Articles Tagged With: Education
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Many Charge Nurses Receive Little, if Any, Training
Charge nurses are responsible for patient flow, moving them from the waiting room to appropriate disposition. To be effective, these nurses must understand the clinical conditions of the patients in the waiting room. This informs good decision-making on which patients to bring in, in collaboration with the triage nurse, and which nurses to assign those patients.
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Young People Show Support for Social Determinants of Health Screening
Members of Generation Z appear willing to engage with clinicians about food security, housing, education, and more.
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Survey Shows How Leaders Can Improve Obstetric Emergency Training, Education
Opportunities exist to enhance knowledge on health conditions that affect pregnant and postpartum patients.
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Many Nurses Hesitate to Ask for Ethics Consult
Some nurses mistakenly believe only the attending physician can request ethics consults. Others do not even know their institution offers an active ethics consultation service. Still others worry about retaliation.
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Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support Delivered Through Digital Health
The digital world offers a wide array of health tools to improve the participation of patients with diabetes in diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES). DSMES provides knowledge, proficiency, and resources to assist people with diabetes in integrating newfound skills and understanding toward effective management of this complex condition psychologically, biologically, and physically. -
Ethical Challenges of AI Coming Soon
Numerous real-life examples of artificial intelligence in healthcare already pose difficult ethical questions: Informed consent, patient privacy, transparency, allocation, and safety are a few. The authors of a recent paper argued artificial intelligence-related ethics training should begin in medical school. -
TJC Updates Workplace Violence Prevention Standards
As of Jan. 1, 2022, accredited facilities must educate, train, monitor, and assess more often. -
Chaplains Report Receiving No Ethics Education
Chaplains often serve on ethics committees, as ethics consultants, and as institutional review board members. Yet there are no standardized ethics curricula in Clinical Pastoral Education programs. -
Updated Guidance on Health Equity Movement
Three recent reports explain how the healthcare industry can improve diversity and inclusion. -
Researchers, Leaders Offer Ideas on Improving Perioperative Nursing Pipeline
There are several ways to improve the education-to-workforce nursing pipeline, including creating perioperative electives and perioperative preceptorships. These efforts might prevent anticipated shortages caused by an aging workforce on the brink of retirement.