Rachel Yates, RN
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Conditions and diseases
Walk into any independent primary care practice and ask the nurse what she did on her lunch break. There's a good chance she'll tell you she was on the phone with the daughter of a dementia patient, calling the dialysis…
Walk into any independent primary care practice and ask the nurse what she did on her lunch break. There’s a good chance she’ll tell you she was on the phone with the daughter of a dementia patient, calling the dialysis center to sort out a transportation problem, or following up on the discharge med rec for the COPD patient who landed in the ED again last week. None of it …
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Medicare will pay for the work your nurses already do
Conditions and diseases
In my years as an ICU nurse, I learned to recognize a pattern. The patients I cared for in trauma surgical intensive care often arrived after a cascade of preventable events. A missed medication. A symptom that went unaddressed. A…
In my years as an ICU nurse, I learned to recognize a pattern. The patients I cared for in trauma surgical intensive care often arrived after a cascade of preventable events. A missed medication. A symptom that went unaddressed. A follow-up appointment that never happened. By the time they reached my unit, the question was no longer how to keep them well at home. It was how to bring them …
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Patients pay when Medicare care coordination codes go unused
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