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We Need to Breathe
By Craig Boguslawski, RN, CCM We Need to Breathe (and We Need to Breathe Oxygen to Live) COVID-19 has caused many infected people to develop hypoxia. An assessment of persons with dyspnea after covid frequently have a low oxygen saturation via pulse oximeter and are...
The Health Trinity: Health Promotion, Health Advocacy and Health Literacy
As a native Louisianian, Cajun & Creole cooking is in my DNA and one of my favorite pastimes. There is an old saying from my hometown, “Children learn to cook before they read a book”. I guess that can be interpreted several ways, but our family’s meaning is that...
Advocacy – Getting Involved and Making a Difference
By Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHCQM, CHRI Vice President, Regulations and Education Group R1 RCM Inc. Physician Advisory Solutions Every single day each one of us makes a difference in our work. Whether it is arranging home durable medical equipment, setting up a...
Improving Health Equity Through The Nurse Licensure Compact
By Eric Bergman, RN, BA, CCM It has become cliche to talk about how the past year has changed this or affected that, but the fact remains that the pandemic is one of the most influential events of our generation. Among the things exposed by the pandemic have been the...
Valentine’s Day A New Way
It’s Valentine’s Day: A Day that strikes fear into the hearts of gift-givers everywhere, that makes happy couples giddy, that makes unhappy couples cringe (how do you find the perfect card to say, “You don’t make me sick all the time?”), that makes some singles feel...
COVID Detecting Dogs: Is this the Wave of the Future?
By Janet Coulter, MSN, MS, RN, CCM Can dogs be trained to identify an olfactory scent of the coronavirus? Could this be a quick screening method to identify persons with COVID-19? In 2020, scientists started exploring the possibility of training dogs to sniff out the...
3 Ways to Get More Time Back in Your Day While Still Meeting the Needs of Patients
By John Bernot, MD Working late trying to reach patients before surgery to make sure they know when to stop taking medication and confirm they’ve been managing their diabetes effectively? John Bernot Or maybe you have been going into the office early to look through...
The Case Manager’s Role: Digging Deep In A Data Driven World
By Michelle M. Crook, BSN, RN, CCM, BCPA We are surrounded by numbers, and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made even those of us who are not typically "numbers people" look closely at data, trends and similar numbers-driven information. For some time, we have had the...
The Patient Journey Through The Continuum Of Care
By Marie Stinebuck, MBA, MSN, ACM, AND Tiffany Ferguson, LMSW, CMAC, ACM Patient satisfaction and the prevention of readmissions are continuously discussed as quality metrics for hospital success. With an increased focus on these and other metrics to continually...
It’s a Family Affair
By Melanie Prince, CMSA President I am excited about the year 2022 and committed to looking forward to a bright future with endless possibilities. But I must make one exception and look back for a moment as I reflect on a wonderful time with family this past holiday...
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