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America’s life expectancy is not doing pretty good in terms of standing against other countries such as Turkey, Portugal and Slovenia despite having to spend %4 trillion every year on health care. If in the past we have looked at the problem within the four corners of healthcare facilities, improving services, better equipment, right nurse-to-patient ratio, more research and development to prevent or cure...
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As we end the month of May, let’s look back how different organizations honored their nurses during the National Nurses Month celebration.
Some organizations offered programs that can benefit their nursing staff such as ARMC:
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) hosted a full calendar of events for National Nurses Month. It’s a four-week program divided into the four focus areas of National...
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For the past 2 years, we have been hit by a pandemic that traumatized the world. The COVID-19 pandemic. Many jobs have been affected and a lot of companies closed, transportation stopped, and economies declined. But with the help of the vaccines, we have recovered, though not fully yet, we have continued to live our lives and push through the pandemic era.
Just this month, the World Health Organization (WHO),...
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There has been a surge of interest in Artificial Intelligence with the rise of various AI in the technology space such as ChatGPT, Google Assistant, Chatbot, Leap AI, and many more. This leaves us a question on how AI can support certain functions that we normally do, and definitely recruitment is one area that can fully benefit from AI technology.
Currently, the post-pandemic situation has ease-up...
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In our last article, we have tackled a few things about staying healthy while working on night shifts. In this article, we will be continuing to give more ways on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working night shifts.
Keep your household in the loop- letting your family members or those you are living with know your work schedule would help a lot in and accommodate the desired sleep schedule you need. You...
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In 2023, there are still remaining trends that came off from the whirlwind of changes in the landscape of the workforce in the past years. Experts have gathered what remains to be still the demand of the majority of workers and that have employers may need to continue to be cognizant of them:
Schedule flexibility – a high number of nurses who have been in contracts would opt to be in a permanent...
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We are all motivated by nature. And with this character embedded in our systems, most of us may be prompted into having more jobs than the usual person to cope up with our bills. These side jobs are called “Side Hustle”. Most of our healthcare professionals tend to have one or more of them.
Though side hustles add to a person’s busyness, they can also make life more fulfilling for them, help...
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Artificial Intelligence or also known as AI is a term used to describe the use of machine-learning algorithms and software to mimic human cognition in the analysis, presentation, and comprehension of complex medic and healthcare data. AI specifically has the ability of computer algorithms to approximate conclusions based solely on data inputted in them.
The emergence of AI being used in healthcare has been...
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In any organization, strong leadership is truly vital to ensure the company's stability and growth. In this challenging time for all businesses, it is very important to ensure that there are layers of leadership who understand the vision, strategy and operations of the business. And before we can even go further into their capability, it is important to note important qualities a healthcare leader must possess:...
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The COVID-19 pandemic showed our nation how vulnerable our healthcare is. It also showed us that Mental Health conditions are a sort of a comorbidity in our healthcare professionals. Because of the pandemic, a lot of people are afraid to go out of their houses, especially to hospitals or clinics for their periodic check-ups. That’s why Telehealth became popular in those dangerous times.
Telehealth, a...
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During the pandemic, there have been a lot of buzzwords to call some events or processes such as "The Great Resignation." Now this old school strategy for hiring has also been given a new nickname recently, it is now called "Quiet Hiring." Quiet hiring is when companies fill in some positions by hiring existing employees who already have knowledge about the company’s vision, operations, processes and...
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In honor of the recently celebrated Healthcare HR Professionals week, we would like to focus on the importance of human resource management in healthcare. Healthcare is an industry that focuses on addressing health concerns. Everyone plays a very important role from interns, back office support and administration, the food and safety, facility crew, to the technicians, nurses, to the physicians and up to...