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Long-time columnist bids farewell, offers final thoughts.
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Performance psychologists have developed education featuring cognitive visual modules and guided reflection to help on this issue.
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Identify stressors early and create a healthy work environment.
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A new stress intervention program aims to help surgeons reduce stress and burnout, which, left unchecked, can affect quality of care and professional lives. Coping techniques are especially useful in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Old habits are hard to break.
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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.
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Replacing perioperative nurses is especially challenging because few nursing programs offer designated curricula on this area.
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Staff at a California hospital found rapid mortality reviews conducted soon after a patient death resulted in the treatment team identifying opportunities to improve the patient’s care in more than 40% of the cases. The team conducting the rapid mortality reviews concluded this technique can offer advantages over the standard retrospective case reviews, provider surveys, and structured morbidity and mortality conferences.
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No knew the world would be in the grips of COVID-19 in 2016. That is when Johns Hopkins Hospital unveiled a first-of-its-kind Capacity Command Center (CCC), a high-tech control room designed to apply all the latest analytical tools to bed management, patient transfers, and surge planning. CCC leaders have spent the last five years working around the clock to optimize patient flow and anticipate any potential bottlenecks. But there is no question the concept has been put to the test by pandemic conditions. How did it fare?
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In the pandemic and post-pandemic times, case management leaders can take many steps to help their staff prevent mental health issues, like trauma, stress, burnout, post-traumatic stress disorder, and others.