Over the last year, clinical communication and collaboration solutions have garnered significant attention from healthcare organizations to streamline care coordination. As a result, our posts about clinical collaboration were among the most popular blog posts we published in 2021. As we get ready for the new challenges that healthcare organizations are likely to face in 2022, taking a look back is a great way to recognize where we’re headed.
In this post, you’ll learn how effective communication in nursing can help facilitate better healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
Today’s healthcare systems recognize that curbing burnout is essential to retain nursing team members, manage costs, and achieve quality patient outcomes. Understanding the problems burnout causes, along with strategies and technologies to remedy nurse burnout, is essential.
Although hospitals are embracing digital transformation of their clinical ecosystems, nurse call systems are hindered due to their heavy reliance on hardware. A new breed of software-first nurse call solutions seeks to innovate their offerings with flexible Clinical workflow, easy staff assignments, real-time analytics, and variable deployment strategies. This not only eases administration and serviceability but saves time, money and frustration.
Clinical interruptions, incessant unfiltered patient alarms and alerts, and extensive documentation inhibit nurses from providing the best patient care and can cause burnout. Unfortunately, these issues are the norm at most hospitals and healthcare systems. Decatur Morgan was no different, but they decided to do something about it.
Today’s acute care nurses are carrying a heavy burden, punctuated by an ever-increasing workload, high patient-to-staff ratios, not to mention the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This burden is compounded by longstanding challenges associated with distractions, stressful shifts, workplace hazards, and the physical demands of the job. It is easy to conclude that nurses need help!
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Teamwork is an essential part of the nursing profession and is vital to effective patient care. Nurses must establish a connection with not only their fellow nurses, but also other members of the care team, such as physicians, physical therapists, or social workers.
With nurses at the forefront of healthcare, it’s critical to keep their needs, skills, and expertise in mind when building out your care delivery strategy.
Let’s look at seven benefits of nursing informatics and what a healthcare system would be like without nursing informatics. We’d manage, surely. But our healthcare system is much better off with nurse informaticists doing their thing, being a remarkable gift to society.
Nursing autonomy is characterized by nurses thinking and acting by themselves without seeking approval. A broader description comes from the American Nurses Association’s Magnet Recognition Program. This program identifies 14 Forces of Magnetism, and the ninth Force is nursing autonomy. Read more.
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