Articles Tagged With: career
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Necessity and Reinvention: APIC Tries to Hire, Retain IPs
As a generation of infection preventionists (IPs) near career end, it is well to remember that many of them tell a similar story of how they got into the profession. Often, they were working some other clinical job and an opening or temporary need came up in the infection control department. To paraphrase what Hospital Infection Control & Prevention has reported time and again from new IPs to long-established leaders in the field, “I just fell into it and I loved it. I found it fascinating.”
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Not All Revenue Cycle Employees Want a Job That Is Patient-Facing
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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: An Academic Path for Infection Preventionist Education
With shifting demographics and aging expertise, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is creating infection preventionist curriculum for colleges and universities.
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Career ladder requires these patient access skill sets
Here are the skill sets required for each level of the career ladder at Navicent Health, based in Macon, GA:
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Career ladder convinced 35 employees to stay in patient access roles
Emergency department registrars were given new positions handling medical necessity appeals and insurance verification. A surgery center registrar is now an insurance specialist. An ambulatory surgery registrar is now a financial counselor.
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Career ladder convinced 35 employees to stay in patient access roles
Emergency department registrars were given new positions handling medical necessity appeals and insurance verification. A surgery center registrar is now an insurance specialist. An ambulatory surgery registrar is now a financial counselor.