Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Department of Agriculture Rural Development, which it will use to build out its virtual inpatient nursing program. "When we find innovative ways to build a work environment where nurses are engaged and working to the top of their skill set, our patients benefit too," she added.

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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 (..)

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 15, 2024

Shiv Rao, CEO and co-founder of AI notetaking company Abridge, discusses the company’s product geared toward nurses and what’s next for the documentation market.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 30, 2023

The bill mirrors California’s nurse staffing law which took effect in 2004 and outlines exactly how many patients a nurse in specific hospital units can care for at one time.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 17, 2024

International workers’ high demand for employment-based immigrant visas has led the State Department to effectively cut off the flow of green cards for skilled workers, including nurses, for the re | "This latest visa freeze halts the flow of qualified international nurses when American hospitals need them most, and the only way to correct it (..)

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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.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 14, 2024

COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals with fewer nursing resources prior to and during the early pandemic were significantly less likely to survive their illness, a recent study found. |

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Hospitals and nursing unions clash on what’s driving sluggish application rates for open registered nurse positions at hospitals — a lack of qualified candidates or a lack of interest.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 6, 2022

After threatening to wage a two-day strike, nurses and nurse practitioners at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Northern California ratified a deal with the system that includes the addition of more than 2,000 new nursing positions.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 23, 2024

According to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study, 65-90% of nursing home residents have a mental health disorder, including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. assisted living, skilled nursing, and group homes).

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 23, 2024

The rule places more stringent staffing requirements on nursing homes than those initially proposed and offers exemptions for certain providers. Still, interest groups on all sides slammed the rule, calling it either too stringent or lax.

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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. |

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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.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 6, 2024

Building a sustainable nursing workforce requires more than just filling vacancies. How can we prepare and support new nurse graduates to develop a competent and resilient nursing workforce?

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

“I could immediately see the power of having technology that would support the delivery of not only nursing but overall patient care,” Percival explains. Percival is a great believer that nursing staff should be involved throughout the entire lifecycle of the technology, from inception through to optimisation.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2023

A new study, led by health policy researchers from Rand Corporation, and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, surveyed pediatric nurses at an urban children's hospital to assess the factors that may or may not be contributing to feelings of burnout. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Only 40% of nursing homes nationwide complied with reporting requirements between 2016 and 2021, despite nursing homes being among the most dangerous workplaces in America, according to the Health Affairs study.

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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.

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Nursing 186

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 18, 2024

Union nurses across six of Providence’s Oregon hospitals kicked off a three-day strike early Tuesday morning, though they may have to wait a few days longer before returning to their posts. | The Oregon Nurses Association, which represents the 3,000 striking nurses, have alleged violations of the state's newly active Safe Staffing Law.

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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 (..)

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The final rule comes in response to growing concerns about the role of private equity firm ownership in nursing homes.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 2, 2024

The technology’s potential is fueling an array of investments and innovations in everything from cancer diagnosis to AI nurses. With respect to AI nurses, many believe this application is the only way to ease the industry’s staffing shortages. And with careful deployment, they support the oath of “first, do no harm.”

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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.

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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 (..)

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Health Care Dive

JULY 29, 2024

Lawmakers must uphold minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes to ensure quality care for the elderly, argues one legal expert.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 6, 2024

The results suggest job dissatisfaction is still high among nurses, and turnover is likely to remain elevated.

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Nursing 309

Health Care Dive

JUNE 28, 2023

At least 18 states have introduced or advanced safe staffing bills this year in an effort to reduce nurse burnout and improve the quality of patient care, but hospital groups are resisting.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 11, 2022

By adapting new tactics, building more flexible ways to credential new nurses and making academic progression more accessible, learning institutions can take critical steps to strengthen America's core of nurses, the authors argue.

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Nursing 310

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.

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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.

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Nursing 257

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology. The module comprises a virtual patient avatar with which nurses can practice talking; a 3D-printed hand which mimics the texture of human skin; and a pressure sensor glove that gauges the pressure of cannulation.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 9, 2023

Nurses at eight hospitals originally intended to strike. Ultimately, despite continued bargaining over the weekend, two failed to reach deals in time to stop nurses from walking off the job.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In over half of states, less than a quarter of nursing facilities would meet staffing requirements under a proposed federal rule, according to a new KFF analysis.

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Nursing 319

Health Care Dive

JULY 25, 2022

The system will offer eight nurses employment and assist them and their families in getting acclimated to their new communities. Nurses will be committed to their roles for at least two years.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Animosity is also growing between core nursing staff and traveling nurses who are often contracted to do the same work for much higher pay, staffing firm Aya Healthcare said.

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