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Racism and Nursing: ‘We Need to Examine Our Hearts and Motives’
A researcher recently wrote an introduction and overview for a nursing journal’s special issue on racism and nursing. She recalled an incident about a decade ago when a peer reviewer objected to an article she authored because it used the word “racism.” She discusses this and more in a Q&A. -
Violence Against HCWs Increased During Pandemic
In one of the few studies of its kind, researchers at the Mayo Clinic reported violent incidents against healthcare workers have more than doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
It Is Not the Canary — It Is the Coal Mine
Too often, healthcare workers facing a panoply of mental maladies — burnout, trauma, moral injury — are expected to muster up resilience enough to overcome what is essentially a systems problem. The answer is to fix the coal mine, not build stronger canaries, an expert says. -
Recommendations Target Making Improvements in U.S. Organ Transplant System
The authors aimed for equity, transparency, and efficiency.
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Physician Turnover Costs Millions in Excess Healthcare Spending
Each time a physician leaves his or her practice, that can lead to more than $86,000 in extra costs during the following year.
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Treatment Indication for Diabetes Drug Expanded to Include Heart Failure
FDA approves empagliflozin to help lower risk of hospitalization, death among heart failure patients.
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Post-COVID-19 Behavioral Health for Patients and Providers
Questions about mental and behavioral health have been at the forefront of many minds, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Of course, the problem did not start with COVID-19. -
Best Practices in Utilization Management
Ideally, the case manager’s utilization management role integrates discharge planning, care coordination, and resource management. It takes place on the unit where the case manager can interact directly with the care delivery team. It also is important for departments and hospitals to develop policies for utilization management procedures at the outset. -
Dementia Model Can Help Patients with Alzheimer’s
Patients with dementia face barriers to care, particularly for underserved communities. One possible solution is a community-based partnership approach and expansion of existing institutional and local resources. -
How a Transitional Care Leader’s Organization Survived the Pandemic Chaos
In this Q&A, Hospital Case Management asked Vera Usinowicz, APN-C, supervisor of The Center for Comprehensive Heart Failure Care at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, to discuss how her transitional care unit kept heart failure patients out of the emergency department and hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.