Featured Story | | Mass General Brigham Issues Patient Code of Conduct | | Under a newly imposed Patient Code of Conduct, patients and visitors who disrupt care, make verbal or physical threats -- including racist, sexist, discriminatory or disrespectful comments about clinicians, other hospital staff, other patients and visitors -- could face a verbal reprimand, and even expulsion from the Boston hospital and possible suspension of future care access. |
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News & Analysis | | It’s Official: CMS Creates New Rural Emergency Hospital Provider Type | | In its annual final rule on hospital outpatient prospective payment and ambulatory surgical center payment systems, scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on November 23, CMS also finalized a set of REH Conditions of Participation (CoP), which it says track closely with CoPs for critical access hospitals. |
| Monitoring TAVR Patients for Improved Outcomes | | For patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure is often performed as a minimally invasive alternative to open-heart surgery. This helps shorten a patient’s hospital stay and increases their chances of being discharged home. As TAVR procedures become more common, hospitals are now leveraging cardiac monitoring devices to monitor for significant arrhythmias post-discharge. |
| To Reduce Risk in Value-Based Care, Focus on Care Quality | | The key tenet of value-based care is that provider reimbursement is directly connected to care quality. Value-based arrangements stand in sharp contrast to how providers are compensated under fee-for-service models, which reward more revenues for more tests and procedures. |
| Results are in: First-ever survey of nurse communication using NASA TLX | | We asked more than 500 nurses globally to describe a recent communication experience and rate it according to the NASA Task Load Index, a survey tool that measures workers’ task load in high-intensity jobs. On Nov. 17, Lauren Bellon, RN, BSN, Senior Clinical Executive and Liz Boehm, Executive Strategist, will provide an overview of the survey results and present strategies nurse leaders can use to improve nurse communication and create a better working environment. |
| How Nurse Leaders Can Advance Excellence in Quality Improvement, High Reliability & Patient Safety | | A theme within the literature on safety and nursing strongly suggests nurses are key to EVERY quality and safety initiative and EVERY aspect of the quality and safety movements in highly reliable organizations. On this Nov. 29 webinar, Dr. Diana Swihart will describe the integration of the elements of nursing leadership, quality, patient safety, and high reliability in healthcare organizations, and much more. |
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