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John Nelson, MD, MHM

Dr. Nelson has been a practicing hospitalist since 1988. He is co-founder and past president of SHM and principal in Nelson Flores Hospital Medicine Consultants. He is co-director for SHM’s “Best Practices in Managing a Hospital Medicine Program” course. Write to him at [email protected].

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    Opinion

    Hospital Groups Might Do Better Without Daytime Admission Shifts, Morning Meetings

    October 5, 2015

    [caption id="attachment_11415" align="alignright" width="295"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] You shouldn’t maintain things that do not deliver the value you anticipated when you first put them in place.

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    Opinion

    Why Hospitalist Morale is Declining and Ways to Improve It

    September 2, 2015

    [caption id="attachment_11094" align="alignright" width="250"] Some hospitals have begun to resist providing more support, and this translates into stress and lower morale for hospitalists.

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    Opinion

    Tips for Hospitalists on Spending More of Their Time at the Top of Their License

    July 29, 2015

    [caption id="attachment_10717" align="alignright" width="250"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COMI think arranging post-hospital appointments should be no more difficult for the hospitalist than ordering a CBC.[/caption] Hospitalists spend too little time working at the top of their license.

  • Opinion

    Hospital Medicine’s Old Practices Become New Again

    July 6, 2015

    The musty collections of National Geographic magazines once found in so many basements are largely gone. Replacing them are dusty sets of the Advisory Board binders and booklets found in hospital administration offices around the country.

  • Opinion

    Standard Text Messaging for Smartphones Not HIPAA Compliant

    June 1, 2015

    [caption id="attachment_9892" align="alignright" width="275"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] Doctors were the first to begin using pagers and, along with drug dealers, appear to be the last to give them up.

  • Opinion

    Rapid-Response Teams Help Hospitalists Manage Non-Medical Distress

    April 3, 2015

    A team that could respond quickly to social and behavioral concerns—and not medical issues per se—would have tremendous benefits for patients and caregivers. I think there has been a steady increase, over the last 20 years or so, in the number of very unhappy, angry, or misbehaving patients (e.g.

  • Opinion

    Geographic Rounding of Hospital Nurses Challenges Unit-Based Theory

    March 3, 2015

    Nurses, of course, have always been assigned by unit—that is, geographically. So it should come as no surprise that searching “unit-based” at the-hospitalist.org returns many articles about assigning hospitalists geographically, but not nurses, partly because few would consider it a new idea.

  • Opinion

    How to Use Hospitalist Productivity, Compensation Survey Data

    January 7, 2015

    The 2014 State of Hospital Medicine report (SOHM), published by SHM in the fall of even years, is unquestionably the most robust and informative data available to understand the hospitalist workforce marketplace.

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    Hospitals’ Observation Status Designation May Trigger Malpractice Claims

    November 3, 2014

    Hospitals' Observation Status Designation May Trigger Malpractice Claims

  • Opinion

    Put Key Principles, Characteristics of Effective Hospital Medicine Groups to Work

    September 2, 2014

    Tooklit offers insight on high-efficiency HM groups, provides a guide to enact change

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