Cheryl McKay, PhD, RN, Nurse Executive Accountable Care

Founded more than a century ago, Geisinger is a regional health system that includes primary care and specialist practices, trauma centers, and hospitals. Because of the complex, distributed nature of Geisinger's clinical operations, effective communication is vital. Working with TigerConnect...

Care plans are part of the core curriculum in most nursing schools. Yet, new hospital nurses often complain that despite all the hype and time spent learning how to make a nursing care plan, they never do it again after...

Happy National Nurses Week! May 6th marks the beginning of National Nurses Week, the annual observance that recognizes the countless contributions nurses make to the healthcare community. This year’s theme is “4 million reasons to celebrate” in honor of the...

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are central to putting the patient first. A good EHR system gives physicians, and nurses access to the accurate, up-to-date, and complete information they need to provide expert healthcare. One issue with using EHRs is integrating...

In the fast-paced environment of modern healthcare, good hospital communication is critical to patient outcomes and quality of care. Nowhere is this more evident than when handing over a case to another shift, team, or organization. An effective patient handoff...

We all know that effective clinical communication is central to delivering good healthcare outcomes. Get your workplace communications right and you enhance patient treatment, build strong teams, and reduce inefficiencies. Get healthcare communications wrong and you risk harming patients, damaging...

They say it takes a village to raise a child; the same can be said when caring for a patient. The bedside nurse and the physician may be the primary caregivers in charge of the patient. However, it truly takes...