Search results for "Staffing"
The evolution of the HM team
Hospital medicine (HM) programs increasingly employ nurse practitioners and physician assistants, but optimizing their role is still a work in progress for many.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/12/11/the-evolution-of-the-hm-team.htm
11 Dec 2024
Model simulates effects of proposed changes to hospital staffing and wards
Researchers simulated four scenarios: geographically localizing housestaff and patients, adding a nursing unit, adding a hospitalist team, and adding both a nursing unit and a hospitalist team.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/12/05/3.htm
5 Dec 2018
April 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/04/
ICU staffed by NPs had similar mortality, costs to traditional resident staffing model
The study was conducted at a large urban academic hospital, which launched an 8-bed medical ICU staffed by 2 NPs at a time in January 2012.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/09/28/2.htm
28 Sep 2016
June 1, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/01/
Nighttime intensivist staffing may reduce death in some ICUs
Adding nighttime intensivist staffing to a low-intensity daytime staffing model was associated with lower mortality, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/05/23/2.htm
23 May 2012
Improving interpretation for inpatients
Experts offer tips for hospitalists on providing care to patients speaking any language amid an ongoing shortage of interpreters.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/11/27/improving-interpretation-for-inpatients.htm
27 Nov 2024
Why are there so many patients?
A researcher discusses recent study results indicating that hospital capacity challenges might have more to do with postacute care than the ED.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/08/14/why-are-there-so-many-patients.htm
14 Aug 2024
Tactics for managing surge capacity evaluated in survey of academic hospital leaders
The most valued strategies included appropriate staffing, proactive data-driven approaches, and discharge planning at the time of admission, yet hospitalist and hospital leaders reported that low-cost solutions like discharge lounges and huddles were usually implemented first.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/12/22/2.htm
22 Dec 2021
Stuck in the hospital
Delayed discharges of medically stable patients are a problem that's not going away.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/09/18/stuck-in-the-hospital.htm
18 Sep 2024