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Exploring Leadership Styles in Nursing: Strengths, Challenges, and Best Practices
Discover the most common leadership styles in nursing and their impact on patient care, team dynamics, and professional growth in healthcare settings.
Discover the most common leadership styles in nursing and their impact on patient care, team dynamics, and professional growth in healthcare settings.
HealthStream® is excited to announce a new partnership with Axuall that will provide clinicians and medical staff personnel with an integrated solution that makes the credentialing process more efficient and accurate.
Navigating the landscape of healthcare reimbursements can feel daunting to many professionals in the field. However, as we look toward 2025, several key trends promise to influence how reimbursements are approached, managed, and optimized. Understanding these shifts is crucial for healthcare organizations who want to thrive in a rapidly evolving environment.
Learn what a skills ontology framework is, why it matters to your healthcare organization, and how you can get started with your own.
By prioritizing improvements in patient access, healthcare organizations can have a more efficient and financially stable practice.
“Feedback” doesn’t work. What your healthcare organization needs is “feedforward.” Learn how to move beyond feedback with HealthStream.
Ready to take your nursing career to the next level or support the nurses on your team? Learn more about nursing certifications and how HealthStream can help.
Wondering if your hospital needs a nurse residency program? Find out why NRPs are so valuable and how you can start your own.
Maternal mortality rates in the United States are the worst among developed countries and reports show that the rates have been rising over the past several years and continue to climb.
HealthStream® received a patent for its innovative solution for healthcare provider privileging. We consider this patent award a milestone, as it is one of the industry’s first patented privileging process. Our industry-leading credentialing solution, CredentialStream®, earned the patent in August for its Privilege technology, which contains a curated privileging library; smart logic that automates the evaluation of qualifications, credentials, and competencies; online reviewers’ functionality to analyze, discuss, and grant privileges; and national, proprietary benchmarks among other features.
Traditional training methods to ensure quality and patient safety during surgeries and perioperative processes may not be the most effective way to train your surgical team, panelists said in a recent webinar we hosted.
CredentialStream® by HealthStream® was awarded G2’s Fall Leader 2024 badge in the healthcare credentialing software category.
Creating a culture of compliance has significant benefits for healthcare organizations. Meeting regulation requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is key.
Network by HealthStream® supports adherence to laws and standards, thereby contributing to a reliable and transparent healthcare system.
ED nurse onboarding is as essential for key measures such as job satisfaction, retention, and employee engagement as it is for clinical development. HealthStream has solutions to help provide your new ED nurses with the latest, most engaging education and can provide them with an optimal onboarding experience. Reach out to HealthStream today to learn more.
Excellent clinical judgment is essential when caring for patients, especially cardiac patients, who require healthcare professionals to make life-and-death decisions in split seconds. ART, an advanced resuscitation training program, aims to use technology to improve clinical judgment models and prevent patients from going into cardiac arrest. Using the ART Program, available exclusively through, proactive hospitals can improve competence, clinical judgment, patient safety, and clinical outcomes.
Healthcare leaders struggle to develop ways to lessen nurse burnout. Effective leadership strategies, such as staff training, well-being programs, and building resiliency, help mitigate work-related physical and emotional exhaustion. This mindset is essential for robust nurse retention.
Ineffective surgical training increases the clinical and operational risks of healthcare organizations. Clinical risks include increased patient errors, inconsistent surgical quality, poor patient outcomes, and increased surgical infection rates. Operational risks include increased cost, flow inefficiencies, high staff turnover, and negative team dynamics.
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy occur in 8-10% of pregnancies in the United States. Patients with hypertension during pregnancy have increased morbidity and mortality due to subsequent cardiovascular disease, cardiomyopathy, and pulmonary hypertension. Furthermore, these conditions are leading contributors to premature birth, leading to increased morbidity and mortality within the neonatal population.
HealthStream and ShiftWizard can help your organization by providing effective scheduling, as well as credentialing, learning, and clinical development. To learn more about how to implement this solution in your organization, reach out to HealthStream today.