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This minor illness course aims to develop the skills of experienced nurse practitioners, pharmacists, advanced paramedics, and allied healthcare professionals in clinical decision-making, identifying red flags, and managing minor illness presentations. https://buff.ly/3VMGUk5

Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, medical doctors, and DOs should consider taking an advanced or a continuing injection training course. 💉 WHY? 🤔 Because of that scope of practice, we are utilizing assessment, diagnostic, hands on training. The things that actually produce OUTCOMES 🏆. Everybody (in the course) has to GIVE the injections and I highly recommend they also RECEIVE the injections so they know what it feels like! Visit the M.I.T. website for our next training dates: myinjectiontraining.com #MyInjectionTraining #NursePractitioner #InjectionTechniques #MedicalAesthetics #IntegrativeMedicine

Preventing patient falls requires a multifaceted approach that includes innovative tools, thorough clinical assessments, and active patient involvement. Products like the Beata Clasp Medical Line Organizer, developed by nurses, exemplify how practical solutions can enhance patient safety. By focusing on individual risk factors and fostering a supportive culture, nurses can significantly reduce the incidence of falls and improve patient outcomes. Full article here: https://lnkd.in/g9Fdu_J5

Language matters. For so, so many things, but today, two healthcare pet peeves. 1. Doctor does not = physician. There are doctors of nurse practitioners, doctors of philosophy, doctors of physical therapy, and doctors of pharmacy. If you mean physician, please say physician! This also applies to subbing doctor for provider - APRNs and PAs play such important roles in primary and hospital care, especially in rural areas! 2. This one is getting rarer, but I heard it again today - the use of customer instead of patient for someone using a pharmacy. If physicians have patients and pharmacists have customers, you are diminishing the critical clinical role that pharmacists in all settings play in healthcare. Go forth and be precise!

Did You Know: 81% of Americans say they trust a pharmacist, nurse, or nurse practitioner to diagnose minor illnesses and prescribe medications to treat them. Interested in elevating your clinical offering, better serving your community, and growing your revenue? Check out our Playbook for Test and Treat, a step-by-step guide that covers everything from contracting and scheduling to clinical documentation and billing. Download now: https://hubs.li/Q027Sr8m0 #ForPharmacy #AreYouReady #clinicalservices #pharmacy #technology

Your AUDIT TRAIL tip of the day... 👇 When requesting an audit trail production, please specify that you would like the audit trail produced in the SAME TIMEZONE that the medical records were produced in. This will help avoid confusion when the Audit Trail Nurses are reviewing and authenticating the medical record along side the audit trail. What does this mean??? For instance, if the medical records are from a facility located in California, they would be created in PST. The EHR parent facility where the audit trail will be produced may be located in the midwest (CST). So the person pulling data who is in CST will need to adjust the timezone to PST prior to gathering the data and putting it into an audit trail format. Occasionally if this is not specified, an audit trail can be received that may be hours off of the original medical record timestamps making it incredibly confusing and sometimes impossible to authenticate medical records. Any questions? #audittrail #audittrailnurses #tips __________________________________________________________________ The Audit Trail Nurses are three nurses with various healthcare backgrounds who are on a mission to spread awareness and education about audit trails. The more we learn, the more we share. The more audit trails we analyze, the more cases you can dominate. Contact us at info@audittrailnurses.com

Intense. Clinically focused. Rigorously informative! Broussard Healthcare Consulting’s DON Bootcamp will provide Directors of Nursing and nurse managers in the post-acute care environment with education on how to prioritize, delegate, and promote critical thinking and effective decision making.   HOT TOPIC: Wounds Wounds are the second most litigated issue in the skilled nursing facility.  Poor documentation negatively impacts your quality measures, your star rating, and increases your exposure to lawsuits. Henry Okonkwo, Chief Medical Officer, will identify the most common legal pitfalls in wound care related documentation and explain how to employ best practice recommendations.

As we reflect on 2023 and look towards 2024, what are your goals for the New Year? What have you done in the past to be consistent and successful in keeping these goals?

Well this is refreshing to read as I sit here working on an editorial about how we need better systems to support nurses. I am mystified by the hypocrisy of nurses and other front line staff involved in deadly human error being criminally prosecuted yet administrators (who control resources) are not held criminally liable. To be clear, not suggesting they go to jail either just pointing out hypocrisy … and this is a soapbox I’ve been on since I heard about the Eric Cropp case in 2007. There must be a focus on building systems that support safe medication administration rather than simply expecting perfection from people working in complex, adaptive systems. Health care workers must demand this and be part of making it happen. We are not ultimately helping patients by perpetuating the “perfection myth” or judging each other when a colleague is unfortunately involved in a deadly error. We can send humans into space but can’t figure out how to ensure that a paralytic is ONLY dispensed from an ADC to an appropriate patient without relying on the nurse to “really read the label." Enough already, let’s change the system we work in! https://lnkd.in/ebF3jZYH

[pdf] IMPLEMENTING CLINICAL GUIDELINES: a practical guide Debra Humphris, Professor Peter Littlejohns digsell https://lnkd.in/e-YNYE6K This manual is for busy clinicians and managers. It can help to improve the quality of care by explaining how to apply guidelines in a wide variety of clinical settings. Case studies written by the protagonists themselves describe the experiences of using guidelines in treating a wide range of conditions in primary and secondary care. The final sections collate the lessons learnt from these examples, and propose practical solutions that can be applied in everyday clinical care by doctors, nurses, professionals allied to medicine, and healthcare managers. https://lnkd.in/efp6nK99