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Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™

The Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™ Grand Challenge (HNHN GC), is a social movement designed to transform the health of the nation by supporting nurses to take positive action to improve health.

The HNHN GC will:

  • Broadly connect and engage individual nurses and partner organizations to take action within five focus areas: physical activity, sleep, nutrition, quality of life, and safety.
  • Provide a web platform to inspire action; cultivate friendly competition; provide content and resources to nurses; gather data; and connect nurses with each other, employers, and organizations.

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Diseases Attacking the Immune SYstem – The DAISY Foundation

The DAISY Foundation was formed in November, 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died at age 33 of complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP). The nursing care Patrick received when hospitalized profoundly touched his family. Read more about why they started The DAISY Foundation.

The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses (The DAISY Award) – to honor the super-human work nurses do for patients and families every day. In creating The DAISY Award, there were three elements we wanted to ensure our recognition program included:

  • A partnership with healthcare organizations to provide on-going recognition of the clinical skill and especially the compassion nurses demonstrate at the bedside all year long.
  • Flexibility so that The DAISY Award may be tailored to each hospital’s unique culture and values.
  • A turn-key program with The DAISY Foundation providing most everything you need to implement The DAISY Award.

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WELCOA’s Seven Benchmarks – Overview & Introduction Worksite Wellness- FREE Webinar

On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 — 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Wellness Council of America (WELCOA) is offering a free webinar: Evolving Employee Wellness Programs.

Engaging team members in worksite wellness programs can be difficult. WELCOA is committed to helping you reframe your strategies and give you the tools necessary to build world-class wellness programs

As a central part of WELCOA’s Well Workplace Process evolution, we’re delivering a revamped certification headlining our Seven Benchmarks. We’re putting more clarity around current and future approaches to wellness. Whether you’re a seasoned professional needing a spark or building a wellness program from the ground up—we’ll sharpen your focus for designing and delivering engaging results-oriented wellness initiatives. In this webinar, you will get the first look at WELCOA’s updated Seven Benchmarks and Checklist tool.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about WELCOA’s Seven Benchmarks approach
  • Create engaging and meaningful worksite wellness initiatives
  • Communicate your organization’s wellness value story

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Healthcentric Advisors – No Cost Learning Center

Healthcentric Advisors would like to invite you to visit The Learning Center, our no cost virtual online learning system, with an Introduction to Statistics and Epidemiology in Infection Prevention. Through this interactive and self-paced module, you will learn about statistical and epidemiological methods that are used in infection prevention and control. New courses will also cover interpreting infection prevention measures (e.g., Standardized Infection Ratios (SIR)) and using Microsoft Excel to collect and analyze your own data.
You will develop a deeper understanding of how statistics and epidemiology are used to inform your clinical practice and harness surveillance, data collection, statistical analysis and reporting skills to inform clinical leadership and monitor population health at your facility.

You can access this series on The Learning Center here…

The Joint Commission (TJC)

The Joint Commission (TJC) has a dedicated portal to share informative and useful resources regarding preventing workplace violence in healthcare settings.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

IHI created a white paper to serve as a guide for healthcare organizations to engage in a participative process where leaders ask colleagues at all levels of the organization, “What matters to you?” — enabling them to better understand the barriers to joy in work, and co-create meaningful, high-leverage strategies to address these issues.

The Greater Good Science Center (GGSC)

The Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) at the University of California, Berkeley, studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of wellbeing, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.

New Report Helps Hospitals Improve Care for Dementia Patients

The Commonwealth’s Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Acute Care Advisory Committee (ARDAC) explored challenges and opportunities to provide optimal care for those with dementia who are in acute care settings. The committee presented options for hospitals to improve both the care and experience for patients and caregivers.

Our goals are to:

  • Identify and communicate the challenges and opportunities for providing  the best possible care to persons with dementia in acute care settings
  • Provide options for hospitals to improve both:
    • The quality of care for the patient
    • The caregiver/provider experience
    • Offer strategies to improve the cost effectiveness of care

The Department of Public Health (DPH), in collaboration with the Executive Office of Elder Affairs, is pleased to share the Committee’s final report: Recommendations from the Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Acute Care Advisory Committee.