Healthcare organizations must focus on caring for their patients, not on paperwork. Unfortunately, managing contracts can be a tedious and time-consuming task for all businesses. But with the right approach, it can be streamlined and efficient. This blog post will discuss the different aspects and advantages of contract management software and how using contract management software creates more efficient contract processes.   Key Components of a Contract Management Software   Contract management is your organization’s process of creating, storing, approving and retrieving contracts ..read more

As hospitals have become increasingly complex organizations, effective governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) strategies have become essential for ensuring patient safety and regulatory compliance. Hospitals are responsible for protecting the health and safety of their patients and must remain in compliance with changing regulations and industry standards. In this blog post, we will discuss components of a successful GRC strategy, how hospitals can ensure compliance with regulatory changes, the best ways to measure the effectiveness of a GRC strategy, and how hospitals can ensure their GRC str ..read more

Nurses and healthcare professionals are jugglers. We have many competing responsibilities to keep up with. An important, yet often overlooked, responsibility is to maintain healthcare policies. While this is an essential task, it can be time-consuming and tedious. Fortunately, there are ways to simplify the nurse policy review process. Use these steps to make it easier to stay up-to-date and compliant with the latest regulations.     Simplify the Nursing Policy and Procedure Process   It doesn’t have to be hard to keep nursing policies up-to-date and organized. Below are four st ..read more

Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety.    The World Health Organization estimates that 134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, resulting in some 2.6 million deaths (2019). Additionally, some 40 percent of patients experience harm in ambulatory and primary care settings with an estimated 80 percent of these harms being preventable, according to WHO.   Recent studies of medical errors have estimated errors may account fo ..read more

Success within a healthcare facility is highly dependent upon the state of its nursing policies. Nursing policies provide a framework to ensure safe and efficient patient care.    Healthcare organizations need to address nursing policies and procedure issues with urgency and nurses must understand the importance of policies and procedures and how they help ensure patient and staff safety.   In this blog post, we will discuss the importance of nursing policies and how to introduce and implement those policies in your healthcare facility.   Importance of Policies and Procedur ..read more

Nursing policy management is essential to ensuring quality patient care, yet creating and maintaining health policy presents a significant challenge for most healthcare facilities.    Nursing policy protects the patient who receives care and the nurse who gives it. Nursing policy management establishes guidelines for procedures, stipulates the standards of care given, and provides a safe healthcare environment. It merges disparities in nursing programs to present a united organizational front. Nursing policy management is an expectation of stakeholders and is critical to delivering q ..read more

  Sepsis Survivors week is February 12 – 18.  Sepsis Alliance is partnering with sepsis survivors to honor their experience by sharing their individual stories of survival and bringing awareness to the unseen mental, emotional, and physical challenges many survivors face every day.   Sepsis kills 350,000 adults each year in the United States, but did you know that up to 50% of sepsis survivors are left with physical and/or psychological long-term effects, a condition known as post-sepsis syndrome. Many sepsis survivors report symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Sepsis su ..read more

  As a nurse, it is crucial to understand the difference between nursing procedures and policies. Both are essential elements that contribute to patient and employee safety. Nurses need a basic understanding of the differences between the two concepts. A nursing procedure is a set of steps necessary to carry out a specific activity, such as administering medication. Policy, on the other hand, is a statement that guides an organization’s decisions and actions. This blog post will explore the differences between nursing procedures and policy and discuss why both are necessary for healthcare ..read more

Customer Experience and Success with our Policy Management Software MCN Healthcare is the industry leader in policy management software. Our software is trusted by many healthcare organizations and our Implementation Specialists and Technical Services teams are the best in the industry. We will always go above and beyond to ensure our customers’ success. Here is what our customers are saying:   I would like to thank MCN Healthcare for the policy management software that made our transition from manual to online documents easy. I must sincerely thank the MCN team for all the support during ..read more

Hero Women Rising aims to improve the conditions in which women and adolescent girls live in South Kivu province, eastern D.R. Congo.   To achieve this end, Hero Women Rising uses education and technology to amplify women’s voices; teach them to advocate for their rights and for the natural environment; build their economic capacity; and support the development of other community grassroots women’s organizations. Hero Women Rising programs include:   Keeping Girls in School Girl Ambassadors for Peace Girls’ School in Itombwe Technology & Transformation Planting Trees Ability and ..read more