Thursday, January 9, 2025
Emergency operations plans are an important part of being prepared to respond effectively to a crisis. Without an emergency operations plan, organizations run the risk of responding to emergencies in a disorganized, chaotic, and inefficient manner. As such, these plans can be of vital importance in times of crisis — such as during an earthquake
[ Read More ]Ida Cannon said in 1930, “The medical social movement service recognizes that there should be someone within the hospital. Someone definitely assigned to represent the patient’s point of view and to work out with the physician an adaptation of the medical treatment in the light of the patient’s social condition.†Ida was one of the
[ Read More ]As the world works to right itself and reaches at least some sense of normalcy after the pandemic’s reign over the past two years, it faces significant challenges. Both individual and collective wellbeing has been significantly depleted across our entire worldwide population to an unprecedented level. At not only the individual level but from community-wide,
[ Read More ]Discrimination occurs in nearly every setting, including healthcare. While it’s important to understand this, that doesn’t mean it’s okay to just let things go. Everyone deserves the right to quality healthcare services, delivered with dignity, compassion, and respect. To reduce discrimination in healthcare, it’s very important for professionals at every level to keep their eyes
[ Read More ]When many people think of healthcare, hospitals and nurses and doctors’ visits might be the only things that come to mind. However, healthcare is a vast field that includes many, many branches of study, influence, and practice. Public health and health policy are areas that are concerned with the broad family of healthcare entities, how
[ Read More ]Even without Covid-19, the healthcare industry has been on track for significant changes for years now. Phrases like “data-implementation†had little meaning several decades ago. Now they are integral in providing the highest possible level of patient care. Modern healthcare leadership is expected to provide patients with a secure, tech-driven experience that is user-friendly and
[ Read More ]If you are a nurse or medical professional interested in the area of disease management, there are a few important premises you need to understand about how disease management works that will help you transition well into this type of role. Disease management is a specialized area of healthcare where medicinal practice meets policy, prevention,
[ Read More ]In an ideal world, every patient would receive excellent care when they come through the doors of the hospital. They would trust their doctors and nurses, have all their practical needs met, and feel like people cared about them in addition to caring for them. While this doesn’t happen often enough, it happens more often
[ Read More ]It’s no secret that nursing is a difficult profession. Long hours, difficult work. Tedium some of the time, intense urgency other times. When tensions are high and there is a lot of important work that needs to be done it can be difficult for even a trained professional to know what to do. When the
[ Read More ]Today’s healthcare landscape is experiencing significant shifts and upheaval in some respects. Workforce depletion, the strain caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, increased needs, a changing (and aging) patient population, the increase in telehealth and technological advances, and more are creating huge demands for care that can’t always be met by Medical Doctors (MD’s) or physicians.
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