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Code Lavender: Healthcare Providers Caring for Themselves

By Sheramy Tsai - July 20, 2017

Stress is an inherent part of working in the health care system. While health care providers become accustomed to the daily stressors involved in their jobs, some moments arise that push caregivers past their emotional limits. Whether these situations consist of the death of a colleague, a stressful interaction between two health care providers, a difficult patient situation, or a variety of other stress-inducing situations, “Code Lavender” may be just what the doctor ordered.

Code Lavender - Healthcare Providers Caring for Themselves

Move to Management or Stay as an Individual Contributor?

By Susan Gulliford CPRW - June 13, 2017

The Important Career Question As you progress in your healthcare career, you might explore management opportunities. If most of your career has been in an individual contributor role, making the leap

Move to Management or Stay as an Individual Contributor?

Better Job Offer? Leave Your Current Position the Right Way

By Ron Lewis - June 7, 2017

Congratulations! Your hard work and career accomplishments have made you attractive to other employers, and you now have a job offer in hand for a better position. I’m sure you’re proud and excited. However, before you break out the champagne, there’s a little unfinished business – you have to part ways with your current employer.

High Paying Healthcare Jobs in Unexpected Places

By Susan Gulliford CPRW - April 25, 2017

When you think of states with great, high-paying job opportunities, California, Texas, and New York probably come to mind. However, healthcare is different. Due to shortages, some unexpected states have high paying positions. This data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides insights into the great variation in earnings across the country...

High Paying Healthcare Jobs in Unexpected Places

Don't Let Negative Coworkers Bring You Down

By MaryAnn DePietro - April 4, 2017

Hopefully, your work environment is filled with great managers and full of supportive co-workers. But even if you have a good working relationship with most of your colleagues, you might occasionally

Don't Let Negative Coworkers Bring You Down

Making Evidence Based Practice an Easier Practice

By Allison Clark - March 23, 2017

The medical field is a wonderful balance of art and science. More and more, we, as practitioners, have access to the science and research at our fingertips. At the same time, our patients have more

Making Evidence Based Practice an Easier Practice

Electronic Health Records: The Scourge

By Faith A. Coleman, MD - March 2, 2017

The consensus among users is that what is needed most in EHRs is interoperability. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has defined interoperability as "the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and use the information that has been exchanged." Interoperability opens the way for many new digital tools — such as apps for both physicians and patients — to make data-sharing among EHRs a priceless asset, not a source of frustration. We need access to patient records in EHRs from different systems. This type of communication was one of the fundamental lacks that the transition from paper was meant to remedy. The issue, unfortunately, is commercially driven lack of cooperation, not lack of technology....