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COLLABORATION: BUILDING STRONGER RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS DEPARTMENTS FOR NURSES Discover the power of effective collaboration in healthcare. Learn how developing strong relationships with departments like radiology and physical therapy can elevate patient care and enhance teamwork. #NursesRock #NurseLife #NursesFeedTheirYoung #DareToDoNursingDifferently #NursingLeadership

COLLABORATION: BUILDING STRONGER RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS DEPARTMENTS FOR NURSES Discover the power of effective collaboration in healthcare. Learn how developing strong relationships with departments like radiology and physical therapy can elevate patient care and enhance teamwork. #NursesRock #NurseLife #NursesFeedTheirYoung #DareToDoNursingDifferently #NursingLeadership

A wise mentor once said… “Ericka, why are physicians so valuable to the hospital?” my reply as a young healthcare admin intern, “Because we can’t take care of patients without them.”…. “Not wrong, but they are the only ones who can write an order.” That dynamic has shifted to include more APPs, but it still holds true. Physicians Drive #Hospital Revenue... To the Tune of $1.56M Per Doctor Per Year. See Breakdown by #Specialty. A Survey of Hospital CFOs by the Physician Recruiting Firm Merritt Hawkins & Associates Found that #Doctors Drive $1.56 Million in Hospital #Revenue Per Doctor Per Year by Ordering Tests, Performing Procedures, Etc. #Orthopedic Surgeons Generated the Most at $2.75 Million in Hospital Revenue Per Orthopedist Per Year. Interventional #Cardiologists Generated $2.45 Million in Hospital Revenue Per Cardiologist Per Year. General #Surgeons Generated $2.17 Million in Hospital Revenue Per Surgeon Per Year. #FamilyPractice Doctors Generated $1.5 Million in Hospital Revenue Per Doctor Per Year. Sources Eric Bricker, MD, and Ahealthcarez.

ICYMI: #Physician #CareerAdvice 5 Tips for Choosing a Physician Specialty: Choosing a medical specialty is a crucial step in navigating your career as an attending physician, so it's important to consider various factors to ensure a balanced lifestyle and fulfilling professional career. Here are 5 tips for choosing your medical specialty.

Versatility in Case Review I recently had a client reach out and ask me to assist with a case. He said he knew that the case involved an area I didn’t necessarily have experience in at the bedside. However, he wanted me to review the records because he trusted me and my work product. I was asked to complete a condensed chronology that included my analysis/comments (for him) but also one that didn’t so that it could be sent to an expert for review with the records. Behind-the-scenes LNC work is unique. Depending on what is being asked of you, you don’t necessarily have to have the exact experience in the particular area the case and claims are about. For example, most of my nursing experience is inpatient medical-surgical, telemetry/cardiac, and spine/ortho surgery. However, I’ve assisted with cases that have involved injuries sustained in the OR, ICU, ED, outpatient doctor’s office, etc. With my experience as a bedside nurse, I: ➡ Can extract the relevant information based on the claims and injuries. ➡ Have developed the necessary critical thinking skills to analyze the records. ➡ Can research standards of care in a particular area or reach out to those with experience in that area if unsure. ➡ Am able to research different medical aspects I may not be 100% familiar with so that I can educate my attorney-client and give them nursing insights into the records. I will be the first to pass on a case (or sub it out!) if I am not 100% confident I can produce high-quality and accurate work. Like OB/birth injury cases…..that’s a no from me. I wouldn’t even know where to begin! As a behind-the-scenes LNC, I am very versatile in the types of cases I can review!! Happy Wednesday! #trialattorney #medicalmalpracticeattorney #personalinjuryattorney #medicalmalpractice

Balancing Time and Patients How much time is a good time? I have been meeting doctors for several reasons. I see variable number of patients waiting in doctors waiting room. My very close school friend who is a medical representative(MR) keeps telling me stories of some senior consultants opd numbers (number of patients seen by one doctor in one day) On other side few of my friends who are consultant practioners in developed world have fixed number of patients to see everyday and they have long queue of several months for their elective appointment. The number of patients seen by a physician(postgraduate doctor who evaluates, consults and writes prescription) in a day vs a surgeon(a postgraduate who consults and treats by means of a surgery most of the time) is variable. As per my perception most of the family physicians(primary care doctor who is a graduate of the field) in India on an average see 100 to 150 patients in a day the number is around 50-60 for physician and 10-20 for a surgeon. The question which is making me puzzled is how much time for each patient is enough time. Even if say 10 mins; that's 600 minutes(10hours) for a physician. Now imagine a doctor doing this everyday. I really appreciate the energy people have to treat patients and the bandwidth to preacribe,council,and answer to all the queries patient have. At the same time despite given more than adequate time in the western world patient satisfaction is not same there. At the same time I also see good number of learned qualified doctors running from piller to post to do adequate consults in a day. What's going wrong? I feel doctors should have a manageable workload that allows them to provide quality care without burnout. This balance may vary by specialty and individual preferences. Effective Use of Time: Efficient use of time through support staff, technology, or streamlined processes can help doctors see more patients without compromising care quality. Patient-Centered Care: Emphasis on patient-centered care, active listening, and shared decision-making can enhance patient satisfaction even in shorter appointments. Achieving equanimity in workloads for equally qualified and talented doctors is a complex challenge. It requires a combination of healthcare system reforms, supportive working environments, and ongoing research to determine the ideal balance between time spent with patients and the number of patients seen. Ultimately, the adequate time for a patient is a balance between quality care and practicality within the specific healthcare context. Striving for improved patient satisfaction and physician well-being should be ongoing goals for healthcare systems worldwide. What do you feel what is adequate time for a patient? What should be adequate number where a doctor can stop his days consults.? When will there be equanimity of work in equally qualified and talented people. I will love to hear your thoughts..... #Jupiterhospital

NDTP are delighted to announce the launch of our Annual Medical Workforce Analysis Report for 2023-2024. This report gives an overview of the publicly funded medical workforce in Ireland for 2023 as well as highlighting changes in the workforce over recent years. Some of the main findings are: · 12% increase in the overall number of Consultants employed · 16% growth in the number of Consultants employed in Model 3 Hospitals · 4% growth in the number of doctors in training i.e. those doctors undertaking Basic Specialist Training (BST), Higher Specialist Training (HST) · 21% increase in the number of doctors in non-training posts between December 2022 and December 2023 Check out our report attached to this post or at this link: https://lnkd.in/eUcZSckj College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Irish College of General Practitioners Irish College of Ophthalmologists Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Medical Council Sean Casey Daniel Creegan #RetentionReport #NCHD #DoctorsinTraining #MedicalWorkforceAnalysisReport

Echoing the question shared by Lali Sekhon, MD PhD MBA, tangentially. "What are they thinking?" Understanding the ethos of their admin would provide insights. The present Admin of CMS, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, is a tenured policy wonk and also an idealogue of a larger apparatchik. (Akin to a slightly different flavor of Andy Slavitt.). She is not Seema Verma. Healthcare is a third-rail. These admin roles are thankless and, honestly, hard to really succeed at. (Depending on one's definition of "success.") But looking at the framework of her past advocacy (particularly w the ACA and work within Ralph Northam's admin), her core philosophies are obvious: central planning of healthcare with "covered lives" being a critical success metric. (Never mind that "coverage" and "access" are two different things in healthcare; which the ACA laid bare almost immediately.) I have linked to a white paper she published in 2020 in the links below. (Cliffs Note version - We fixed the problem in 2010, but we still need more money ($30.5B in subsidies for reinsurance), more bureacracy and more central planning.) In short, I'm not sure they care about these individual adjustments. There is a long game being played. Meanwhile everyone is involved in a knife-fight to get their piece of a healthcare pie that continues to expand despite (or maybe because of) the best efforts of these vested partisans. I will ask again : For whom exactly did the "Affordable Care Act" make healthcare affordable? #CMS #healthcare #affordablehealthcare #politics #hospitals

Joyce Sunada’s overwhelmingly popular statement, now on placards and posters, was made when, as an educator for more than 30 years, she was forced to take a medical leave from teaching. Sunada’s words ring true in an age where many people are itching to find ways to be healthier and enjoy their lives to the fullest without having to worry too much about developing illness. But what does “healthier” really mean? How can we even begin to monitor our health so we, hopefully, will not have to make time for illness in the future? A good read from Harold Thimbleby entitled, “Technology and the Future of Healthcare” Here’s the intro… Pluck a nurse and surgeon out of the nineteenth century and transport them into a modern 21st century hospital and it would be a thoroughly recognizable place, with the same hierarchies and strict cultures. Patients treated as helpless, stripped of their clothes and possessions, lying in beds and almost completely ignorant of their illness. They might be disappointed in our treatment particularly of old people, but I don’t think it would surprise them. If our two time-travellers were able to attend a post-mortem and listen in on a discussion of human error, very little would seem novel. Clinicians would still be in denial, lawyers would still be hovering, and the delay and deny culture would be no surprise. However, the changes that would surprise the nurse and surgeon are all changes to technology. Infusion pumps, dialysis machines, antibiotics, heart valves, MRI scanners, even hand washing stations would be new ideas. All the hidden technology used in the laboratories behind the scenes, from path labs to decontamination, would be startlingly new if it was noticed. Although the medical culture is similar, there have been dramatic technological changes, and actually these changes would be hard to explain. Does anybody even know how an infusion pump works? They used to be clockwork (and before that, gravity fed) and now almost everything contains a computer and has a colourful screen and lots of buttons. Implanted defibrillators that use telephone networks and web sites to keep cardiologists up to date with their patients are just magic; new pharmaceuticals that change moods, change blood pressure, or kill bacteria: all are modern magic. On reflection, given the centuries of stability, it is amazing how much healthcare has changed in the last 150 years – and one wonders how this accelerating pace of change will proceed in the future. Arthur C. Clarke, the prolific futurist and science fiction writer, famously said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Perhaps the main difference for the couple lifted out of the nineteenth century is they are sure it’s magic, whereas we have stopped thinking about it, and just take it for granted! Continue reading @ https://lnkd.in/efZ-UDPw

The physical presence of radiologists is no longer a necessity in reading rooms, thanks to advancements in technology. And, with the August 2022 ACR changes to CT and MRI accreditation, under the right circumstances, radiologists' physical presence is no longer required at outpatient imaging centers either. Previous ACR regulations required radiologists to make long commutes to outpatient imaging centers to provide contrast supervision. But, as of August 2022, that's a problem of the past. Under the new regulations, non-radiologist physicians, advanced practice providers, and registered nurses (under particular circumstances) can directly supervise contrast administration under the general supervision of a radiologist, enabling radiologists to focus on high-value work, remotely. At Contrast Coverage Texas, we're at the forefront of this transformation, empowering radiologists to make the most of their valuable time and eliminating the need for lengthy commutes to outpatient centers. Our mission is to enhance healthcare efficiency and improve patient care, all while ensuring compliance and safety. Join us in shaping the future of contrast supervision