Over the past decade, both the number of and need for nurse practitioners have grown. The American Association of Nurse Practitioners' NP Fact Sheet, reports there are more than 248,000 licensed NPs in the United States, and the Health Resources & Services Administration projects the supply...
Once the decision is made to offer APPs the opportunity to train up, the organization is now ready to determine the policy and procedures necessary to accomplish this goal. Policy considerations should include the following:
A purpose statement or objective: The organization must
When exploring the possibility of bringing APPs into your organization, start by taking stock of your current practitioners. Are any APPs already practicing there? If so, what are they doing, and where are they doing it?
"Team leadership is initially about setting goals, constraints and guiding principles to help them through. Then, let them drive the daily operations and make the decisions."
- Jeff Rosenfeld, manager of strategic innovation and project management at Tahoe Forest Hospital District in...
A surgical team in Argentina—comprised of a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, two surgical assistants, and a surgical nurse—has been suspended after taking photos mid-surgery and later posting them online. Photos posted on Lorena Olguin’s social media account show the team posing for pictures in...
Compared to a tertiary hospital, resources can be tight and clinical expertise narrowly concentrated in a scaled-down facility such as a microhospital. “In the acute care setting, in most cases, you presume you’re going to have a full-fledged medical staff and most of the ancillary support...
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"I was surprised that the measure changes were not huge. The measures that have been proposed for removal are not that highly used—we were expecting some of them to go away."
- Ida Mantashi, chair of the Electronic Health Record Association's Quality Measurement Workgroup, discusses CMS' ...
The third largest health system in the United States, Providence St. Joseph Health System struggled with an issue common among health systems: how to bring together disparate data and develop one source of truth for provider data.
“The two big issues relevant to providers were how do we...
