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Let's have a discussion if #bedsideSTATtesting can help you retain higher acuity patients and provide better care! #patientsareourpurpose

Do you know the HIDDEN COSTS of Vascular Access Solutions? Service delays create significant, additional hidden costs that are fractured across your organization and may be hard to quantify. For example, even a 1-day delay in treatment creates unneeded expenses: 👉 Additional internal medical care while waiting for vascular access 👉 Avoidable complications & costs due to treatment Delay Cascades 👉 Transportation expenses (internally or externally) 👉 Catheter kits spoilage & expiration 👉 Patient and family dissatisfaction 👉 Reputation and brand damage Vascular Wellness has extensive geographic and redundant coverage of skilled and certified nurse employees helping to ensure timely service and avoiding treatment delays. Unlike all other bedside options, our nurses provide advanced central lines at the bedside, reducing the need for transportation internally to IR/OR or externally to a hospital. Vascular Wellness ➡ Superior and reliable services. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ejpzxCt2 #vascularaccess #delaycascade #PICCteam #medicalprocedure #mobilevascularaccess in #Virginia #VHHA #NorthCarolina #SouthCarolina and the #southeast #vascularaccessprocedure #PICCservice #advancedvascularaccess #centralline #delaycascade #isavethatline #nurselife #nursesonlinkedin #nursesoffacebook

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The expertise Nurse Practitioners bring to the table can vary from specialty to specialty, but their soft skills are transcendent. Their exquisite empathy, communication skills, and poise facilitate strong bonds with their patients while maintaining the needed demeanor to make tough decisions in stressful situations. #nursepractioner #npweek #npawareness #womenshealth #obgyn #ovariancancer #ovariancancerawareness #endometriosis

According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for healthcare professionals in anesthesia services is expected to keep rising through 2030. As the demand for providers continues to climb through the back half of this decade, facilities will need to reflect on how they build out their staff to ensure all of their needs are being met. Learn more about our locum tenens and permanent placement solutions here → https://scianesthesia.com/

A moving article about the current physician shortage in New Hampshire, especially within primary care. Similar situations are occurring across the country. "Medical practices are full, not taking new patients or putting everyone on a waitlist. Health care systems and outpatient practices are using more nurse practitioners and physician assistants than ever to diagnose and treat a wider variety of conditions, reserving the few doctors on staff for the most complex or serious ailments." A wide range of solutions are required to fix the problem, but NPs and PAs are being relied on more than ever before to help close the healthcare gap. #zivianhealth #healthcareaccess #primarycare #nursepractitioner #physicianassistant #healthcareinnovation #physicianshortage

This problem is solvable. Here’s how: Scrap roster targets. No one cares. Patients don’t care about roster size. Patients care about access. Roster size is meaningless if patients can’t access care when they need it. Scheduling is a science that requires a scientific approach. #3NA or “Third Next Available” appointment is a scientific measurement of how long it takes patients to access providers when they want to schedule an appointment. ⏱️ A good 3NA metric indicates there is a good balance between demand for providers and provider capacity. But as with any scientific model, education, standardization, measurement, and reporting tools are needed to successfully implement. So, instead of rewarding doctors for high roster counts, we should: a) give them 3NA scheduling tools, training, and targets b) pay bonuses when they hit 🎯 Could it be this simple? 💡Curious to hear about your experience with 3NA (it’s old news). Comment below 👇 #3NA #PatientAccess #ThirdNextAvailable #PatientCentredMetrics #PatientCentredOutcomes

Personal relationships are especially important in virtual care, and this recent JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association study is more evidence. The study found that remote patient monitoring works better for minority groups when it is accompanied by nurse phone calls. Seeing a provider virtually should not mean sacrificing the relationships you build when you’re in-person. As we lead the transition to better virtual care, this has been front of mind for us at TytoCare. Read more about this research, published in the JAMA: https://okt.to/hwvclf

#AmericanCollegeofSurgeons, #ACS, continues on the warpath against #PrimaryCare #physicians. “The American College of #Surgeons and 18 other #specialty groups published a statement describing the new code as "unnecessary." They oppose its implementation because it would primarily benefit primary care providers who, they say, already have the flexibility to bill more for more complex visits.”(!) Welcome to a #TragedyofTheCommons! Who deserves more? #CMS to decide. #Healthcarecosts #Healthcarevalue #ValuebasedCare #PatientCenteredCare #Medicare #AMA #RUC