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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

Here are some key examples of how permanent healthcare staffing solutions miss the mark: Lack of Medical Staffing Agility Healthcare facilities face significant challenges in maintaining optimal staffing levels due to the unpredictable nature of patient volumes.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here. Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. The person didn’t believe in the medications. Michele: Yep. Eric: Mm-hmm.

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