Tablets Make the Job Easier for Healthcare Personnel in a Number of Ways
Tablets have become a common sight in medical offices and hospitals, as well as other clinical settings. Why is that? It’s simple – tablets make the job easier for healthcare providers in many ways. 1. Make information available immediately In days gone by, information was recorded in a patient’s paper chart. If a doctor needed […]
Cutting Costs in Healthcare Is a Bad Idea
Everyone wants to save money. In healthcare, that translates to cutting costs. Unfortunately, many cost-cutting measures are not the best thing for patients or care providers. There’s much more to this equation than the bottom line. What NOT to do A recent article in Harvard Business Review noted that many attempts to cut healthcare costs […]
Manage Stress with Work-Life Balance
There are 168 hours in a week. If a person spends 45 hours at work, that leaves 123 hours. Subtracting eight hours per night for sleep leaves 67 hours for everything else. That sounds good, especially because for most people it outweighs the amount of time spent at work. However, there are many demands on […]
Am I Burned Out? What Does It Feel Like?
Tough day at work? Everyone has days like that, but some days feel worse than typical bad days. And sometimes, it feels like every day falls into that category. When that happens, employees may say they feel burned out. The phenomenon of burnout is not unique to healthcare, but an article from PubMed Health notes […]
Where Can I Work Besides a Hospital?
Allied healthcare professionals are critical to patient care, with the majority of CSTs and sterile techs employed in medical and surgical hospitals—but this isn’t the only clinical setting where their skills are in demand. That begs the question – what other jobs can a surgical tech do? The answer for where surgical techs can work includes […]