Articles Tagged With: Education
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Tips for Integrating Medication into Clinical Decision Support
An expert explains how hospitals can use clinical decision support to improve care while alleviating clinician frustration.
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Hospital’s Transitional Care Programs Help Heart Failure Patients Stay Healthier
Hospitals that focus on collaboration between case management and transitional care clinics for people with congestive heart failure are finding positive outcomes in their patients’ health and 30-day readmissions.
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Congress Considers Legislation Addressing Healthcare Provider Mental Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed historic burdens on already-taxed frontline clinicians.
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Hospitals Innovate to Meet Surging Demand for Palliative Care Services
Faced with more demand for palliative care services, some hospitals have devised new solutions for accelerating this kind of expertise to providers, many of whom are overwhelmed with providing care to critically ill patients with complex needs.
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Learn How to Don and Doff PPE Correctly
Teaching providers how to put on and remove personal protective equipment may be one of the most important things any healthcare organization can focus on. When this process is not performed correctly, a worker can become exposed and potentially infected.
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Analysis: Myocardial Infarction Most Commonly Missed Diagnosis
Researchers recommended additional training in reading ECGs and recognizing atypical presentations of myocardial infarction to reduce missed diagnoses.
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(Mal)Nutrition in Medical Education
In a systemic review of recent publications, investigators found that medical students and recent graduates worldwide are ill-prepared to counsel patients on nutritional guidelines and have deficits in both knowledge and confidence about the topic. The researchers found a perceived lack of training, but found that interventions undertaken to improve curriculum showed positive effects on nutrition competencies. -
Ethics Education in High Demand for Palliative Care Clinicians
Ethics consultants and palliative care clinicians are obvious partners in the task of caring for patients in pain. The skills of each group, when combined, are of great potential benefit to patients and their families.
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Online, Classroom, Team Huddles: For Training, All That (and More) Is Needed
The amount of needed education for patient access is only increasing. How can leaders help staff keep up?
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Meet Unique Challenges of Pediatric Ethics Consults
Researchers find a need for standardization in both education and training for pediatric ethics consultants.