Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

The Biden administration will finalize a controversial nursing home staffing rule today that includes the more stringent requirements floated in last September’s proposal, Vice President Kamala Har | Later today the federal government will finalize the more stringent version of the Nursing Home Minimum Staffing rule floated last year, Vice President (..)

Nursing Homes 111

Nursing Homes 111

STAT

APRIL 22, 2024

The federal government is for the first time requiring nursing homes to have minimum staffing levels after the Covid-19 pandemic exposed grim realities in poorly staffed facilities  for older and disabled Americans. where she will talk to nursing home care employees about their work.

Nursing Homes 103

Nursing Homes 103

Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 3, 2024

The study highlights the ongoing need for health care providers to recommend respiratory illness vaccinations to increase protection among nursing home residents during the peak season of infection.

Nursing Homes 145

Nursing Homes Vaccines 145

STAT

MARCH 7, 2024

A new study shows that some nursing homes are shunting the majority of their profits off of their own books and into less-visible corners of their owners’ pockets. Nursing homes are hiding their profits by funneling them to “related parties” — companies that share the same owner.

Nursing Homes 145

Nursing Homes 145

STAT

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Hospitals are frustrated with a nationwide nursing shortage that’s only gotten worse since the pandemic. In 2022, the American Hospital Association quoted an estimate that half a million nurses would leave the field by the end of that year, bringing the total shortage to 1.1 Read the rest…

Hospitals 145

Hospitals 145

OctariusRx

MAY 13, 2024

Our 2024 nursing calculations quiz is now available. Nursing medication calculations are a critical component of patient safety. If you’re already part of our team, you can expect to see the 2024 Nursing Medication Calculations Quiz during our upcoming facility visit. Take the quiz and find out! Contact us for assistance.

Long-Term Care Facilities 68

Long-Term Care Facilities Labelling Medication Labelling Documentation 68

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 10, 2024

For over a decade, I worked as a nurse in a Primary Stroke Center caring for critically ill cardiac and stroke patients. Nurses—and the entire clinical and operational team—need to be involved in the vetting process early on to ensure that investments in new AI technology will improve their workflow and, most importantly, patient outcomes.

79

79

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 8, 2024

Agencies have stepped in to fill the gap, often resulting in unp | In-House Health developed an artificial intelligence-driven scheduling and management platform for modern nursing teams. The startup picked up $4 million in seed funding from NEA and TMV to build out its platform.

Hospitals 130

Hospitals 130

Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 25, 2024

Creating additional space for nursing mothers can be challenging in small pharmacies

131

131

STAT

JANUARY 12, 2023

Although the 7,000 New York City nurses who went on strike this week reached a deal with their health systems on Jan. 12, nurse staffing levels will continue to be a problem in New York City and in hospitals across the country. It’s a strategy that many nurses like me find all too familiar. Read the rest…

Hospitals 100

Hospitals 100

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 5, 2024

Provider organizations that keep a handle on their nurse managers’ workloads are rewarded with significantly lower registered nurse turnover and reduced workforce spending, according to a recent re | New data make a financial case for splitting up nursing teams or hiring assistant nurse managers to shoulder nurse leaders' burden.

77

77

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 23, 2024

Medicaid managed care plans and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will be subject to new wait time standards and quality ratings requirements, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid S | CMS defended implementing stronger rules over nursing home staffing as well as explained its thoughts behind Medicaid access and managed care rules.

Nursing Homes 97

Nursing Homes Insurance 97

STAT

MARCH 13, 2024

Speaking before a virtual audience of CommonSpirit Health employees, RaDonda Vaught, the former nurse who accidentally killed a patient by administering the wrong medication, listed the outside factors she claims contributed to her fatal error.

Medication Dispensing 118

Medication Dispensing Hospitals 118

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2024

Despite challenges with compensation, staffing shortages, safety and more, most nurses want to remain in the field until retirement, a new report found. |

Hospitals 107

Hospitals 107

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 8, 2024

Patient experience monitoring company Press Ganey has taken its data integration partnership with Epic a step further, unveiling Monday an additional collaboration focused on nursing-related safety | Indicators and outcomes logged in the EHR platform will be pulled into Press Ganey's National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, which is used (..)

84

84

STAT

MARCH 1, 2024

CommonSpirit Health is hosting an educational event this month featuring RaDonda Vaught, the Tennessee nurse who was criminally prosecuted for accidentally killing a patient by injecting the wrong medication. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

Hospitals 110

Hospitals 110

Pharmacy Times

MAY 22, 2023

Supportive nurse managers and supervisors as well as nurses’ involvement in organizational governance may help lower hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection in acute care hospitals.

Hospitals 132

Hospitals 132

OctariusRx

MAY 7, 2023

Happy National Nurses Week to all our nursing colleagues, clients, friends, and family. National Nurses Week is from Saturday May 6 th through May 12th, Florence Nightingale ’s birthday. As usual, the OctariusRx team is taking time to recognize and celebrate all the contributions and sacrifices nurses make daily.

71

71

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 1, 2022

UnitedHealth, American Nurses Foundation team on pilot to tackle nurse burnout. Thu, 12/01/2022 - 16:56.

119

119

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) is a healthcare provider that delivers care to women throughout all stages of their lives. While they are similar in some ways to Labor & Delivery nurses (L&D) and OBGYNs, CNMs have a unique role in the lives of women. What is the Role of a Certified Nurse-Midwife?

Hospitals 98

Hospitals 98

STAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Jobs in health care are known to be challenging for workers’ mental health. million employed people (both within the health care field and outside) observed from 2008 to 2019.

141

141

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for increased oversight of the sector, according to | The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for (..)

Nursing Homes 94

Nursing Homes 94

Omnicell

JANUARY 12, 2023

Kristine Shepherd, MSN, RN Nurse Consultant, Omnicell Point of Care Solutions $7.1 That’s what an average US hospital loses due to nursing turnover, according to the 2022 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report. For many nurses, direct patient care is at the heart of meaningful work. million annually.

Omnicell 84

Omnicell Controlled Substances Hospitals Patient Care 84

Omnicell

JANUARY 10, 2023

Ken Perez Vice President, Healthcare Policy and Government Affairs According to a recent survey from the American Nurses Foundation (ANF), 23 percent of those nurses surveyed planned to quit their jobs in six months. 2022 , the ANF examined outcomes and the further impact of the pandemic on nurses. According to the U.S.

Omnicell 96

Omnicell 96

Pharmafile

MAY 13, 2024

Both awards are open for entry until 17 May 2024 and the live awards ceremony will take place on 11 July 2024 PharmaTimes is excited to announce the re-launch of two exciting awards: the Medical & Scientific Awards (MSEA) and the Nursing Industry Excellence Awards (NIEA), which will both culminate in an awards ceremony on […] The post PharmaTimes (..)

52

52

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Healthcare employers aren't doing enough to protect nurses from violence in the workplace, according to a new report. Healthcare employers aren't doing enough to protect nurses from violence in the workplace, according to a new report.

77

77

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 20, 2023

About 1,800 of Providence’s Oregon nurses and clinicians are on strike this week amid contract negotiations, prompting the health system to cut back some services at its facilities to preserve capa | Contract disagreements led 1,800 union nurses to the picket lines this week.

Hospitals 107

Hospitals 107

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 4, 2023

New Jersey’s largest academic medical center has reached a tentative agreement with a union representing about 1,700 of its nurses to end a four-month strike. | The labor dispute over pay and staffing held about 1,700 nurses without pay or benefits and drew the attention of top U.S. health policy legislators.

92

92

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

I have been a nurse practitioner (NP) in the adult cardiovascular surgical intensive care unit (CVICU) for over four years, and I often get asked how I was able to begin working there as a new NP. Earn Your Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certification. Programs that contain this specific coursework are in nursing specific degrees.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals 98

Omnicell

JANUARY 10, 2023

Simplifying medication retrieval allows nurses to focus on the patient, not the technology. Standardizing an interoperability solution that supports information exchange creates better medication management practices for nurses and improved patient engagement. The remote waste feature is a significant game changer for nurses.

Omnicell 98

Omnicell Cerner Medication Dispensing Documentation 98

Med Ed 101

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

With some help from some great students, I have put together a few hundred free nursing pharmacology questions. I just wanted to provide a resource to my nursing friends! There is no sign up required.

52

52

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Nurse staffing app connectRN pulls $76M to empower nurses with flexible shifts, career development. Fri, 12/10/2021 - 10:54.

111

111

STAT

JANUARY 18, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes’ abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in patients.

Nursing Homes 105

Nursing Homes 105

STAT

JULY 19, 2023

“Y ou can’t pour from an empty cup” is what registered nurse Tara Rynders learned the hard way after two decades of work and one heartbreaking, life-threatening experience of being a critical care patient herself. Read the rest…

94

94

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership. | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership.

Nursing Homes 63

Nursing Homes 63

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 14, 2023

About 800,000 nurses planning to leave the profession by 2027, data show dmuoio Fri, 04/14/2023 - 14:25

137

137

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

New Jefferson Health program enables clinical, academic nurses to partner on research agliadkovskaya Wed, 01/18/2023 - 14:16

135

135