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Building Strength Through Collaboration: What Faith Community Nurses Need To Know, Marcia A. Potter
Building Strength Through Collaboration: What Faith Community Nurses Need To Know, Marcia A. Potter
International Journal of Faith Community Nursing
This article is a practical guide and viewpoint narrative that offers definitions, justifications for, process steps, and a how-to checklist for Faith Community Nurses considering collaboration between multiple agencies outside of their own. The author offers simple guidelines and how-to advice on securing success, avoiding risks, and preventing costly misunderstandings between cooperating agencies when combining resources.
Collaborative Strategies Used To Reduce Billing Administrative Cost, Stella Fayomi-Olaleye
Collaborative Strategies Used To Reduce Billing Administrative Cost, Stella Fayomi-Olaleye
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Billing inefficiencies represent 80% of wasteful healthcare administrative costs that are projected to reach $45 billion by 2018. Potentially, a reduced billing administrative cost is estimated to yield an annual savings of $60 billion that could fund other societal needs such as jobs, wage increases, and education. Through the conceptual framework of iceberg change management model, this single case study explored collaborative strategies 3 healthcare billing managers in Dallas, Texas successfully used to reduce billing administrative costs. Data were collected through semistructured interviews and the review of company documents. Using Yin's procedure of examining, comparing, categorizing, and coding data, the …
How Does Organizational Culture Impact Rn Engagement, Veronica Anntionette Ruffin-Ellis
How Does Organizational Culture Impact Rn Engagement, Veronica Anntionette Ruffin-Ellis
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Lack of RN engagement in the acute care setting can result in poor staffing, nursing shortages, increased stress levels for nurses and decreased morale. When nurses are not engaged in their work setting, quality of care suffers. A wide range of literature focuses on the importance of RN engagement; however, few health care organizations have taken the initiative to implement programs that foster RN engagement, demonstrating a gap in practice. This study examined the relationship between the levels of RN engagement and their perceptions of their organizational culture. Kolcaba's humanistic approach to meeting the needs of RN staff was used …
Making It Real: Faculty Collaboration To Create Video Content, Claudia J. Dold, Gary Dudell
Making It Real: Faculty Collaboration To Create Video Content, Claudia J. Dold, Gary Dudell
Claudia J. Dold
Interest in integrative health care is a growing area of health practice, combining conventional medical treatments with safe and effective complementary and alternative medicine. These modalities relate to both improving physical and psychological well-being, and enhancing conventional talk therapy. In an interdisciplinary collaboration, teaching and library faculty have created a series of sixteen on-line video interviews that introduce practitioner-relevant experiences to students as supplemental course material. These videos are available through the department web-pages to students in other related disciplines as well, including Social Work, Counselor Education, Psychology, and the Colleges of Public Health, Nursing, and Medicine. The video series …
Making It Real: Faculty Collaboration To Create Video Content, Claudia J. Dold, Gary Dudell
Making It Real: Faculty Collaboration To Create Video Content, Claudia J. Dold, Gary Dudell
Claudia J. Dold
Interest in integrative health care is a growing area of health practice, combining conventional medical treatments with safe and effective complementary and alternative medicine. These modalities relate to both improving physical and psychological well-being, and enhancing conventional talk therapy. In an interdisciplinary collaboration, teaching and library faculty have created a series of sixteen on-line video interviews that introduce practitioner-relevant experiences to students as supplemental course material. These videos are available through the department web-pages to students in other related disciplines as well, including Social Work, Counselor Education, Psychology, and the Colleges of Public Health, Nursing, and Medicine. The video series …