation, Denise Waterfield, PhD, APRN-NP, CCRN, AGACNP-BC, interviewed and observed 25 critical care nurses. Many seemed upset and frustrated during their shifts due to an overwhelming workload, and there was not much in the way of resources to provide relief.
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A Sharp Learning Curve: New Nurses and Needlesticks
There is some concern incoming nurse graduates whose training was compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic may be vulnerable to needlesticks in clinical settings.
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Two Strikes? A Black Woman’s Experience Working in Healthcare
In the wake of the disparities in patient care exposed by the pandemic, healthcare continues a racial reckoning that now includes clinicians and employees. Black women in healthcare face entrenched racism daily, from the death by a thousand cuts of microaggressions to the longstanding barriers to leadership positions.
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States: End HCW COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
Twenty-two states have joined to petition CMS to stop mandating COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare workers. In a Nov. 18, 2022, letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey called for the vaccination requirement to be withdrawn.