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10 Things That Should Be In Every Psychiatric Nursing Progress Note

10 Things to Include in Psychiatric Nursing Notes

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN February 16, 2018

10 Things That Should Be In Psychiatric Nursing Notes Inpatient psychiatric nurses play a vital role as information collectors, so psychiatrists can make the right medication…

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Insurers Need to do More to Improve Their Networks

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN February 14, 2018

A recent study by Milliman Inc. shines a light on what many psychiatrists already know: Insurance company restrictions are detrimental to people getting affordable treatment…

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Enforcing the Law and Caring for Mental Health

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN February 11, 2018

Saturday morning cartoons make everything seem so simple, don’t they? Think of the shows you watched as a child. The police officers were the good…

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5 Strategies to Help Your Patients Adapt to New Technology

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN February 4, 2018

In the healthcare field, we often take the advent of new technology as part of the job. It seems there’s always a new device to…

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Are We Entering the Day of the Digitalist?

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN February 1, 2018

“The Digitalist will reside in an e-coordination facility and remotely track data from biosensors, portals, apps, and social media, then combine the data with clinical…

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Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN January 26, 2018

Mental Illness in America More than 43 million Americans are suffering from mental illness, but less than half of those, some 43 percent, receive treatment,…

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The Trend Toward Integrated Healthcare: Mental and Physical Health

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN January 20, 2018

For generations, healthcare professionals were trained to view a patient’s well-being along two different paths. Traditional health went one way and mental health another. The…

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EHR Growth is on its Way to a Big Boom by 2025

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN January 14, 2018

The electronic health records (EHR) market is growing. Those of us active in the space see it every day, and physicians in the marketplace are…

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5 Reasons Fingerprint Scan Technology Makes Sense For Your Practice

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN January 12, 2018

Fingerprint Scan Technology for Patient Identification Should you incorporate a fingerprint scanner into your practice for patient identification? Isn’t it just an additional step in…

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Supporting Seniors’ Mental Health Throughout the Aging Process

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN January 8, 2018

Preserving a person’s life is one of the fundamental goals — if not the fundamental goal — of the medical profession, and our advancements in technology, care…

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